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HarvardGate — A Scandal in the Making? [by Molly Arden]
Our old friend Molly Arden e-mails us to ask "whether anyone knows the real skinny on the Henry Louis Gates affair — or HarvardGate as some have dubbed it." Asked to summarize what she…
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Hakuna Matata [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, Another Wednesday skulked away and snuck off with your due post, due West, thataway twards thursday. One way I manage my modern life is by quitting word stitching at 6pm whether…
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All Work and No Play: Quiz for the Day
Everyone knows that the greatest spoof of experimental poetry in the history of movies is in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." It's when Shelley Duval leafs through the writing her husband (Jack Nicholson, left) has…
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Shave and a Haircut by Richard Garcia
I always get (what is left of) my hair cut at Tim’s. Frankly, it is not because of Tim’s skill with the scissors. I go because Tim is a good storyteller. And the men…
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Shave & a haircut [by Richard Garcia]
I always get (what is left of) my hair cut at Tim’s. Frankly, it is not because of Tim’s skill with the scissors. I go because Tim is a good storyteller. And the men…
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Name the Poet
Quiz question of the night: "I will control myself, or go inside.I will not flaw perfection with my grief.Handsome, this day, no matter who has died." These three lines of a poem, circled in…
