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Thursday night at St. Bonaventure

nobody@vox.com(davemystery) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:58:40 -0800

We are having fun here. It's chilly and rainy, but Kassnoff's blowing hot air in the classroom.

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Thoughts for a Tuesday

nobody@vox.com(davemystery) — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:47:32 -0700

CK graduates from university this coming weekend. She'll be back on the plantation for a month, then off to who knows where. Unsettling. I'm off to Detroit in a few days for a business conference. Driving a van full of exhibit display pieces acro...

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This is award-worthy?

nobody@vox.com(davemystery) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:07:29 -0800

Watching any award show except the Oscars has become tedious. Especially music award telecasts. Too much shrieking from the audience. Too many drunken or unprepared "presenters." (Tip: there are cue cards, genius. You have to be able to read 'em. ...

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Contest: What's in your pencil drawer?

nobody@vox.com(davemystery) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:44:33 -0800

For some people, the very thought of a "pencil" is an anachronism. I disagree. But in the all-web, all-the-time workplace, the question you should think about is: What's in your pencil drawer? Sanitized for your protection. The film canister d...

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The lost box of commas -- a year of women writers

nobody@vox.com(davemystery) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:46:07 -0800

I promised to read mostly books by women in 2009. I don't do "resolutions," but there are books I wanted to spend time with. Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad About My Neck reminded me of what Sally from "When Harry Met Sally" might sound like as a 60-ye...

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Furlough's over - back to aimless pontificating

nobody@vox.com(davemystery) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:43:03 -0800

Where have I been? Editing the last few chapters of my novel. The storytelling's pretty much completed. It's mostly punctuation and proofreading now. Although there may be a hidden message when I see where I've written: "She turned his head." Q...

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Redford sent me to follow the money

nobody@vox.com(davemystery) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:02:00 -0800

When I went off to St. Bonaventure University, I was one of 65,000 incoming freshmen across the U.S. who signed up for a career in journalism. Presumably, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman were culpable in inspiring thousands of would-be muck-rak...

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Setting free the VHS

nobody@vox.com(davemystery) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:52:20 -0800

We're getting rid of the VHS tapes. Somehow, in the 1980s, we got the idea that home-taped episodes of Star Trek: the Next Generation and Spenser: for Hire would last forever. Boy, were we wrong. Way wrong. I must have had a thing for TV series...

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Au revoir, voice mail

nobody@vox.com(davemystery) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:30:24 -0800

My employer announced this week that they were doing away with the traditional voicemail system at the company. That's it. There's a phone at my desk, but if I'm not there to answer, it'll just keep on ringing. Our office had a laugh about this....

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Ralph was here

nobody@vox.com(davemystery) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:07:32 -0800

No one does this anymore. Maybe it's the lower blood-alcohol limits most states use in DUI cases. But in the days when I toiled at an ad agency, we had a colleague named Ralph. And every Wednesday before Thanksgiving, he would come around with th...

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