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I’ve never met a writer who is okay and I wouldn’t want to. Not being okay is what drives a writer to write – bringing structure to the chaos in their minds, form to brooding, meaning from the absurdity of existence, release from the pent up anger at being criticised for wearing ...
I connected this with conversations I’ve had over the many years with other writers and editors — people, most of them women, who make their living in the word trades. A startling number of us seem to have gone through a stage where we couldn’t write, didn’t write, thought we wer...
They decided to write their paper on why they loved living in Georgia. I love living in Georgia! The sunsets are beautiful. The peanuts and cotton smell like heaven. Everyone is so sweet down here. Sweet as sweet tea. And the BBQ is so good it makes you wanna slap ya mama. AMEN ...
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“America,” Hickey wrote, “is a very poor lens through which to view Las Vegas, while Las Vegas is a wonderful lens through which to view America. What is hidden elsewhere exists here in quotidian visibility.” Or as Brent Holmes put it, “Las Vegas is the easiest town to write abou...
Leslie Nielsen’s deadpan delivery comes after the perfect set-up, “Surely you can’t be serious.”“Airplane’s” slapstick silliness reveled in wordplay and sight gags, but popular culture fell in love with this line as the ideal rejoinder to use upon hearing “surely.” ...
History, he writes, teaches that governments should not run everything themselves. But governments have to use their power and the right policy tools to make private entrepreneurs do what industrial development requires. The third intervention necessary for accelerated development is in the financial ...
Companies should offer more flexible training for all their workers, both staff and freelance. At many companies, management is reluctant to do this. What if we raise the skill levels of our people and then they just leave for a competitor, they ask? The rejoinder is simple: What if you ...
it’s almost like there are no platforms that stand toe to toe with the likes of The Guardian or Punch which have been in the spotlight for forty to fifty years doing hardcore music journalism. My rejoinder to them is that any news platform in the world has a healthy contingent of cultur...