May 28, 2009
“ I don’t want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth. Hello Kitty can’t even say hi back to you after you say ‘Hello, Kitty!’
Margaret Cho •
December 11, 2008
“ To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson •
December 3, 2008
How to Let the Recession Kill Your Freelance Business - Quiet Rebel Writer

Tee hee hee

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December 2, 2008
globeandmail.com: The heartbreaking truth about Anne's creator

It turns out that Lucy Maud Montgomery died by suicide. So wild, so sad. The work stretches back and forward.

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indieWIRE: FIRST PERSON | "7 Days in September" Director Steven Rosenbaum on "The 9/11 Generation"
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December 1, 2008
Filmmaker Magazine: notes on a panel with Gotham Breakthrough Directors

Great write-up by Scott Macaulay of the similarities and differences of these 5 directors

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November 24, 2008
“ I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin •
November 16, 2008

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November 14, 2008

I love NaNoWriMo

Sample thread titles in the “Character & Plot Realism Q&A” section of the forums:

If someone had a fair amount of flesh skinned from their neck…

So, without going profane, how do atheists express shock/horror?

Where would one find a high concentration of orphans these days?

what do girls normally wear to sleep?

Snakes at Chuck E Cheese

What are the chances that if you dropped a rock on top of a copper inkwell, it would break?

Truly incredible. I love the human imagination when it’s allowed to run free.

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November 2, 2008
“ Words like hope, change and progress might seem like naïve campaign sloganeering in a dark age. But think of the way those words ring for a people whose forebears marched into billy clubs and dogs, whose ancestors fled north by starlight, feeling the moss on the backs of trees.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, in TIME Magazine •