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Read more about the article Memories I’d like to forget

Memories I’d like to forget

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:May 22, 2010
  • Post category:Autobiography/Music
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While playing Sweet Child O’ Mine at last night’s wedding, Bengi and I reminisced about a time when we were seventeen years old. We were both in high school, working…

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Read more about the article Dead

Dead

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:May 21, 2010
  • Post category:Autobiography/Critic

Things that I can’t imagine not doing when I’m dead include: Music… the thought that I will never again hear the music of Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Cat…

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Read more about the article Names

Names

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:May 20, 2010
  • Post category:CHICKEN SHACK/SOMETHING MISSING Items/The Writing Process/UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO related

The Facts of Life was a sitcom about four girls and their scraggly old headmistress, Mrs. Garrett. It was a painfully classic 80’s television programs that proselytized and preached lessons…

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Read more about the article Outsourcing my underwear

Outsourcing my underwear

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:May 19, 2010
  • Post category:Idea

It’s a problem that most men face. We purchase underwear and socks and then forget about ever purchasing another pair, assuming that our current supply will get us through the…

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Read more about the article It’s all about the shoes

It’s all about the shoes

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:May 19, 2010
  • Post category:Quandry

In the film The Shawshank Redemption, protagonist Andy Dufresne wears the warden’s shoes during his escape from the prison, walking right by guards and inmates with the shiny, black dress…

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Read more about the article The verdict

The verdict

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:May 18, 2010
  • Post category:The Writing Process

While I wait for Taryn to finish falling in love with CHICKEN SHACK and possibly negotiate the subject of my next novel, I sit and wait. Since the choice of…

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Read more about the article Straight-talk

Straight-talk

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:May 18, 2010
  • Post category:History/Politics
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I’m not a Republican, and I’m not comfortable with everything Dale Peterson says, but damn if this isn’t the best campaign commercial I’ve ever seen.

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Read more about the article Too much television

Too much television

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:May 18, 2010
  • Post category:Autobiography/Television
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There are more televisions in an average US household than there are people. By 2006, Nielsen Media Research estimated that the average US household had 2.73 televisions sets. Compare that…

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Read more about the article If you can find ten minutes, you can find the time to write

If you can find ten minutes, you can find the time to write

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:May 17, 2010
  • Post category:The Writing Process
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I was listening to the Barnes and Noble Meet the Author’s podcast today.  Authors from across the publishing landscape discuss their latest book and their life as an author. Specifically,…

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Read more about the article Twelve years perhaps?

Twelve years perhaps?

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:May 17, 2010
  • Post category:Quandry
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I bought some triple-A batteries today with an expiration date of 2022. At some point, doesn’t an expiration date become moot?

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