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In

Posted to 400 Words News on 12 April 2007, with 2 comments so far.

This morning, as I open my web browser to Arts & Letters Daily, I see a link to a New York Times article reporting that Kurt Vonnegut has died. Vonnegut passed away in Manhattan last night. He was 84. I haven’t picked up a Vonnegut book in years, but he and his work were a [...]

It’s New

Posted to 400 Words News on 24 March 2007, with 1 comment so far.

All right, Cutline is fully set up and I think that the appearance-tweaking is more or less through for now, aside from a couple little things I’d like to add (like a good ‘Digg this’ button on the individual post pages, for example)—but I’m certainly open to suggestions! Is the color scheme too damn red? [...]

Project Update

Posted to 400 Words News on 25 February 2007, with 1 comment so far.

Hi, Four Hundos. So: February is on its way out. Daylight savings time is, shockingly, just around the corner (it’s been moved forward this year). Bring it on. I can already feel spring fever, humming away in the background, waiting for its cue. I checked my email inbox yesterday, and realized that there’ve been over [...]

The

Posted to 400 Words News on 31 January 2007, with 5 comments so far.

Two nights ago, I had the good fortune to go to an event thrown by The Moth, New York City’s premier live-storytelling outfit. The event was part of their StorySLAM series, in which ten brave individuals take to the stage to tell a true personal story, in under five minutes, to an audience of their [...]