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Last night David Sedaris spoke at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, to a packed audience. He read recent stories, diary entries, unpublished work, and a little George Saunders. It goes without saying that the event was bittersweet and frankly, hilarious… and it would be a disservice to Sedaris to recount his wonderful [...]

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This is a bit cheeky, but I’m going to give it a go to see what happens.
When I was in a park yesterday, having lunch in the Loop, I overheard a conversation between a group of young women (who may or may not have been SAIC students), and one girl was complaining quite audibly about [...]

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At a recent party, I set up a whiteboard and pen, and wrote the words PALIN IS: at the top. The results were interesting, albeit not particularly intelligent.

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I have been living in the U.S. for a year now, but I still find I regularly encounter communication challenges in terms of translating American-English to English-English or Australian-English, and visa-versa.
And then there is Australian slang. This last week has been particularly bad, which involved me having lengthy, befuddling discussions with people about abattoirs (slaughterhouses) [...]

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A pattern is beginning to emerge…

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No doubt these clerks must treat sellers with the tenderness reserved for people balancing on the ledges of 20-story buildings.

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