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Hazard brings technical writer to tears

June 12th 2010

Kudos to you, dude, I said to the cubicle wall. Now, here’s a guy, who spends his day unplugging toilets and changing light bulbs, and he cares enough about the Canadian English language to have a Canadian Oxford Dictionary on his desk.

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Thank you, Ms. Vanderbilt

May 15th 2010

Dear Ms. Vanderbilt,
When an interview request via Lewis Frumkes was unsuccessful in April 2008, I was disappointed at the missed opportunity—not just for the members of a local writers’ newsletter who anticipated reading the published interview, but also (more selfishly) for the chance to pass along the enclosed poem.
At the time of the interview request, [...]

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An Actor Has First Right of Refusal

April 24th 2010

Working for a talent agency can be a strange and wonderful thing. Actors are funny, goofy, entertaining, and at times insecure, neurotic and almost always, warm human beings. Agents are not.

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Writer writes kiss-off letter to dream job

April 17th 2010

A love letter of sorts to a dream job turned down.

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A Temp Misfiled My Akashic Record

April 10th 2010

Without email or Internet access, I had some time to kill. I leaned back in my chair, stared at my office wall, and began to speculate about the consequential effects Mercury Retrograde was having on the Akashic Records.

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