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Tomorrow is October, and you know what that means. Just to get everyone in the mood, I whipped up a few countdown calendar wallpapers for all my National Novel Writing Month folk. Just click on the picture and download away. I'll be slinging typeba...
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Read about 229 Spring Street Since Strikethru threw down the gauntlet and asked us to dream up our own writing shacks,I thought I'd play along. This was easy, because I picked out this Dream Shack a few weeks ago while visiting Eureka Springs, AR a...
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U.S. National Archives Elvis got that haircut at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. There's a nifty tourist shrine to the whole event at the Fort Chaffee Barbershop Museum. But that's not the point, really. The important thing is that, in a fit o...
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And this is how to negotiate a poem: Visit the Poetry Depot page at the Miami Poetry Collective. Tallulah the Royal Futura...
The Typewriter (In the 21st Century) Directed by: Christopher Lockett Produced by: Gary Nicholson Coming Fall 2012 Please tell me I'm not the last person to know about this. Look at all the familiar faces and names in this trailer. The typospher...
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Megan Chapman at Art Maven Having recently risen from a two year paper-grading-induced coma, I started poking around in my feedreader to see what I had missed. Quite a bit, it turns out. Megan Chapman, one of my favorite Arkansas artists, created...
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So I guess it's been a while. Because the reasons are neither dramatic nor interesting, let's put that aside for a bit and focus instead on my new gadget. It's not a typewriter. It's not even cutting edge, since I'm certainly the last reader on the...