October 2011
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One must have a mind of winter
Items found in my coat after putting it on for the first time since March
- A dry erase marker
- One dollar
- Two passport photos of myself
- A pack of tissues
- A business card for Marrakesh restaurant
- One un-sharpened pencil
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For the first time in my life I was finding Washington beautiful. When I was a...
– John Dos Passos, State of the Nation
People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t...
– Lemony Snicket
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Williams had a remarkable voice, and he wrote, or borrowed, precisely the right...
– Andrew Romano, “The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams”
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When I ask friends in Washington, “What would you do without the NBA for a whole...
– Mike Wise, “NBA Lockout: Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing”
This is one of the best pieces I have read about the NBA lockout (and I have read a shameful number of lockout articles), if only because it recognizes that the NBA is about as popular as Congress.
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