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Today’s Comment of the Week: The Paralegal Checks In
Wonderful Reader K.C. writes: The Promotion is definitely my next read. My “day” job is as a paralegal and the description is genius. Can’t wait to read. Oh boy! A paralegal! Reading about “when big law meets big trouble…” This should be interesting… It kind of reminds me of that time I walked into the Continue reading
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This Is It! The Top Post of the Year!
This is it! We’ve come to the end of the Blogiversary Extravaganza, in which I’ve counted down the top posts of the year. Object, object, object, object. Ho-hum. I even had to throw in a few honorable mentions just to keep things interesting. (Hello, Soho Press, John Lennon’s Writing Wisdom, and the irrepressible Charlotte Brontë, dumping Continue reading
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Best Posts of the Year: The Honorable Mentions
Blogiversary Week is about to conclude with the top post of the year. (In case you missed it, the worst posts of the year have already been spotlighted. Check out The Case for Something I Don’t Care About, “Pen Reviews”, The Skirt-Chasing Poobah, Haiku Nothingness, and Company Does Not Love Misery. Or don’t!) I’ve hinted that the top post Continue reading
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Review of The Race: “Absolutely Fascinating”
People! It’s another great day here at the Jacke Blog. We’ve had a few of those lately – I have truly been fortunate to receive such positive reviews and feedback. I’m simply overwhelmed by it all. Thank you, readers! All right. Enough, enough. The good news for those of you who enjoy the more miserable Jacke, Continue reading
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Writers Laughing: Henry Miller
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Writers Laughing: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
These two have haunted me for years. So beautiful. So doomed. Ah well, it’s good to see them laughing: And this – well, this is just fantastic: More blogging carnage tomorrow. Enjoy the writers laughing…until the twilight sets in… (How’s that for an onward and upward? Onward and upward…into the dying sun and the dark night of Continue reading
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Blog Fail! Worst Post of the Year #3
It’s the Blogiversary here on the Jacke Blog. One year of bringing you the hits. And the duds. We’re counting all of them down. So far we’ve seen a pair of Objects grabbing spots five and four on the list of most popular posts. On the list of duds, we’ve seen a hopeless pen review and Continue reading
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The Countdown of Ugh Continues! Worst Post of the Year #4
It’s been a great year here on the Jacke Blog. We’re celebrating our twelve-month anniversary by posting the most and least popular posts of the year, as measured by your hits. Or lack thereof! Today we’re at #4 of our countdown of ugh. I’m including a pair of posts, each of which could stand (sit?) in Continue reading
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Blogiversary Week – The Agony of A Bad Headline
It’s anniversary week here on the Jacke blog! That’s right, one whole year of bringing you writers laughing, objects, small-press shoutouts, and whatever the heck else I’ve been up to in these 300 or so posts. So how to celebrate? I thought I’d run through the archives and feature the five most popular posts of Continue reading
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Today’s Comment of the Week: About Those Vampires…
Yesterday I posted about the Magic of Storytelling. Yes, I got a full head of steam going on that one (it happens!), and we definitely achieved liftoff. Fortunately, Wonderful Reader Rain, Rain was there to keep the post anchored in the comments. To make one of my points, I asked readers to fill in the blanks Continue reading
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