Monthly Archives: June 2003

GARRISON KEILLOR ON WRITING, SORT OF

The latest Atlantic Online has a marvelous satiric short story by Garrison Keillor about a writer of dubious talent. In the story, the writer has a meeting with Wallace Shawn, editor of the New Yorker, and gets this priceless piece … Continue reading

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ANOTHER GREAT CARTOON FROM LEE LORENZ

“I just said ‘Open sesame,’ and there they were.” The always amazing Lee Lorenz does it again. This is from this week’s New Yorker. You can buy Lee’s brilliant work at the Cartoon Bank.

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OLD FRIENDS WHO’VE JUST MET / VIEJOS AMIGOS A LOS QUE ACABO DE CONOCER

I spent Monday and Tuesday with colleagues from six countries – Gabriela from Argentina, Dalton from Brasil, Karina from Chile, Gerardo from México, Marietta and Valerie from Barbados, and Debbie from Israel. I’d never met them before, and we all … Continue reading

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WHY THE PREDICTED TALENT SHORTAGE WILL NEVER HAPPEN

For the past week, I’ve been blogging from hotel rooms (more details on this week’s fascinating travel, with incriminating photos, when I get back home), and with the completion of Zakaria’s book, I ran out of offline reading material. So … Continue reading

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ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY: LESSONS FOR AMERICA

Fareed Zakaria’s best-seller The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a marvelous history of the global evolution of civil and economic versus political liberties, which exposes as myth the precept of many political scholars, and many … Continue reading

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WHAT THE BLOGOSPHERE NEEDS MORE OF

Since it’s free, the blogosphere is inherently not a ‘free market’ of ideas, creations and perspectives. There is supply and demand, of course, but there is an oversupply of stuff that is easy to produce and self-indulgent (no criticism intended … Continue reading

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COMMENCEMENT

Here are some excerpts from Tony Kushner’s commencement address to Columbia College, courtesy of Alternet , because his choice and stringing-together of words is so wonderful and inspiring to those of us who labour daily with the imprecision and uncooperativeness … Continue reading

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HELP YOURSELF

do what you want to, girl but be what you are there ain’t no right or wrong way just play it from the heart it ain’t a sign of weakness, girl to give yourself away because the strong give up … Continue reading

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THE STORIES BEHIND THREE GREAT INNOVATIONS

We are all by nature inventive, and ideas are cheap. The real challenge is innovation, bringing a great invention or idea to commercial fruition. It is the application of the idea that takes true genius, hard work, patience, timing, and … Continue reading

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YET MORE EXTRAORDINARY WEBLOGS

Time for How to Save the World ‘s monthly rundown of eclectic and remarkable blogs. Most of these are on the blogrolls of those on my blogroll, and if I had a self-disciplined way of tracking where I first discovered … Continue reading

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