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I read Midnight's Children about 5 years ago at the beach. Looks like the book is new again! Like Nabokov said in his lecture Good Readers and Good Writers, it's only the re-readings that matter. Guess it's time to hit it again.

Re-reading the best of the Booker - Telegraph Re-reading the best of the Booker - Telegraph via kwout

or "Ways to make David Banner angry"

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is the famous, gamer interjection w00t. More importantly, the same M-W poll gives up it's #8 slot to "Pecksniffian."

Trademork today lists the 11 Worst Word Mashup Trademarks. My fav is Blingkini. That's a mashup word you can actually say. Come on now. Say it with me: Bling-KEEN-ee. See? Easy. There's some others on the list that completely defy speech.

Of course, we came up with a pretty dorky word mashup on this blog awhile back.

Here's a big Lucky Dog Audio Post blog category climber - file under Advertising, Audio Goodness, Food & Drink, Music, Web Goodness, Words, and especially Luck.

(Originally we marked this only as Audio Goodness & Music.)

Awards shows are funny. Here's Karen Minor's pictures from the 2007 E.A.R. Awards ceremony where we didn't win the category of "Best Use of Radio to Drive Consumers to the Web." Dang it. The show was great. Colbert was hilarious. The venue was super slick. And. . . we didn't win.

That's the stage for the event. The glass windows of Jazz at Lincoln Center look down five stories onto Columbus Circle. Very cool. Mos def off the heezy. The guy to the right of the podium is a DJ. He made a mashup from some of the entries in the awards. Our spot, EZ Mabel, made the mashup but didn't win.

Here's Colbert mid-monologue: holding mic, pointing finger, and announcing us not winning.

Close to the action, here's another shot of Colbert. But where's his Wriststrong bracelet?

More press hit the newsstands this week about our favorite rapping grandmother, EZ Mabel. Check out Nate Hinkel's story for Arkansas Business about our award nomination. Thanks Nate!

It is 'difficult" for me to fully "elucidate" how much I "enjoy" the "Blog" of "Unneccessary" Quotation Marks, even though recent posts haven't been as "entertaining" as previous others (i.e. "congrats," "over there on the sloppy pile," "Actually Boring," "no, really, we voted," or "or 'donate'").

Thanks "little" brother!

J. David Lee was my first real boss, if we leave aside the moron at the Texaco station. At 17, I had no reason to be given as much opportunity as he gave me, eventually guiding me to the data processing clients that would fund my college career, but I'm thankful for it. He also introduced me to John D. MacDonald, the great American mystery writer. I think J. David wanted to BE Travis Mcgee, and why not?

I have read and re-read those 21 novels, and hadn't gotten hooked, really hooked into another character quite so much until Brother Jay turned me on to Lee Child this summer. Curse you, Jay. And curses to Mr. Child for writing so slowly! Only 11 Reacher books? I'll be done in another week!

Sophisticated literature they ain't, but I can't get enough.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

~George Lois