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Deadline stress

Folks cope with deadline stress in different ways.

Malone’s impromptu styrofoam sculpture salutes Deadline Stress…

Found this in a file box recently revisited.

Malone's impromptu styrofoam sculpture salutes Deadline Stress...

A cluttered mind…

Maintaining high standards of clutter for over 25 years: If you were on one of the student media staffs I encountered during this span your picture might well be in one of the layers of my bulletin board.

Bill Neville's photo.

Deeply felt lyrics…

Listened to Prairie Home Companion’s 2010 anthology show tonight with Arlo Guthrie as a bar owner in an episode of Guy Noir eschewing sing-alongs by intoning “This song is my song, these words, I wrote ’em, they came from inside me me, deep down from my scrotum.”

Perhaps the most creative rhyming scheme I’ve heard in a while.

My transcription is not guaranteed but I’ll remember the rhyme.

Grammatically speaking…

Grammar lesson du jour. Did not know this phenomenon was called the grocer’s apostrophe?

Apostrophe Catastrophes : CJR

We’ve all seen it and cringed: The sign advertising “Antique’s for Sale,” the one in the supermarket boasting about it’s “fresh cucumber’s,” or the sign on the neighbor’s house saying “Welcome to the Smith’s.” Few among us (or so we hope) don’t know that those are wrong.

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