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ing artists this subhead in slate takes the prize for wicked irony okay now it s your turn share your thoughts send your favorite headlines or just tell us about your bad hair day if you d prefer we like hearing from you no matter what the message might be you can also bathe in headline nostalgia by review earlier favorite headlines here posted by john ettorre 7 11 am 3 comments saturday february 13 2010 is your reader inside your mind my own favorite writer of essays is emerson why is this because he writes as if i am inside his mind a mind that is as robert richardson expressed it on fire the poet mary oliver from her introduction to the best american essays 2009 posted by john ettorre 8 09 am 8 comments friday february 12 2010 a voice tumbling into your ear prose should have a flow the forward momentum of a certain energized weight it should feel like a voice tumbling into your ear the late john updike in perhaps his last published essay the writer in winter you can review earlier mentions of the literary lion here posted by john ettorre 10 04 am 3 comments thursday february 11 2010 here s something you don t always understand at first there are no shortcuts to any place worth going the late opera diva beverly sills posted by john ettorre 10 43 am 10 comments wednesday february 10 2010 employment vs freelance pros and cons if you want to make a career of writing should you look for a full time job in a company or strike out on your own as a freelancer good question i ve done both and have come to the conclusion that freelancing is what i like best i earn good money set my own hours and i don t have to deal with the stress of traffic corporate politics and an office full of idiots and suck ups oh and no ties i hate ties i work in jeans and hawaiian shirts yes i know i m wearing a tie in my publicity photos but i did it just that once and with therapy i ve recovered from the experience fairly well but that s just me i know plenty of people who prefer having a writing job working for one company they like getting a regular paycheck having a set schedule and socializing with co workers every day just because freelancing is best for me doesn t mean it s best for everyone from a recent post on the men with pens blog posted by john ettorre 6 26 am 21 comments tuesday february 09 2010 you gotta be tender tough each morning i place on my writing table a carnation and a hammer pablo neruda the chilean poet who we once called the poet laureate of love turns out he also believed in mixing a soft heart with a firm discipline for his craft but then no real surprises there anyway you can sample his poems here posted by john ettorre 4 15 pm 4 comments monday february 08 2010 catching up on the death of the author of catcher j d salinger author of catcher in the rye died recently touching off the felling of many trees in tribute we can t say we were similarly caught up in all the literary mourning to the contrary the guy has always seemed quite creepy to us with his weirdly gothic insistence on being left alone if you really want to be left alone we figure do something anything besides publish a popular book a preference for quiet and semi isolation is one thing and we share that instinct but he took it to such an extreme that it seemed to border on a mental disorder anyway gawker has a nice roundup of coverage and tributes to the late author and working with words reader and frequent commenter kass posted this nice tip of the cap to him finally we remembered this two year old piece about salinger and catcher by an aquaintance of ours anne trubek an oberlin college english professor and prolific writer her new book will soon be making its debut and she recently published this interesting piece in the american prospect about the langston hughes house the salinger piece was published in an interesting new magazine good which i hope you ll check out a little she argued that while the character holden caulfield has entered the canon as our 20th century huck finn the book doesn t really deserve the central place it still occupies in the curriculum at the very least she wrote it should share some room with more recent coming of age novels update i should have included this rave from my friend and mentor bill gunlocke who had this to say about catcher on his blog i tried this just now i opened the catcher in the rye randomly to 10 different places and read the first sentence my eyes fell upon not one wasn t interesting it didn t surprise me if it surprises you you haven t read it in a while or maybe you ve never read it there s nothing like it while you re there consider taking another couple minutes to read his thoughts on new york s decision to cut library hours posted by john ettorre 8 38 am 2 comments sunday february 07 2010 group coupons in our continuing quest to share ideas consistent with what s being called the new frugality you know how hack journalism always puts the word new in front of everything and capitalizes it all which is not really new for most people i know we thought we d note this interesting website which harnesses group purchasing power for coupon offers i haven t really checked it out much yet but plan to in the meantime i was eager to get your input does it look worthwhile to you posted by john ettorre 6 12 am 13 comments saturday february 06 2010 here s one of the best definitions we ve heard the purpose of marketing is to make selling superflous the late management guru peter drucker you can review earlier mentions of the great one here check out his many books here and learn a little about his vast intellectual legacy here posted by john ettorre 9 59 am 8 comments friday february 05 2010 busting myths with style for decades popular mechanics has been known as a prime destination for geeks but you don t have to be a geek to appreciate how well the magazine covers its subject and often in ways that speak to much larger audiences if only the audience will momentarily suspend its preconceptions of that publication this wonderful series mythbusters workshop is as good an example of that as we ve seen it s yet another reminder of how you can sometimes find great journalism and storytelling from the most unexpected sources we d love your thoughts posted by john ettorre 12 10 pm 4 comments thursday february 04 2010 our favorite blog name of the week field notes from the future has the ring of something that seems worth a look doesn t it our incessant focus on naming titling things well be they books articles or blogs may strike you as a bit much and if so please do tell us but we think that s half the battle of attracting a reader s attention in these distracted times posted by john ettorre 12 03 pm 2 comments wednesday february 03 2010 lebron to be featured in super bowl ad the advertising industry bible ad age says it s been long in the works and that it ll feature the nba s two leading physiques lebron and orlando magic center dwight howard in a reprise of the famous larry bird michael jordan commercial that ran during the 93 super bowl you can even see a brief video teaser posted by john ettorre 2 08 pm 4 comments tuesday february 02 2010 no this is not a joke headline in the onion bristol palin sets up pr firm she s 19 by the way if you re in the market for such senior level counsel do give her a call while we re ordinarily the last ones to rain on anyone s entrepreneurial dreams and believe that