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Monthly Archives: January 2006

Ready for my breakdown

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock
I’m ready for my nervous breakdown, Mr. DeMille
Saturday, Jan. 29, 2006. Modern science, specifically that financed by pharmaceutical companies, continually comes up with new medicines, new cures or at least new treatments for symptoms. That’s why they whine about government or anything else that slows them down. Lives could be saved, [...]

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Excuse 7.5, 7.23

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Excuse 7.5
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006. Below I fibbed. I’m not procrastinating. I’m changing my Web host to one that for the same monthly fee as the current one also has doodads that will allow me a fully functioning blog. I didn’t want the near-former contractor to know until some of the paperwork was signed. It’s [...]

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Difference between fiction, fact

Friday, January 13, 2006

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The difference between fiction and fact
Friday 13 January 2006. I won’t do them the favor of hyperlinking these memoirists, James Frey and JT LeRoy. But there’s the names and here’s a news search engine. Memoirs are autobiographies and factual. The books by these men have been outed as not being altogether [...]

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Bad lessons for writers

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock
Tuesday 10 January 2006. P.J. O’Rourke, in reviewing the novel Dog Days by Ana Marie "Wonkette" Cox last Sunday for The Washington Post, wrote:
"Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words ‘Write what you know’ is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, [...]

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Surpassing expectations, Ltd.

Wednesday, January 4, 2006

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock
Surpassing expectations by accepting limits
Wednesday 4 January 2006. Last issue, The New Yorker praised James Agee. Actually, it was New Yorker movie critic David Denby. (If I don’t always agree with Denby, he’s about the only current writer who every once in a while drops in a sentence or a paragraph [...]

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Neigh, Justice

Sunday, January 1, 2006

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock
Justice for horses
Sunday, Jan. 1, 2006. NEWS ITEM — Fayetteville High’s band is scheduled Monday to march two places behind the Rose Parade’s grand marshal, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
They’ll find it easier to stay in step than me. In Fort Smith parades, my high school’s band always marched [...]

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