August 2012
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How to Play "This Land is Your Land" on the... →
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by Daphne Carr
It’s important than every person get over the fear that they suck at music and learn an instrument. The guitar is an obvious choice because it is a cheap, fixed pitch instrument (they have frets) sold in abundance. It sounds full when you play alone and its easy to be mediocre at it, which is all anyone needs to be a happy amateur musician. Guitars are also portable...
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Hillary Clinton on Being Asked about Her Clothes
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Interviewer: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?
Hillary Clinton: What designers of clothes?
Interviewer: Yes.
Hillary Clinton: Would you ever ask a man that question?
Interviewer: Probably not. Probably not.
[Via UniteWomen.org]
“Since 9/11, there’s been an incredible number of incidents where photographers...”
– Criminalizing Photography - this is so important to read. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
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How Not To Write About Female Music Fans
Michael Hann, in the Guardian, about Gaslight Anthem:
The girls in the front row at the Middle East in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are gazing up at Brian Fallon, singing every word back at him.
There were no men in the audience doing the same thing? Because at most Gaslight shows I go to, the entire audience is singing every single word back at the band. And what were the men in the audience...
How to Write a Poem
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by Catherine Pond
1. Use imperatives to amplify urgency. For example: Wink. Go to bed. Open the door. Listen up, fucker. Love me again. Get it? A build-up is nice too. Do this, do that, then do this other thing which is clearly impossible and probably abstract to add texture to the language. (Note: This works in fiction too).
2. Try, every time, to...
SALLY FRANSON: How to Never Write →
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(Note: this is in response to Molly Templeton’s call for submissions for a revised How-To Issue of Times’ Book Review)
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I teach experimental nonfiction at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, and my students often fall into a particular demographic: middle-class, middle-aged women…
I guess I would just prefer that no older white guy give me suggestions on how to...
#signstobringtophilly
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How to Drive Cross-Country By Yourself →
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by Caryn Rose
Everyone should drive cross-country at least once in their life. Driving with a friend or a car full of people, it’s a life-changing experience. But by yourself, it is a moment of reckoning. Those hours and hours and hours behind the wheel with only yourself and your iPod playlist are as transformative as round-the-world travel.
The changing landscape, the weather,...
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Watchvia @yankeemeginphl, the awesomeness of an umpire tossing the guy running the sound system for playing “three blind mice”
The How-To Issue: How to Herd Sheep →
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by Siân Evans
As a girl, I never imagined that one of the things I would learn to do, in my early twenties, was herd sheep. I never really imagined my parents quitting their jobs, moving to a farm and raising livestock; although I suppose I didn’t really imagine I’d end up a librarian, either….
