John Dufresne's Weblog http://johndufresne.wordpress.com Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:14:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/7bb94d5b8482f9a2ce4dfe33e0133571?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png John Dufresne's Weblog http://johndufresne.wordpress.com moving http://johndufresne.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/moving/ http://johndufresne.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/moving/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:14:46 +0000 johndufresne http://johndufresne.wordpress.com/?p=427 ]]>

 I’ve just gotten used to wordpress but Cindy says we need to incorporate the blog with the new JD website.  So from now on go to www.johndufresne.com and click on blog.  The site is undergoing construction, but I’ll see that the blog gets attention.  See you there!  John

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“Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped “Forged by DeLaney Bros., Picataway, N.J.”  This year’s winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Prize.

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I’ve got a piece in the September issue of The Writer on how to start your fiction.

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George Orwell has a blog.  “This morning all surfaces, even indoors, damp as a result of mist. A curious deposit all over my snuff-box, evidently residue of moisture acting on lacquer.”

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An article about our favorite watering hole.  The King’s Head was also voted Best Restaurant for Intimate Conversations.

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A few kind words from Booklist online’s Book Group Buzz. 

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ViewerVideoOnly.aspx?mode=Default&peid=26e6328d-d9cd-435e-b25e-5f7ee7c13426&pid=29c71310-1daa-4d9a-939b-f6ba53c3f640&playerType=WM64LiteOn the Jordan Levy Show in Worcester.

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Send Bill O’Reilly back to school. 

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Photovia Notcot.org

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I make dictionary.com’s word of the day!

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