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Back Fence PDX Day!

Posted on | November 19, 2008 | 6 Comments

I totally relate to today’s Back Fence PDX post. It’s by Geoff Kleinman author of On PDX, which is a great Portland blog. The writing is clean and tight and the stories are always news to me — love it!. His story is about not being a holiday person. I am not a holiday person, Internet. If Christmas never happened again, I wouldn’t even notice. Thanksgiving I like, because I like cooking, but I’m always confused about the whole “we can’t eat until the big dinner, which happens at 2:14pm, because uhhh, I don’t know why.” You should know, Fan Club, that I eat a lot. A lot. And when I eat at 2:14 and am expected to then not eat until the next day, well, I think that’s lame. Really lame and it makes me grouchy.

Where was I? Oh yes, clean writing. On PDX is totally awesome. And I’m a big fan of Geoff’s writing. Especially when he compliments me. So go check out his story at Back Fence PDX.

We’re selling tickets to the next show here.

And, please register for my class on 12.13. If you liked my Ignite presentation, this is the extended remix, with free lunch thanks to Rick Turoczy.

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6 Responses to “Back Fence PDX Day!”

  1. Kiala
    November 19th, 2008 @ 9:55 am

    I only use Seventh Generation products to clean my writing.

    This makes me superior.

  2. Robert
    November 19th, 2008 @ 1:43 pm

    I would have registered for your class if it was 12/13… in 1914! Think about it!

  3. ML
    November 19th, 2008 @ 1:50 pm

    wait. what rule are you talking about? i’ve never heard of this rule.

  4. stoogepie
    November 19th, 2008 @ 2:09 pm

    I want to attend the Long Lunch PDX class while I sit on my ass in New York or some other godforsaken city somewhere in the universe that is highly unlikely to be Portland. Any chance of that happening?

    Would learning clean writing even make my dirty stories better?

    Oh, it doesn’t matter anyway because I really want to learn about tight writing. Writing so tight that it could squeeze the stupid out of Sarah Palin. Make it so, Ms. Lion.

  5. Boldmama
    November 19th, 2008 @ 5:37 pm

    I just watched that video coverage that the Ignite website linked to and that guy was pretty darn clueless. I think he called you Melinda?!

  6. ken
    November 20th, 2008 @ 7:26 am

    mmmm.

    clean and tight.

    but is it legal?

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