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The Understanding Campaign: Who Cares?

"Fhm" for Halloween as drawn by Tai Turner

This post is about the ad you’ve been seeing here lately.

And okay, full disclosure for the blog cops:

Recently, Justin Sirois and I and a couple other bros from way back lit up the Baltimore streets with a big plastic owl that Justin had kept buckled into his backseat for years. The owl was called BSO, as in, “Back Seat Owl.” We took the BSO to play pool at Club Phoenix. We took him dancing and everyone hooted when he did a backspin. We even bought him beers at H.L. Mencken’s old hangout, the Owl Bar. Then we took him to play football in the street where, sadly, the BSO perished.

Which is meant to confess two things: one, Justin is my friend. Two, my man knows party fowl. READ MORE >

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November 1st, 2010 / 9:36 am

Understanding Campaign

The wonderful Justin Sirois of Narrow House and his MLKNG SCKLS co-author Haneen Alshujairy have created a campaign to teach the world one word of Arabic. I think this is a great idea. Buy a button, some stickers, share the image here!

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April 5th, 2010 / 9:26 pm

Secret Santa closes Dec. 15

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Sign up here by next Tuesday (more than 100 in so far). More info here.

[Big thanks to the excellent and wise-eyed Justin Sirois (Editor at Narrow House, author of the wonderful MLKNG SICKLS) for the Santa Image Magic.]

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December 11th, 2009 / 12:24 am

Thanksgiving 2009

ThanksgivingTheRoadCormac(thanks Justin Sirois)

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November 26th, 2009 / 11:38 am

Listen to a story today at noon

If you go here today at noon (EST, 25 minutes from right . . . now) you will be able to listen to The Signal, which is a really cool radio program hosted by my friend Aaron Henkin (an excellent poker player, great radio voice). On the program you will be able to hear my other friend Justin Sirois (terrible poker player, terrible radio voice, awesome writer) read from MLKNG SCKLS, his book about Iraq, as well as some other good literary thingses.

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August 7th, 2009 / 11:34 am