One of the Clarion West 2006 found this. Gord lives and works in Korea, so has a real appreciation for English as a Second Language (ESL) and having both taught ESL and lived in China, I would say I thought I had seen a lot, too. But this is pretty damn weird.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
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- Name: Maureen McHugh
- Location: United States
I'm a writer with four novels and more than two dozen short stories published. The best known is probably my novel China Mountain Zhang. A collection of my short stories, called Mothers and Other Monsters, was published by Small Beer Press in July '05.
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Eat Our Brains The brain child of Steve Gould.
Chrononaut Log David Moles smart and funny observations. Actually, what I really love about his log is the design, which fills me with envy.
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Barth Anderson was the coolest guy in his Clarion class. He had wit, he had charm, he had fashion sense, and despite being a white guy, he could dance.
Chris Barzak's Meditations in an Emergency about writing and his beloved Youngstown.
The Erin O'Brien Owner's Manual for Human Beings When Erin started her blog, I realized I was a complete amateur. Erin's blog is rollicking, erotic and terrifically funny. Rated at least R. Sometimes worse.
Musing With Mud A blog on making pottery. There is something in me that is incredibly facsinated and soothed by discussions of craft. Technique will get you through times of no inspiration a helluva lot better than inspiration will get you through times of no technique.
Thumb Drives and Oven Clocks And speaking of technique, Darby was a writing student who is now just a plain writer and it turns turns out that he knows everyone I do. Plus he's funny and he used to sit in my office at John Carroll drinking Mountain Dew.
When Artists Go Bad An artist and writer attempts to deconstruct her new role as the mayonnaise in the Sandwich Generation. That's what it says on the blog. How can you not read that?
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Austin Kleon It seems absurd to talk about this blog without including any images, but lets just say it's fun, sharp and graphical.
Ballast For my Gorge Friend and fellow writer Greg Feeley started a blog all his own just to say hello to me in mine which is not only thoughtful, but great because Greg writes better posts than almost anyone I know on a wide range of topics, literary and political.
The Great Whatever Amy Bracken Sparks is one of the most acute and intense poets writing today. Which she doesn't do near enough of because she is so involved in editing and publishing Angle Magazine, a art magazine in Cleveland, and the film work she does.
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A Spork in the Road Beth Adele Long looks at the intersection of technical stuff and creativitity. “Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming, feedback is the treatment.” Beth and I have worked together on some things and she knows this a lot better than I do. And I admire that.

2 Comments:
Saw this several months ago--believe that it was BoingBoinged. Unfortunately, the weird one about salary men giving replies like "This is all your fault" isn't up any more, but it featured the same dancing girls.
Spare me MY life. Spare me My life.
Spare me My life. Spare me My life.
kick, turn, turn, turn.
Yes, we all know how valuable it is to know those phrases, since most of us get mugged on a weekly basis, here in America.
My wife and I did many recording sessions for English Language schools there, and I taught privately as well, but we never did anything even remotely as wacky as this.
OK, I admit to once teaching my students to say, "Hot, warm, cool, cold, butt cold."
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