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I Dare You To Stay Awake Reading This

Don’t you hate it when you go to a website or blog, expecting something interesting, and instead get some snooze-inducing report of stuff about the “author’s” personal life that you could tell you wouldn’t even care about if you were that person? Yeah, that’s about to happen to you. Our time, right now: 9:22 a.m. [...]

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Listen to Me on the Radio Yesterday–IF YOU DARE!

My friend Brian Shields helped me out by making me this audio file link thing. I think that when you hit the link below, it’ll pop up a very sweet little player. Let me know if it does–if this works? Thanks, friends. Big J on the ray (dio).

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Two Dinky Bits of Blog Advice

Looking at (literally) all the new blogs now on my blogroll (via yesterday’s “Send Me Your Blog Address for My Blogroll!“) made me want to quickly offer up these two tiny little tips for General Blog Improvement: 1. Make sure your blog has a little something on it about you. It’s hard for people to connect [...]

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Send Me Your Blog Address for My Blogroll!

[Update: I'll leave this post up through today--being July 20, doncha know--and then be sure to get these blogs onto my blogroll ASAP. Probably take me ... I dunno. Day, maybe. Whatever. But I'll get 'em done. Cuz you know how I do.] The other day I finally got around to explaining why I don’t [...]

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When Pretty Women Dance

After the dinner I wrote a bit about in yesterday’s How I Got a Blog on Huffington Post (And Help Me Mooch Indian Food!), Cat, DR and I took a stroll down from where we’d eaten (being–for those who asked–George’s at the Cove) to this promenade: which runs between the ocean and this park: which looks [...]

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WHOOPS!

WHOA! Three years, and it’s the first time this has happened. If you subscribe to my feed, or visited my blog here this morning, you might have seen a post called, “Five E-Z Steps to Making it Rich as a Creative Genius.” The text of that post read as follows:

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Announcing the “Guess the Fate of the Earth and Humans” Contest Winners!

How to choose the winning entry in my Guess the Fate of the Earth and the Human Race! Win a Free Book! contest? I can’t. Any one of at least fifteen entries could easily be deemed best. So, basically, I’m choosing these at random: The #1 spot goes to Brian Shields, whose two entries are here [...]

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The Startling Depth of My Perfection

When I contemplate the breadth and depth of my wisdom, I marvel like unto one beholding for the first time the Grand Canyon, or the moon through a telescope, or a full-grown white shark, moving unstoppably toward its goal. What don’t I know? Love, God, relationships, art, why we are here, what we are to [...]

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I Win!

First of all, let me apologize for being so out of commission yesterday and today. No fair calling a contest, and then checking out for two days. Wrong! I was wrong. I feel guilty. Oh, wait. I’m a Christian. Gimme a moment. Cool! Guilt gone! Ha, ha, ha. Ah, salvation humor. Good times.

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Guess the Fate of the Earth and the Human Race! Win a Free Book!

In the comment section of yesterday’s “Have BP Execs Committed Manslaughter?,” a spirited little side-debate started about the ultimate fate of the earth. “How sad to think that we seem to be witnessing the rapid approach of the death of this beautiful planet,” said “Appalachiana.”

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