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Angsty NBA Analysis. Est 2011. June 25, 2016. At the moment, the only sense I have of the Cavaliers championship celebration was the second of jubilation I saw just before I grabbed the remote control with sweaty palms, with my stomach beginning a three-day plummet into the depths … Continue reading →. I Don’t Turn Off Games. May 24, 2016. May 3, 2016. Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Friday, April 22, 2016. April 22, 2016. I feel pathetic. Read these pieces. I’ll be in the bat...I used to c...
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Hans Peterson | The Diss.
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Angsty NBA Analysis. Est 2011. Author Archives: Hans Peterson. A Postscript: An Ode to the Spurs and the Unexpected. June 25, 2013. Editor’s Note: Once again, Hans Peterson is here to deliver The Diss’ postscript to the NBA Finals. Hans is a regular contributor to The Diss. * * In case you missed it, last year I submitted a characteristically verbose reflection on the … Continue reading →. NBA Observations From a Guy who has Watched No Basketball, Pt. II. April 18, 2013. December 11, 2012. June 23, 2012.
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You, Too, Are Uprooted. | The Diss.
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Angsty NBA Analysis. Est 2011. Wild Guesses and Outlandish Speculation: Just Like Old Times! Games of the Week: October 26-November 1, 2015. →. You, Too, Are Uprooted. June 15, 2015. Jordan, Shaq, Kobe, Magic, Bird –. 8220;He’s the greatest player of his generation,”. Is joined seamlessly by. 8220;the closest thing to Michael Jordan”,. Certainly: it has been incredible to watch the Golden State Warriors compete in a series that I always thought would elude them. It has produced highs. An undefinable mael...
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Holly M. Wendt: halfway to something
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It's mid-November, and for all of the folks diligently plugging away with National Novel Writing Month, that means 25,000 words. Maybe it means having reached that mark and a little bit of triumph or a sense of security against less productive days or weeks. Maybe it means a renewed sense of determination to catch up to that fleet wordcount bird. Whatever it means, NaNo swabbers, sail on. Posted by Holly M. Wendt. Labels: my eternal battle with autumn. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Many Blogs I Like.
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Holly M. Wendt: a work in progress
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A work in progress. By the week's end, it will be November. Writers the world around are gathering themselves for National Novel Writing Month. And I, like I've done. 8212;it's about finishing a draft. I'm not worried anymore about not finishing. But, like I've said before, I'm a huge fan of getting high off everyone else's NaNoWriMo fumes, and I'm always in favor of energy turned toward writing. The novel I'm working on now was revolutionized during my time at the American Antiquarian Society. T of rese...
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Holly M. Wendt: I'm not sure it counts as fine craftsmanship, but--
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I'm not sure it counts as fine craftsmanship, but-. After a bit of inspiration yesterday from this article. I decided to break out some of the crafty things I've been saving up. Over the summer, I got turned on to book arts by the inimitable Deborah Poe. And since then I've been gathering up interesting odds and ends with the intention of making some hand-made books. I have, of course, done very little with them. This was the result:. I am generally pleased with this experiment, though, as this will make...
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Holly M. Wendt: Discovering My First Fountain Pen (Not Where I Expected It)
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Discovering My First Fountain Pen (Not Where I Expected It). Trilogy for my first read through the series) had gotten me a fountain pen—one that used cartridges—for a birthday. It might have been my sixteenth, even, or it was a gift for high school graduation—I’m ashamed to say I don’t remember what the real occasion was. Pen photographed on a bit of Japanese cloth given to me by a coworker. Nib very shiny. It says Parker across the base of the nib. The line it makes is fairly smooth, somewhere around th...
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Holly M. Wendt: resolve: verb
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The frozen feeling that stays me, the resistance that is not resistance but is fear and not a reference to a Disney movie and not a reference to the weather although it could be and I want that too. 2a : break up, separate. Also : to change by disintegration. That which I do not want, which is calcification: I will be vinegar when I must, and scour. 2b : to reduce by analysis. I observe. I assess. I proceed. 2c : to distinguish between or make independently visible adjacent parts of. Myself, to myself.
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Holly M. Wendt: magic hat
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This past weekend, we decided to go to a Hershey Bears hockey game (and you can read more about that at The Classical. Sometime next week). During the preceding days, I was on campus, working to get everything necessary for the semester settled. The process for preparing to teach four classes and direct four creative writing portfolio projects entailed three course redesigns and one curriculum revision, which was a lot, but all of it will be helpful in the long-term. I don't usually make things that can.
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Holly M. Wendt: Fiction
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Wonder at the licked-penny tang of your hand when you wipe it across your mouth, all dirty copper, the taste its own memory of scolding: what not to put in your mouth. Wonder about your last tetanus shot. Remember that you forget. Heading North (Novel Excerpt). Issue 8, The Books Issue). Jonah, The Whale. Audio available at website. Brendan glances over his shoulder at his friend, the dented Louisville Slugger at home in his hands, covered, as are Brendan’s, by last season’s batting gloves...Drunken B...
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