starting as early as possible is generally the right thing to do this does stretch things a bit posted by john ettorre 10 54 am 8 comments monday february 01 2010 meet the madoff minions more than a year after bernie madoff s massive ponzi scheme rip off culminates with his imprisonment mother jones magazine takes a look at what s happened to his inner circle since then the answer nothing much really but it got us to wondering has this story continued to resonate for you if indeed it ever did and for readers outside the u s has it succeeded in changing your view of america somehow posted by john ettorre 8 06 am 8 comments sunday january 31 2010 we can t decide if this is useful so we ask y all to help us decide visuwords uses princeton university s wordnet an opensource database built by university students and language researchers combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies visuwords is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web from the visuwords website thoughts anyone posted by john ettorre 7 54 am 13 comments saturday january 30 2010 on the need to find a fresh way to say something quite familiar i am able to say that while i am not ruggedly well i am not ill enough to excite an undertaker mark twain in a letter to a friend late in life we were struck by how familiar this underlying thought was and yet how novel and of course humorous was his way of putting it we welcome your similar examples posted by john ettorre 11 52 am 8 comments friday january 29 2010 ridiculous sign of the month become an intellectual for under 20 a sign hanging over a table at joseph beth bookstore the table contained among other titles dan brown s potboiler angels demons beside the fact that such a book hardly belongs in any such discussion we take issue with the whole idea that reading any book can make someone an intellectual processing the world through one s head our definition of an intellectual and one that leaves the door just as wide open to truck drivers as college professors is really an in born trait not something you can acquire through any recommended reading list but enough about what we think what do you think about what we think posted by john ettorre 1 34 pm 18 comments thursday january 28 2010 emails from beyond the grave dearly beloved let me apologize right now for the fact that i won t be posting anything nor responding to your comments or emails after i ve passed on to the next life i don t happen to know when that will be but whenever it eventually happens pray that s later rather than sooner i won t be using services such as this to continue to do virtual business post expiration when i ve kicked the can that s it finito please consider this my advanced apology on the other hand should you want to wipe the slate clean of your social media web 2 0 profile while you re still among the living this ought to help you accomplish the task n ow please go back to whatever you were doing before this interruption posted by john ettorre 12 08 pm 15 comments wednesday january 27 2010 the advantage of belief most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do cyril connolly the late british literary critic whose influence is sometimes compared to his american contemporary edmund wilson isn t that sentiment true in just about every aspect of life posted by john ettorre 3 31 pm 23 comments tuesday january 26 2010 microlending for the urban poor since the subject of microlending came up recently in one conversation here in the context of developmental aid to haiti i thought i d direct your attention to this interesting article about how the microlending community is beginning to turn its attention to the u s and particularly to harnessing the hustle and energy of inner city entrepreneurs if you have a further interest in that subject check out what is perhaps the leading online microlending platform kiva then should the spirit move you please share your thoughts posted by john ettorre 8 28 am 4 comments monday january 25 2010 the internet s effect on the market for freelance writing journalism what s sailing away a decade into the 21st century is the common conception that writing is a profession or at least a skilled craft that should come not only with psychic rewards but with something resembling a living wage freelance writing fees beginning with the internet but extending to newspapers and magazines have been spiraling downward for a couple of years and reached what appears to be bottom in 2009 the trend has gotten scant attention outside the trade maybe that s because we live in a culture that holds journalists in low esteem or it could be because so much focus has been put on the massive cutbacks in full time journalism jobs an estimated 31 000 writers editors and others have been jettisoned by newspapers in just the last two years today s reality is that much of freelancing has become all too free seasoned professionals have seen their income drop by 50 or more as publishers fill the web s seemingly limitless news hole drawing on the ever expanding rank of under employed writers from a recent article by the l a times excellent media reporter james rainey we had many reactions to this piece but figured y all should have first crack at commenting posted by john ettorre 9 21 am 10 comments saturday january 23 2010 how to avoid gobbledygook phrases in our continuing series on small but crucial ways to improve your writing we ve focused on the plague of unneccesary quotation marks and missplaced apostrophes today we turn the spotlight on identifying and of course then removing the kinds of gobbledygook phrases that tend to creep into our writing thoughts anyone posted by john ettorre 8 46 am 19 comments friday january 22 2010 how kafkaesque a woman who recalls knowing franz kafka you can review an earlier mention of the author mystic and man about town the town of prague that is who died in 1924 here posted by john ettorre 10 39 am 4 comments thursday january 21 2010 our favorite headline of the week this surely caught our attention and lured us into reading the story would it do the same for you for its sly irony this headline deserves at least a nod for runner up you can review earlier favorite headlines here posted by john ettorre 7 55 am 6 comments wednesday january 20 2010 can you read your way out of depression this fellow is sure that saul bellow s work helped him do just that what do you think posted by john ettorre 7 48 am 25 comments tuesday january 19 2010 our favorite book title part 22 this month we re calling it a toss up we thought it was a dead heat between two great titles the happiness project or why i spent a year trying to sing in the morning clean my closets fight right read aristotle and generally have more fun and your butt s in the wrong seat a manifesto for public transportation the latter is the first ever e book we ve recognized with this distinction you can download it for free as you can all the scores of other books at this remarkable site which i ve only been meaning to recommend for about oh two or three years anyway you can review earlier favorite book titles here posted by john ettorre 12 04 pm 2 comments monday january 18 2010 forget leno conan just bring back arsenio we couldn t agree more with what the root had to say on this topic at the risk of sounding provincial it doesn t hurt that arsenio happens to be a cleveland native his iconic 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