I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
4051 Saint-André
Montreal, Quebec
Metro: Mont-Royal, Sherbrooke
Bus: STM 11, 14, 24, 29, 30, 97, 144, 427
Visit: February 2, 2012
http://atlaspizza.ca/
I know what you’re thinking, why on Earth would I do a burger so soon after nearly drowning myself in poutine just 2 days ago? Well, I’m crazy. More seriously, after a slow month of January, I felt it was time to make sure I was back on track. If that meant pulling overtime on bacon cheeseburgers, so be it. So, on this beautiful day, I was off to find another burger that no one ever really thinks about.
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HOW TO BECOME A WRITER by Lorrie Moore
First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star/astronaut. A movie star missionary. A movie star/kindergarten teacher. President of the World. Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age — say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire. It is a pond, a cherry blossom, a wind brushing against sparrow wing leaving for mountain. Count the syllables. Show it to your mom. She is touch and practical. She has a son in Vietnam and a husband who may be having an affair. She believes in wearing brown because it hides spots. She’ll look briefly at your writing, then back up at you with a face blank as a donut. She’ll say: “How about emptying the dishwasher?” Look away. Shove the forks in the fork drawer. Accidentally break one of the freebie gas station glasses. This is the required pain and suffering. This is only for starters…”
READ MORE: http://www.ninetymeetingsinninetydays.com/lorriemooore.html
Lorrie Moore is one of my literary treasures. I first read her short story “How To Be An Other Woman” in the collection My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead (definite must-have), and I’ve been hooked ever since. Read what she has to say. Follow it even.
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One of the limitations of the iPhone 4S’s intelligent assistant Siri is its inability to speak your tweets into the iPhone’s Twitter app. Here’s a quick workaround for that.
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