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. Full Article at Gainesville Sun

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. Full Article at Forbes

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. Full Article at Long Island Business Network

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. Full Article at Inside Bay Area

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. Full Article at The Seattle Times

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." Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

• 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. Full Article at Houston Chronicle

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... Full Article at The Asheville Citizen-Times

Its a rotten job but somebodys got to do it. Certainly it was Alan Johnson as the nation had never seen him before and he enjoyed it so much he did it not just once but twice. The first time he was angry, the second time a little sad. Full Article at Daily Express

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. Full Article at Etsy Garden

My colleagues and I are convinced that one of our co-workers is insane. Full Article at Jezebel

Scott appeared in the 2009 Mac Award-nominated revue What's the Point? Other cabaret revues include What in the World? (Nightlife Award) and Our Life & Times (Mac Award). Full Article at Playbill

1953 Onetime Algonquin Round Table wit Dorothy Parker, her star already dimmed by alcohol abuse, tries her hand at a Broadway play. Full Article at Playbill

Although Parker famously said of MacArthur, ''How like me, to put all my eggs into one bastard'', there had been no evidence she had written about their relationship. Full Article at The Age

Dorothy Parker: The New York writer had a brief but - at least for her - significant affair in the early 1920s with Charles MacArthur Photo: HULTON/GETTY Now a "lost" poem by the writer has been discovered in which she lays bare for the first time... Full Article at The Telegraph

I like to spend some of my spare time reading. Full Article at TVNZ

I’m taking up a collection for $200,000. Because Neiman Marcus unveiled its Christmas catalog this morning, and there’s something in it that I must have. Full Article at Austin American-Statesman

AS THE New Yorker's Constant Reader, Dorothy Parker was tasked to assess an AA Milne book. Full Article at The Scotsman

You don’t need to be Dylan Thomas or Dorothy Parker to understand that the writing bone is all too often connected to the gin drinking bone. So what happens when you sober up? How do you foster the creative spirit if you’re not loaded? Full Article at Blogging.LA