We don’t have a washing machine or dryer in our apartment building so every week I drop off our dirty laundry at the corner Laundromat for washing. In our Jersey City neighborhood paying someone else to wash and dry your clothes actually costs less than doing it all yourself in Manhattan.
You do think grammar and spelling are important? Do you believe your words define you and frame your intelligence? If you agree, how then do you explain the steep decline in definition and brightness in written exchanges via electronic communication?
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This article was written by Gordon Davidescu.
At a Passover seder I attended this year, one of the people told me that they had once watched the soap opera Coronation Street while visiting England, and that it seemed interesting but it looked like it was poorly produced. When I asked what she meant she said that it didn’t quite have the same high quality production value as, say, Days of Our Lives or All My Children.
I gave it some thought and more recently, as I have been researching what it takes to put together a dramatic television program such as a soap opera, I have been watching Days of Our Lives and All My Children just about every day to see what I could gather from it.
I had no idea there was a “Boles University” (no, there really isn’t one) until I received the Best Ever Direct Mail Campaign (yes, there really is one) yesterday.
In the early 1990’s Gordon Dahlquist was one of my Columbia University coursemates in the MFA Playwriting program.
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I know this article may tick off 90% of the blogosphere but sometimes the truth stings and a barb or two can bump things back into an entertaining reality.
I skip reading blogs on Thursdays for two reasons: Half Naked Thursday and Thursday Thirteen.
Are you concerned about Gmail violating your privacy? Do you have a method for routinely backing up your Gmail account? Do you trust Gmail?
When Gmail started two years ago I thought the idea of having a free, giant, email account was divine and I paid someone on eBay $40 to get one of the first Gmail invitations.
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