"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He...
Congress does not understand what damage SOPA will do if they think anything can be struck from the public record.
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I imagine that the people who have taken this dry cleaner up on the offer will be repeat customers for life. This is not just an amazing kindness, this is excellent customer service/aquisition. (if anyone knows the origins of this photo, please let me know, it has been circulating around the interwebs for days)
via kurzweilai.net Ah, Ray, you really are wonderful.
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When the kid won't talk to you inside your actual house, don't worry, it all hangs out on Facebook... social media apocolypse.
RE: 0722-USF - Life In Perpetual Beta Dear Melissa, On behalf of the Sundance Programming team, we would like to thank you for submitting your film to the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Unfortunately, we are not able to include it in our program this year. With nearly 6,500 short films submitted for consideration, narrowing the field down to a final program of 81 was incredibly difficult. Please know that your film was carefully considered by our staff, and we viewed far more worthy films than we...