0753 by Jeff Hess
Robert Reich writes:
The reality is this: Big American companies may never rehire large numbers of workers. And they won’t even begin to think about hiring until they know American consumers will buy their products. The problem is, American consumers won’t start buying against until they know they have reliable paychecks.
Such is the power of low-wage capitalism.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Never worry about the commercial possibilities of a project. That stuff is for agents and editors to fret over – or not. Conversation with my American publisher. Me: “I’m writing a book so boring, of such limited commercial appeal, that if you publish it, it will probably cost you your job.” Publisher: “That’s exactly what makes me want to stay in my job.” Geoff Dyer
Ten rules for writing fiction from The Guardian.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Finish the day’s writing when you still want to continue. Helen Dunmore
Ten rules for writing fiction from The Guardian.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide. Roddy Doyle
Ten rules for writing fiction from The Guardian.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
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0755 by Jeff Hess
From Sherry Chandler:
I’ll be the featured guest this week on Sheri L. Wright’s From the Inkwell, an hour of talk about poetry and prose that broadcasts Saturdays at 1:00 pm from Crescent Hill Radio, 1650 on your AM dial or livestreaming.
Sheri and I had a big time chatting in the free-form conversation that she likes to carry on with these shows. I hope, along in there somewhere, I made some sense. I did read a couple of poems.
I am so looking forward to this.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren’t they just stale bread to begin with?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils. Margaret Atwood
Ten rules for writing fiction from The Guardian.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
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2130 by Jeff Hess
Development is the operative word when considering the political arm of the State Peace and Development Council: the Union Solidarity and Development Association Party, rolled out by Myanmar’s military dictators at the end of April as they prepare to engineer a perfect win for themselves if they deem to hold elections in the fall.
From The Irrawaddy:
Burma’s pro-government Union Solidarity and Development Party is reportedly conducting its own census in an apparent effort to influence the result of the general election.
The development, reported in various Burmese townships, was described as “strange and unheard of in any electoral process in the world” by Bidhayak Das, an international observer with the Asian Network for Free Elections.
ANFREL, established in 1997, is a regional network of civil society organizations that strives to promote and support democratization at national and regional levels in Asia.
Bidhayak, also a freelance political columnist, said in an email to The Irrawaddy:
“It is the duty of the Election Commission to do anything with collecting census or family lists for advance voting. Political parties or any other groups, even governmental agencies other than the Election Commission, are not allowed by law to do this job.
“Collecting votes by a political party certainly does not augur well for paving the way for free and fair elections. These allegations must be verified and if found true then should be brought to the notice of the Election Commission.”
Short of invasion, occupation and war crime trials, or, preferably, revolution, nothing phases these dictators.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Read aloud to yourself because that’s the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK (prose rhythms are too complex and subtle to be thought out – they can be got right only by ear). Diana Athill
Ten rules for writing fiction from The Guardian.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
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