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"David Mamet full of himself? Well, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff told a great story (on NPR's Fresh Air, I think) a few years ago about Mamet: shortly after becoming cartoon editor, Mankoff got a smarmy letter from Mamet congratulating him on..." [
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"Who's the dead grandmother?
posted by Dr-Baa at 3:50 PM on September 25 [+] [!]
Duh. 9/11 is the dead grandmother." [
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"Older generation:
- Ursula LeGuin (many classics like The Dispossed and Left Hand of Darkness; still prolific)
- Joanna Russ (70s angry feminist, brilliant but controversial; Female Man in particular)
- James Tiptree Jr (real name Alice Sheldon;..." [
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"Looking at your profile, your previous posts suggest you're not only new to Chicago, but also to urban life in general. Which makes me wonder if there might not be some kind of "urban survival" class you and your partner could take (content..." [
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"Don't rush things and pace yourself. You're infatuated, understandably, since it sounds like you've been culturally isolated. She may be the one, but take the necessary weeks and months to let that fact develop. If you get too serious too fast you..." [
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"Call me old-fashioned, but the fact you keep referencing your "soul" as a part of you that was injured during interactions in an on-line forum suggests to me that you might need to take the internets a little less seriously, take a time-out...." [
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"I think those who are implying an action has to be a deliberate insult in order to be racist don't actually understand what racism is and how it works. You're a racist if you think a person's race should affect your value judgment of them as a person...." [
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"Those interested in 20th c. British poetry and who don't require traditional meter or rhyme might also try out Basil Bunting, Tom Raworth, Geraldine Monk, Maggie O'Sullivan, Bob Cobbing, Bill Griffiths, Edwin Morgan, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Eavan..." [
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"I was just in Vegas and I have a few probably idiosyncratic quick tips: 1) Be very aware that things on the Strip will be much farther apart than you think they will be. Each of those "blocks" on the handy maps you come across are like 1/4..." [
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"micayetoca: I guess it is a little inappropriate to hope that the Dalai Lama is healthy and pulls through, since everyone is destined to die.
Not really. Tibetan Buddhists actually spend a fair amount of time praying and hoping that the Dalai Lama..." [
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"These guys need some marketing help.
Well, but they wouldn't be interested: PETA are extremist ideologues, not marketers or politicians, or even activists in the sense that members of the average social welfare not-for-profit group is.
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"I would think something like the New Oxford Annotated Bible (which used the New Revised Standard translation). Pretty comprehensive, though some Fundamentalists don't like it.
http://en.wikipedia...." [
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"I think this question, which pops up every few months here, merits a bit more thought than the common response, "X [often Dune or some Heinlein or Niven title] is a classic of the genre, make her read that."
Author and critic Samuel..." [
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