Activitystory: » text http://activitystory.com/blog Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:21:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to Communicate Your Ideas in 1967 http://activitystory.com/blog/2012/01/04/how-to-communicate-your-ideas-in-1967/ http://activitystory.com/blog/2012/01/04/how-to-communicate-your-ideas-in-1967/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:21:04 +0000 patrick http://activitystory.com/blog/?p=765 Picked up this 1967 EXECUDISC LP in Rochester a few weeks ago. Eight bands of tips on composing your dictations for maximum managerial value!

The sleeve indicates that each band is a locked groove so you have to intentionally move to the next track, but my copy played right on through.  I love the ambient office noise. Click the image to listen / download. Ripe for a remix!

 

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Everytime I see CYOA as an acronym, I think of teaching i312. Man, I miss that.

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He (George Saunders) had a good recent story in the New Yorker as well.I should mention that it is now my job to know this type of thing. Hat tip to Google Alerts for keeping me informed.

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dome book

Documentation of Complete Publications in PDF form.

via ManyStuff.org

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I Wonder
Are You Real?
My Dying Machine
You Are, You Are
Complex
ME
I’m an Agent
I, Assassin
I Die, You Die

Side Two:
Oh! Didn’t I Say
This Is My Life
Me! I Disconnect from You
Everyday I Die
I Can’t Stop
I Can’t Breathe
This House Is Cold
We Are So Fragile
Glitter and Ash

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Anyway, it seems like they’ve recently expanded their online archive to include stuff from 1994, featuring a piece I wrote about local Dallas band the Voyeurs.  I remember being a little embarrassed that the story got the headline "Vibrator Dependent," especially when my mom sent clippings to my grandparents, extended family, and neighbors. But I’m guessing that that’s nowhere near the embarrassment the real Patrick Williams, Editor-in-Chief, feels when my story is attributed to him (it’s the earliest piece attributed to someone with our name on the site).

I loved working at the paper, but it was the place where my dreams of being a journalist when I grew up died.  I couldn’t handle all the phone calls.  Unfortunately, in the past 10 years, I’ve published nothing else about vibrators.

Here’s a scan of some other stuff I wrote for the Observer, in what is probably a total violation of copyright law. If you want to know how "The Best of [Your City]" gets chosen, let me know. 

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