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Pink is the New Brown

Monday, May 30th, 2005

I have a theory about why the deadly-dull, trite, hackneyed, and utterly predictable Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown has been a far-too perennial best-seller. It goes something like this: If you want to be a popular (read: successful) writer, pick a topic everyone thinks they know something about. Even if they’re not religious, everyone […]

Another quiz: what (romantic) poet are you?

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Thanks to Maria at Alembic, another weird quizilla to enlighten and amuse: You are Samuel Taylor Coleridge! The infamous “archangel a little damaged!” You took drugs and talked for hours, it’s true, but you also made a conscious choice to cultivate the image of the deranged poet in a frenzy of genius. You claimed you […]

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