If you have not encountered it yet, do read
( Ta-Nehisi Coates' cover story in this month's Atlantic )

( Ta-Nehisi Coates on civil rights, Shirley Sherrod and Andrew Breitbart )

My veterinary assistant class? We're supposed to do online work, mostly consisting of having discussions with each other on a (very poorly designed) discussion board. After 5 days, a whopping 2 of us bothered to post there, myself and the only other over-30 student. My 500 word post was rejected by the course instructor as unacceptable. Why? I used ( Read more... )

( Recently retired NHLer Wade Belak committed suicide yesterday. )

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

It occurred to me that since the writing I submitted first was some years old, and most of my writing these days is blog, that I should try submitting a blog entry. Took the longest one from the last 2 weeks. This is the result.

I have never heard of Chuck Palahniuk...

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

How ironic...or maybe not. I've read so much King (everything up until about 10 years ago, sporadically since then) that I probably shouldn't be at all surprised. BTW, my writing sample was from an essay I wrote about being an extra in a film 8 years ago. I don't think I've ( Read more... )