Category: Shaking My Head
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Post #92: This Will Only Hurt a Lot
I got a very polite rejection yesterday from The Florida Review. They apologized for the delay in responding, contextualized the long wait around some editorial and personal changes, yadda yadda yadda, told me they’d found my story “Unsayable Things” engaging, but that it didn’t meet their editorial needs at this…
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Post #90: Control
I can’t deny I’ve thought about that moment many times. December 8th, 1980. John Lennon had just come back from the recording studio, had just emerged from his limo and was walking through the arched doorway of the Dakota building, an arm full of cassettes, when Mark David Chapman emerged…
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Post #87: You See!
So, you know how last entry I was talking about that new magazine Kindling Quarterly and about perceptions of men and fatherhood and how they’re represented and perpetuated in the culture and how it all kind of pisses me off? This morning, I took my kids to the dentist. We…
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Post #79: If I had Any Feelings Left, I’d Probably Hate Lance Armstrong
Been puzzling over how to feel about Lance Armstrong. And the only word that’s approaching any kind of accuracy and truth for those feelings is: numb. That’s all. I don’t feel much of anything about it. It’s just what’s next. The coverage comes at me like a rogue wave but…
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Post #77: Haunted
I was at the post office the other day. The line was painfully long, crawling in fact. All I needed was stamps. I was kicking myself for not having ordered them online ahead of time and saved myself the torture. It was a week before Christmas and all around me…
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Post #75: C’mon!!
If you didn’t know, it’s Potentially Irrational Rant Day here at The Almost Right Words in which I bitch about the following: Earlier this year, I read, demolished is more like it, Cheryl Strayed’s wildly celebrated and wildly wonderful memoir Wild, about her solo trek up the Pacific Crest Trail.…
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Post #74: Newsweek’s News
Newsweek, the iconic news magazine that, courtesy of my grandmother, has been arriving weekly at my door for over a decade now will, as of December 31st, only be arriving at my Ipad. Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown confirmed the rumor that Newsweek is going all digital. “We are transitioning Newsweek, not…
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Post #72: Pure Bliss
A skateboarder was in the middle of the road when I turned the corner, spinning himself in rapid circles (technical term anyone?) like a figure skater. When his momentum would lag, he’d stop, quick rotate by jerking his body sideways and begin spinning again, the board at forty-five degrees, all…
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Post #63: Is This What Progress Looks Like?
If you watched the Olympics, and I’m betting you watched at least a little, you saw commercials for a new NBC (Jimmy Fallon produced) comedy called Guys With Kids in which a supposedly modern trio of men take care of babies and, not knowing any better because they’re really just…
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Post #61: Some Kind of Jackass
I just came across this piece on Huff Post entitled “10 Books that Taught me Reading Books is Bullshit.” Now, as a vociferous reader and book obsessive, I’m fully willing to admit that I was a little biased against comedian/author Dan Wilbur’s premise, which he’s expanded on in a book…
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