I Write Real Good: Archive

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Oct 28th

Sep 30th

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“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose...”

Sep 29th

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Target Cancer - New Drugs Stir Debate on Basic... →

This severely stretches what is a clinical trial.

Sep 19th

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Currents - Q and A - John Pawson - Father of... →

Q&A in the NYT about John Pawson, minimalist architect/designer.

Sep 8th

Sep 3rd

“So, like, why?”

Aug 23rd

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Bad Day for the Home Team Ch. 1 (final...

A woman off to the side noticed the shooter’s face. She saw that his eyes were absolutely huge. “Hot bullets,” he said to no one in particular. He stopped at a table and poured a Pepsi on the top of the gun, and on his hand. He stopped firing and watched a man behind the wheel of a car in the parking lot. The man’s hand slipped along the gearshift as he put it in reverse. He was horrified,...

Aug 16th

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Bad Day for the Home Team - Ch. 1 (third...

“No one’s back there,” the kid said in a twisted yell once he came back from the kitchen. He was still holding his ear. “Can I go now? I’d like to go. Now. I’ll just…” And he left. The first guy who was shot was still hitting the floor with his hand. It was soft as a whisper. Slap, slap, slap. The guy with the gun looked out a window with the blinds up. The sunny day continued....

Aug 14th

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Bad Day for the Home Team - Ch. 1 (second...

A kid in a corduroy baseball cap looked at him. He held his right ear and just stood there with his mouth open. At first he didn’t move to protect anyone, not even himself. Then he turned to get out of there and tell someone about it. “Don’t leave.” the shooter told him. He resumed firing. Shell casings dropped to the floor with hollow clinks. “Don’t,” he said. More people fell....

Aug 13th

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Bad Day for the Home Team, by Alex O'Meara -...

It just went off, like, oops. The first shot hit solid and sent a guy cutting pizza for his son back into a wall. “Wow,” the shooter said. “I’m sorry.” He apologized in the same tone a mother uses when she tells her child the hamster died. “What was that?” someone said. “What the hell?” The shooter looked at his gun, then watched the wife...

Aug 12th

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Bad Day for the Home Team - Chapter 1 Coming Soon

My first novel, Bad Day for the Home Team, is slated to be published Aug. 15. Here and on my personal site, www.alexomeara.com I will post the first chapter of the book in installments. I will begin on Thursday, Aug. 12 and it will be fully posted Monday, Aug. 16. I invite everyone to read, comment, raise your hands, stamp your feet, yell, scream and whatever else you like as this unfolds. Should...

Aug 11th

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“Simplicity is the highest achievement of art.”

– Benjamin Latrobe

Aug 11th

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Aug 5th

Ultramarathon Connection: Ultrarunning News - Top... →

The last 10 years has seen a tremendous growth in the field of ultrarunning and of people participating in ultramarathons. The most popular ultramarathons are getting sold out quicker and quicker and more and more people and organisations are putting ultramarathons together in every kind of place…

Aug 5th

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Nice video. Grueling wonderful cool awesome hurtful glorious sport this is! runnergunner: UltraRunning (by Matt Hart)

Aug 5th

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“none of what we are matters, only what we will be. anything and everything is...”

– kirk johnson (via amyaca)

Aug 5th

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Aug 5th

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Aug 5th

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Aug 4th

“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

– Aldous Huxley (via libraryland) (via firstwordboomba)

Aug 4th

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Aug 3rd

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Facebook no mas for me.

Aug 3rd

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I played the Hero in this small film Lustig, by Jack Black. I was, I thought, quite heroic.

Aug 3rd

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My imdb listing →

Does anyone have the least clue how I can add to this? It says so little and I’m not sure how to proceed so I can properly prostitute present myself to those who make cheap exploitive fine fine films.

Aug 3rd