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Archive for May, 2008
How to Disagree
In: Buried Treasure
22 May 2008The Disagreement Pyramid. It’s like the food pyramid, only instead of sugar and grains, it ranks ad hominem and ‘ur mom.’
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That old saw about hammers and nails
In: Miscellany|Writing
21 May 2008Have you ever noticed that: When you nail a point, it’s the same as when you hit the nail on the head? Both imply precision, even though nailing a picture to the wall is much different than squarely hitting a nail once. Congrats on not hitting your thumb, I guess. Then you can hammer something. [...]
The Universal Rule of Writing (That You Should Discard)
In: Writing
16 May 2008“Show, don’t tell.” At first pass, it’s the solution to 90% of bad writing. It’s such a vague, catch-all instruction that if you’re in a writer’s workshop, you can prove you critiqued your peers by writing “show, don’t tell!” all over their stories. Strident red letters work best. I prefer to replace the “don’t” with [...]
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- Tags: Copywriting, Rules of Writing, Style, Writing
Bubbles
In: Buried Treasure
16 May 2008The housing bubble? Yawn. That is so 2007. Think of it like an economic pacemaker: your heart stops, it shocks you, it hurts, and you’re ready to go. Then you die.
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Elevators
In: Buried Treasure
16 May 2008In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work.
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Agenbites
In: Buried Treasure
16 May 2008“Odd.” Now there’s a word that says just what it means.
It was:
In: Miscellany
15 May 2008A dark and stormy night The best of times The worst of times A pleasure to burn Like so, but wasn’t A queer, sultry summer The day my grandmother exploded A bright cold day in april Love at first sight.
