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Pre-Thanksgiving bustle is a bit lacking

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:53:28 GMT

On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, birds were not flying out of the stores. Nor were pies, pie ingredients, potatoes, stuffing stuff, cans of cranberry gel or the other fixtures of the big meal.
Source: Gainesville Sun

Quoted in 'Pre-Thanksgiving bustle is a bit lacking'

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:53:28 GMT

Dorothy Parker said in Gainesville Sun:

I'm going to do it the day before Thanksgiving

Dorothy Parker, Et Al., Teach Us About Committees

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:55:03 GMT

Does anything actually get done by committee? People have argued that whenever a group convenes to accomplish something together, a bad deal is made, a good policy is thwarted or creative work loses its spark.
Source: Forbes

Miller: Greenport thumbs nose at recession

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:33:40 GMT

1. Go to a bar and order a Fine and Dandy. 2. Watch the ultimate screwball comedy, “It Happened One Night.” 3. Read some Dorothy Parker. Those are the top three Internet suggestions I just found for shaking off The Great Recession.
Source: Long Island Business Network

Lafayette police arrested two women on suspicion of burglary

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:46:12 GMT

hiding nearby, he said. LAFAYETTE — Police arrested two women early Monday who they say burglarized at least one home and tried to burglarize two others.
Source: Inside Bay Area

"The Wizard of Oz" in Florence, in London, and at (no place like) home

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:23:03 GMT

To paraphrase Dorothy Parker upon her return to her New Yorker column after a long absence, maybe you just thought I was out in the ladies room this whole time, but there's no truth to it.
Source: The Seattle Times

Open door: The readers' editor on … the familiar confusion between underestimate and overestimate

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:05:39 GMT

Some sentences make you think twice. When Guiding Light, the world's longest-running soap opera, came to an end in September, a short piece in G2 solemnly declared: "Its role in US culture cannot be underplayed."
Source: Guardian Unlimited

10 tweet tips help you unleash your inner comedian

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:37:14 GMT

• stuffmydadsays (only replace “stuff” with a certain four-letter word): Justin chronicles his surly dad's vulgar but brilliant musings. We're all smarter and slightly more frightened for it.
Source: Houston Chronicle

Literary events calendar

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:34:15 GMT

Your guide to author and literary events in Western North Carolina, Nov. 8-14: SHORT STORY MASTERS: Award-winning authors Mary Akers and Clifford Garstang present their collection of short stories, respectively, Women up on Blocks and An Uncharted...
Source: The Asheville Citizen-Times

Quoted in 'The Same Pooh Bear, but an Otter Has Arrived'

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:21:14 GMT

said in The New York Times:

I didn’t want to do parody; I didn’t want to do pastiche ... Dorothy Parker thought Pooh was twee beyond words.

Creative Quotations from Dorothy Parker for Aug 22

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:59:57 GMT