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Comment on mccains’ top ten temper meltdows by ljgouveia

ljgouveia — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:25:40 +0000

Just had to share part of a priceless comment posted at the above link. I swear I’m not making this up and I didn’t do anything to the spelling or punctuation (or lack thereof)…

McCain is an absolute abysmal imbosol!! He’s a RHINO republican and tried to shove amnesty down our throat 2 times with “HIS OWN BILL”. HE IS FOR TAXING USA companies only to solve a so called GLOBAL warming problem. Well what about the rest of the WORLD? You people drink the kol-aid of the press and are completely UNINFORMED.

ROMNEY is this COUNTRYS BEST HOPE.

You want to know something else, STUPIDY BREADS ITSELF. You will believe anything someone tells you if you are uninformed and that is what the liberal media is counting on.
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Wow. Great, huh? STUPIDY BREADS ITSELF. (And then fries itself, too, in the deep fat of ignorant outrage?) You know, you just can’t use stuff like this in fiction. Nobody would believe it.

Comment on About by FIU/Hutchinson Island Writers Conference « A World in a Grain of Sand

FIU/Hutchinson Island Writers Conference « A World in a Grain of Sand — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:07:32 +0000

[...] writer JOHN DUFRESNE (Requiem, [...]

Comment on requiem, mass. by jmarhee

jmarhee — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:36:11 +0000

That’s a great cover. I saw a different cover when I pre-ordered on Amazon a few weeks ago, but that one is just a great photo.

Comment on in the news by dianaraab

dianaraab — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:10:13 +0000

Hi John,

Thanks for mentioning me here!

Here’s to having a lot of ‘good traffic’ in our lives!
BTW — is that you up there?

Diana

Comment on the death of the critic by tristanfrenchy

tristanfrenchy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:24:08 +0000

Oh, how I disagree. And I’m not too sure how familiar the author is with the difference between British and American cultural studies. When Stuart Hall, E.P. Thompson, and Raymond Williams (and then Terry Eagleton) engaged in “Cultural Studies” the goal was not to view art through a political framework, but simply to shift the term culture away from its lofty aristocratic past, and to acknowledge that cultural artifacts created by the British working-class were just as worthy as being evaluated in the same way “high-art” is. And the other goal was to examine how these working-class cultural artifacts were utilized as tools of subversion in the manner of the “Carnivalesque.”

Comment on on ice, chapter 2 by deniselanier

deniselanier — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:19:32 +0000

This is a perfect example of why they need bigger Zip Lock baggies.

Comment on how to write a misery memoir by mcde

mcde — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:51:43 +0000

Mr. Dufresne, Do you think publishers have the obligation to vet their writers’ works of personal non-fiction, or is there an essential good faith at play (save the advances) that precludes that?

Comment on About by bibomedia

bibomedia — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:57:11 +0000

Comment on temple clothing by ditchu

ditchu — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:36:02 +0000

Goes to show there are weird people everywhere.
I wonder where the mother was that she let her son go with this man?
As LDS, I know this to be unlike any normal behavior, this man was weird and I’m not sure what else was going on with him.

Comment on three feet by Ethan

Ethan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:43:31 +0000

I don’t read much mystery myself, but what I have read has been pretty fun. That looks like it should be a fun read.
Nice blog!