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Quotations of the Week
I thought I’d share with you some of the quotes I’ve been posting this week from my commonplace blog. If you like what you read, check out Thoughtful Cacophony. Motivational Monday – I always start out the week with a motivational quote. “It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, from which your greatest successes be…
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What’s the Big Deal?
There’s a television in my classroom but I rarely use it. I will occasionally show videos to enhance the curriculum, but most of the time, the television stays off to the corner of my room collecting dust. I didn’t even know that I could use it to tune in any stations until today. I wanted…
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Revision is Tough
I don’t use outlines when I write. I just get an idea, let it cook in my head for a while, and then start writing. I then take a bit of a break before moving on to my next writing project. After I have given myself some distance from the story, I go back and…
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What’s He Look Like?
Is it important what a character looks like? When reading fiction, we can’t really see the characters anyway. Some writers will write pages and pages filled with physical description but is this really necessary? As a reader, I build up a vision of the characters in my mind. I do this with my own imagination.…
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O My – Enough is Enough
I am getting really tired of Obama-mania. Everywhere you turn there is some special Obama related product. Barack Obama’s image is ending up in the weirdest places. There are T-shirts, hats, scarves, cookies, mugs, and other not so typical pieces of merchandise. Earlier this week I saw a news story about special Obama Beaver Tails.…
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Time Warp
It’s like science fiction. I have this machine at my house that steals my time. Time seems to warp or bend so that hours fly by and nothing gets done. I used to use my computer for productive things. I would pre-write blog entries to maximize the limited amount of Internet time I could get…
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Everyone Wants to Be Joan
I don’t watch a lot of TV, but often when I watch a new program, I immediately compare it to another one that I’ve seen. Some shows are obviously built upon the successes of others. This is okay. My So-Called Life paved the way for shows that accurately depict the life of teenagers. I remember…
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Journal Vs Blog
Last year, I wrote 250 blog entries. Do the math. 250 entries divided by 365 days in the year = a 68.5% efficiency. That number is misleading though since my goal was to write a blog entry every weekday. So let’s revise the numbers 52 weeks in a year times 5 days a week =…
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Keepers Vol. 1
I think this was the first real mix tape that I ever made. I made it especially for a New Year’s Eve Party I was throwing in 1996. I made a few tapes so that I could just let the tape play and entertain my guest at the house party. I don’t have a scanner…
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Love is a Mix tape
I love mix tapes. I used to make them all the time. I made tapes off of the radio. I taped my favourite songs from a variety of different tapes or records. And then I got really serious about it. I bought a mixer and used my CD walkman and my regular mini-component system to…