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Christmas Is a Time to Read-Joyce: Grace
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to “The Dead” on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to join us!] GRACE TWO GENTLEMEN who were in the lavatory at the time Continue reading
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A Christmas Full of Longing and Ache
Friend of the blog georgetteann has a lovely post on Christmas music over at her site, A Walk on the Bright Side: As my mind drifted away from the conversation at our table and focused on the music, I began to notice I knew almost every song in his repertoire by heart. Some songs were Continue reading
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Christmas Is a Time to Read-Joyce: A Mother
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to “The Dead” on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to join us!] A MOTHER MR HOLOHAN, assistant secretary of the Eire Abu Society, Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Episode 6 – A Boy Named Johnnie
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Holiday episode! Jacke surrenders to some seasonal melancholy and shares a story of his Grampa Johnnie, a Hungarian-American boy growing up in early-twentieth-century Wisconsin, where the forests were thick, the rivers were deep and fast, and life was rougher around the edges. Hope you enjoy the show! Continue reading
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Christmas Is a Time to Read-Joyce: Ivy Day in the Committee Room
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to “The Dead” on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to join us!] IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM OLD JACK raked the cinders Continue reading
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Best Case Name Ever (A Jacke Wilson Objectino)
Another day, another Objectino.* This one straight from the courthouse… A JACKE WILSON OBJECTINO Overheard at a legal proceeding: LAWYER 1: What’s the best case name you ever cited in a brief? For me, I figure it’s gotta be Lone Star Ladies v. Schlotzsky’s Deli. Or here’s one for you: Fattman v. Bear. New Jersey Continue reading
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Christmas Is a Time to Read-Joyce: A Painful Case
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to “The Dead” on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to join us!] A PAINFUL CASE MR. JAMES DUFFY lived in Chapelizod because he Continue reading
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Getting Closer! The Film Version of Joyce’s The Dead (John Huston’s Masterpiece)
We’re closing in! For those of you following along, we’re only a few days away from the culmination of our Dubliners project. If you haven’t been reading the stories each day, don’t worry. This isn’t assigned reading; I don’t give out homework. Except for one thing. This year, you must reserve some time for The Dead on Continue reading
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Christmas Is a Time to Read-Joyce: Clay
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to “The Dead” on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to join us!] CLAY THE matron had given her leave to go out as Continue reading
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A Marriage at Odds (A Jacke Wilson Objectino)
Time for another Objectino!* This one comes straight from the underbelly of a marriage… A JACKE WILSON OBJECTINO WIFE: [looking out the window] Oh great. It’s raining out. What are the odds that today is Saturday? HUSBAND: One in seven. WIFE: [exasperated] You know what I mean. It was sunny all week when I was stuck in that stupid Continue reading
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A Christmas Full of Longing and Ache
Friend of the blog georgetteann has a lovely post on Christmas music over at her site, A Walk on the Bright Side: As my mind drifted away from the conversation at our table and focused on the music, I began to notice I knew almost every song in his repertoire by heart. Some songs were Continue reading
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