Last paragraph of Court Briefs of a recent edition of the
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A 21st-century blog
This should start things off. Brick began in December 2003, part of
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Ready for my breakdown
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 […]
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Excuse 7.5, 7.23
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. […]
Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock 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 […]
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Bad lessons for writers
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, […]