A coffee table book about brooches, but don’t let that frivolous description stop you. Madeleine Albright, first woman secretary of state, accessorized with pins all her life, but it wasn’t until Saddam Hussein called her “an unparalleled serpent” in a poem he allegedly wrote himself that she retaliated by wearing a pin in the shape…
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Lagniappe Sunday
Alaskans, listen up. This is going to be more about us today. The Alaska state legislature is currently being bullied by our governor to pass his version of a no-tax natural gas pipeline.* In fact, as Andrew Halcro so eloquently expresses on his “With All Due Respect” podcast (which you should follow if you want…
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Random Saturday
Speaking as an Alaskan I’d have eliminated Texas, not New Mexico. xkcd (h/t Kottke)
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#thiswritinglife
Dana sez, he’s writing about visual artists but most of this is useful for writers, too. Especially Admit It’s a Business The number one mistake I see artists make is not accepting that they run a business. If you cannot accept and even embrace this simple fact, you are totally hosed. It is hard to…
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