SparkLife posts by brandon specktor

Ernest Hemingway, who shot at German soldiers and wild lions on the regular, was onto something with his short, aggressive sentences.

There's power in brevity.

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Pull out your tissues, Sparklers, because with 100% of precincts reporting, we can officially call it: Justlena Biebomez is no more.

Yes, the too-cute-to-cut-it celebrity couple, ...

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Snow days and transit muck-ups are finally coming to an end in the wake of Superstorm Sandy and last week's adding-injury-to-more-injury Nor'easter sneak attack, and ...

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Fame is unkind. Remember, a few weeks ago, when Bieber ralphed onstage in Phoenix but his pre-recorded vocal track just kept right on playing? Yeah…not ...

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On her birthday Katy looked blueSo I knew just what I must do:I'd unleash that one giftTo make her mood shift(And maybe she'd smooch me once More»

Sparkler AwesomePossum214 addressed the following prompt for her college apps: "Tell us about an experience in which you left your comfort zone. How did this ...

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Unless you've been living under a troll's swollen buttock you know that J.K. Rowling released her first non-magical novel a few weeks ago, and that ...

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J.K. "Slippery Jo" Rowling was in NYC this week to promote The Casual Vacancy and be generally British and awesome. Alas, our strongest attempts to ...

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When an idea goes viral, there is almost always a point of saturation where that idea becomes so common, so widely expressed that it loses ...

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We're reading The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling. This is our 11th and final installment of the book club. Join our discussion in the ...

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