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Song of the day: “Black Friday”
“Black Friday,” Steely Dan I’d already been humming this song this morning when I saw a New York Time’s blog post with a video of a live performance. Enjoy the killer guitar solo. Definitely beats shopping on this most frightening of days.

To see and see again: Lillian Hellman and “The Little Foxes”
Pictured standing (left to right) John Shepard, Chris Landis, and Ross Bickell. Seated is Helena Ruoti. Photo credit: Pittsburgh Public Theater. In 1982 I was Lillian Hellman for fifteen minutes. For 10th grade English class, we were each asked to choose an author and to research and report on that author. We were encouraged to dress like the author, bring visual aids, and generally get into the assignment. I had read Pentimento

Tin hat
Me in foils, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey. This evening I had my hair colored and cut. I thought of taking a photo of myself all done up in foils as I was getting my hair highlighted. Almost immediately I thought better of it. Instead I made this sketch. My stylist said it looks like me —

The view from the snowflake truck
View from the snowflake truck, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey. This Sunday morning, at the alarmingly early hour of 6:30am, I and a group of other volunteers for Butler Downtown helped to set up the electric snowflake decorations on Main Street, Butler, P

We have a winner! And facts about high-speed novel writing are reaffirmed
We have a winner of the “No Plot? No Problem!” novel-writing kit: Scott Cowley Scott says he is working on his first NaNoWriMo novel, and we can hope this kit will help him in his high-speed creation of novelistic wonder. How is my own NaNo novel coming? Here’s what I’ve learned in the past week: The minute I announced that I would be posting my novel to the web in draft form on the day I w