“Black Friday,” Steely Dan I’d already been humming this song this morning when I saw a New York Time’s blog post with a video of a live performance. Enjoy the killer guitar solo. Definitely beats shopping on this most frightening of days.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
To see and see again: Lillian Hellman and “The Little Foxes”
Pictured standing (left to right) John Shepard, Chris Landis, and Ross Bickell. Seated is Helena Ruoti. Photo credit: Pittsburgh Public Theater. In 1982 I was Lillian Hellman for fifteen minutes. For 10th grade English class, we were each asked to choose an author and to research and report on that author. We were encouraged to …
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Tin hat
Me in foils, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey. This evening I had my hair colored and cut. I thought of taking a photo of myself all done up in foils as I was getting my hair highlighted. Almost immediately I thought better of it. Instead I made this sketch. My stylist said it looks like me …
The view from the snowflake truck
View from the snowflake truck, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey. This Sunday morning, at the alarmingly early hour of 6:30am, I and a group of other volunteers for Butler Downtown helped to set up the electric snowflake decorations on Main Street, Butler, PA. We volunteers unloaded the decorations from the special rigs they’re stored and transported …
We have a winner! And facts about high-speed novel writing are reaffirmed
We have a winner of the “No Plot? No Problem!” novel-writing kit: Scott Cowley Scott says he is working on his first NaNoWriMo novel, and we can hope this kit will help him in his high-speed creation of novelistic wonder. How is my own NaNo novel coming? Here’s what I’ve learned in the past week: …
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Pittsburgh BlogFest 19: PghBloggers.org turns 5!
finlay is five, originally uploaded by papalamour. Five years ago, right around this time, a half-dozen or so bloggers in the Pittsburgh area were reading each others’ blogs, commenting, and generally marveling at the discovery that each of us was not alone — that there were not a few folks in the region who had …
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Day 1: Well-begun is half done
Back Bay Brewing cap, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey. It’s November, that heady month when people across the Web and around the world leave behind silly things such as reason and rationality and hygiene and take on tremendous challenges. NaNoWriMo. NaBloPoMo. DrawMo! And many other Mos of which I’m as yet unaware. This year I’m tackling …