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Category Archives: L-I-V-I-N

Letter to a Young Writer, in the Form of a Top Ten List

By Antoine | Published: July 21, 2010
Dear 23 year-old Antoine Wilson, Here’s a list of ten things you might consider but probably won’t: 10. When you pick up the pen, put down the pipe. 9. If something you’ve written is blowing your mind, it’s probably a cliche. You just don’t know it yet. 8. Your most interesting material is all around [...]
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By Antoine | Published: October 30, 2008
The Lost Days & Last Years of David Foster Wallace, by David Lipsky, now online at Rolling Stone.
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Four (I got tagged)

By Antoine | Published: October 18, 2008
For some reason, our friend Jessica thought it would be a good idea to tag me with the following list. My responses below: Four Random Things I Like About Jessica’s Husband: 1) He’s reliably late. 2) He thinks he can duck dive sitting up. 3) He always gives props on late drops. 4) He’s a [...]
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bits and bytes

By Antoine | Published: October 13, 2008
Yesterday I heard a window-washer say to his co-worker: “I don’t usually talk to my psychic about everyday stuff.” Facebook is starting to reach terminal velocity…when you’ve got more friends than you care to have, when just about everyone has jumped on board. Recall the shipwrecks of Friendster and MySpace. Get a life, or a [...]
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Productivity

By Antoine | Published: August 23, 2008
Ever feel like there isn’t enough time in the day?
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i am still alive

By Antoine | Published: August 15, 2008
alive, but coughing. pneumonia ruled out by the doc, luckily. and the kiddo is on a 4am wake-up bender. will resume posting (and writing) next week!
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TX

By Antoine | Published: May 19, 2008
Off to Austin, Texas for a week, with the family, to visit some more family. This will be Leo’s first plane flight. The schlepping involved is mind-boggling. While I’m gone, why not enjoy some ED? You can sing it to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas. (A little trick I learned from watching [...]
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garden tours

By Antoine | Published: May 16, 2008
So the guy who lives across the street has a wonderful garden, and today some kind of garden tour is going on, with little vans shuttling around and a whole bunch of other cars on the street. Despite its narrowness, our street gets a fair amount of traffic, so there’s been some serious honking going [...]
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why I honked at you when you tossed that butt out the window

By Antoine | Published: March 23, 2008
In just one day 230,000 cigarette butts were collected from California beaches during the 2000 Coastal Cleanup Day. For more than 15 consecutive years, cigarette butts have ranked as the #1 littered item collected from our sandy shores during California’s Coastal Clean Up Day. Ingestion of plastic cigarette filters is a serious threat to wildlife. [...]
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one to see, one to read, one to grow on

By Antoine | Published: March 21, 2008
Jimmy Slade shreds the con (with gloves on!?!) [YouTube]. Ed Champion on the state of the Litblog. I quit drinking coffee about two weeks ago. I was rocking a pot a day, plus, and it wasn’t doing me any good. When I caught the flu, I made the switch over to tea. (For you lit-types, [...]
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