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Author: David Prater
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Spark joy not war
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Hollywood agent
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“Hi David, I got your number through LinkedIn”
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#amnotprocrastinating #amtinkering #mkoi?
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Writing the unspeakable: On parenting and poetry
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Who are we to burden ourselves with such unrealistic expectations?
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What do you call writing that’s neither fact nor fiction, and over in a flash? Flash faction, of course! Ehm, well … whatever the terminology (microfiction, sudden fiction, prose poetry), it’s a genre or set of genres I’ve tinkered with on and off over the years. My 2005 Imaginary Cities: PC Bangs project was essentially 40-odd…
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Folding their clothes
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i.m. Gunilla Bergström (1942–2021)
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Writing about ‘The Americans’ with Alicia Sometimes
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It seemed that the show’s producers had spent more on wigs than they had on the script.
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Line dancing with Matthew Rhys
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for alicia sometimes
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You’re Killing Me: An update
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So excited that I just had to share this here, too. My imaginary #Netflix series ‘You’re Killing Me’, a gritty, eight-part murder mystery based on the true story of US indie rock band #Pavement, has been name-checked on a podcast about Pavement, entitled The Pavement Conundrum! Listen in from 27:20 to 28:35 for some smooth…
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“Because parenting isn’t a real career”
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I am humbled, proud, excited and just a tad braggish to announce three huge milestones in my previously unacknowledged career as a parent. First, our oldest child, who is six, started school this week, and kicked so many goals in doing so that it left a small, permanent tear in the corner of my eye.…
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10K Ultra (JK)
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Anyone who’s known me for longer than five minutes might want to sit down for this post. Today I ran a 10-kilometre race for the first time in my 49 years on this mortal coil. I’m now collapsed on the couch having applied a full bag of peas to my right knee, imbibed an ibuprofen-paracetamol…
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I’m really proud to have played a small part in helping the International Forum for the Challenges of Peace Operations put together the second edition of its groundbreaking study on leadership in UN peace operations, Considerations for Mission Leadership in UN Peace Operations. My role in the project entailed editing and bringing together six chapters…
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While the history of Dag Hammarskjöld’s Oxford lecture could fill a book, this post explores the untold stories behind three known versions of the text.
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Stéphane Mallarmé is dead. Long may his absence linger. Long may the horrifying abyss of the white (and black) pages confound we poets, prattlers and plagiarists. And long may we question the substance of our languages, the correspondences between organic, systemic lifeforms and the unstoppable progress of symbols: numbers, letters, marks, voids . . .…
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Eksell WordPress theme
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There are layers of nerd in the WordPress universe.