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Snoopy Doggy Dog Causes Confusion, Controversy In the Human, Canine Community

Those howls you hear are coming from both the dog and human communities following major miss communications that resulted in Snoopy (whose name inspired the rapper Snoop Doggy Dog) being confused for each other during marketing and promotion for a Thanksgiving event.

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Tips From One Turkey On How To Escape Becoming Thanksgiving or Christmas Dinner

You know that old saying, "Beware the ides of March?" Screw that, for us turkeys it should be called "Beware the holidays for you may BECOME the holiday meal." Happy holidays, my skinny turkey ass! What's that look for? Because i'm a profane talking turkey? What, you think we don …

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TV This Week - Nov. 23, 2009

Tonight watch Surviving The Holidays with Lewis Black. Tuesday night FrontLine looks at the credit card industry. Wednesday night watch the Beatles on Record. Thursday night it's time for A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Friday night it's the beginning of the end for Monk.

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The Birth of Salberuck

I am Albert and I was walking in the pen one day when the members of my age group were being rounded up by the young boy who fed and watered the flock. I looked around, thinking well we already ate today and the water tray is full so what is that boy up to.

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Historic Harvest Celebrations and America's Wild Turkeys

[This article is for Scott's Writing Assignments: Thanksgiving from a Turkey's Perspective]

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Writing Down the Bones Topic: Salt/Salty

I want someone else to pick the next topic so the first one to suggest a word or theme I'll make that the assignment. And now the rules... A reminder of the rules of this exercise

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A Thanksgiving Tale

Brrrr, I'm freezing! Not only is it cold but I don't have a coat or a blanket and neither do any of the others. We're just laying here while people look us over. Some of the people pick one of us up, look at us, turning us around and read the words written on the cover.

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The Rose Murder

This is my entry for this Scott Butki Challenge. "RITA!" I yelled. Yet, I knew Rita could not hear me. Only other plants can hear a rose screaming, but I had to try.

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Part 2: An Interview With Frank Portman, Author of King Dork, About His New Book, Andromeda Klein

This is the second part of a two part interview. The first part is here. Portman, lead singer of the Mr. T Experience, has written another great book, Andromeda Klein.

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Bones Review - The Foot in the Foreclosure - 11/19/09 - *Spoilers*

*Spoilers* Good episode all around! The murder mystery was more interesting than usual and the side story, involving Booth's grandfather, was excellent

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Good News: There's A New Collection of Pieces By My Favorite Mystery Writers; An Interview With Otto Penzler, Editor of "The Lineup"

Otto Penzler, owner of the famous Mysterious Bookshop in Manhatten, has done a brilliant project and, with this book, shared the results with us.

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Changing Voices - 2009/2010 - Round 1

I did a few Changing Voices exercises in 2007 and I'm going to revive it for 2009 - I'll do a new one each each / Here are the four from last time Round 1 Write in the voice of a 38-year-old man in a mystery

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Revived Writing Exercise - Celebrity Fiction - Round 1

Since there seems to be more interest lately in writing exercises I've decided to revive two ideas, one being this celebrity fiction one and the other being this changing voices one which I'll post tomorrow.

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An Interview With Frank Portman, Author of King Dork, About His New Book, Andromeda Klein (Part 1)

This is the first part of a two part interview with Frank Portman about his new book, Andromeda Klein. In a week or two I'll post part two of this interview

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"Wheels" Keep On Moving; Join This "Glee" Club Because This Series Continues To Rock (spoiler warning)

"A show about a glee club? You have to be kidding!" That was my initial reaction to this show.

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V Disappoints With Its Second Episode; Another Bad One And This Reviewer Is Giving Up On This New Series (Spoiler Warning)

So I seeded several stories about V - links below - but held out hope it was better than the reviewers said it was. Today I sat down and watched it while also reading Television Without Pity'ssnarky but spot on criticisms of it, listing here my favorite comments from it.

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House Returns With "Known Unknowns" (Warning: Spoilers)

(Made a few revisions since I first posted this) A few preliminaries: First, this will not be a full recap or summary of the show. If you want that, read the official recap-summary from the Fox site.

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An Interview With Michael Specter About "Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives"

This is a fascinating book and one I'd encourage all thinking people to read. Heck, even better try to get the non-thinking people you know to read this because it might snap some of them out of their denialism before they go to their next Obama birthers meeting.

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Your November Writing Challenge - Write From the Perspective Of A Turkey

Your mission - write about what it would be like to be a turkey. Perhaps you hear from the other turkeys about the terrible turkey travesty that occurs each Thanksgiving ("they stuff things into you and most uncomfortable ways" they wail).

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Writing Down the Bones Nov. 8 Topic: Praise

A reminder of the rules of this exercise The rules here are pretty basic: I, or someone else, picks the topic. You write about it for 10 minutes and then must stop. The time must be spent writing, not editing.

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My Interview With New Yorker Writer Ken Auletta About His New Book, Googled: The End of The World As We Know It

I have been reading Ken Auletta's pieces for many years, usually in the New Yorker, where he is its resident media critic, but also a few of his books.

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With "Earthling," Fringe Returns Kicking, Er, Ash, And This Viewer Celebrates

First my usual disclaimer, caveat and reminder For a complete recap of this episode, try here I seeded two pieces about this episode, a review by the L.A. Times and a preview by Entertainment Weekly here.

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Memoir: Why Elections And Colds Don't Mix (At Least For This Election Worker)

There are some things that don't mix like chocolate and bacon, cough drops and iced tea (learned that the hard way last night) and, colds and elections. I learned that all day Tuesday.

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With "The Gift," FastForward Irks This Viewer; A Few Thoughts

I am not going to try to do a full recap of this episode. Instead, I'll post links to official recaps - there should be an official recap here shortly and I'll post links to other reviews over the next.

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Good News: Check Out Our Great Newsvine Writers - Newsviner's Picks for Sept. 2009 Is Now Up

For each edition of this ongoing series my goal is to spotlight the best articles I've read in the last month or so. Seeds are great but I, for one, much prefer reading original writing. This is a way to give back to the newsvine community, the one I'm addicted to.

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