December 2011
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best of the blotter 2011 →
ladies and gentlemen, the ‘best of the blotter’ from the town where I grew up:
A woman reported locking her keys in her car with her dog inside at a Woodland gas station Aug. 31. A few minutes later she called back saying the dog unlocked the door for her.
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Two men were reported to be “fighting with rakes” in the 300 block of Northwest Second Avenue, Kelso Aug....
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my year in reading
I hesitate to even write this, because it seems so filled with ego, but I thought it would be nice, at least for my own sake, to record what I’ve enjoyed the most, felt the most conflicted over, etc. So. I’m going to do this the best I can by memory, which will hopefully mean the rambling will be weaned some, since my memory is notoriously awful. I guess I’ll put asterisks after...
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“Some people call me the Don Quixote of the Latin Quarter, because my head is so...”
– RIP George Whitman of Shakespeare & Co. Sending my heart to Paris this morning.
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“Years ago, I thought the big publishers were like dinosaurs and the smaller...”
– Small House, Big Ideas
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