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Books: A Few Seconds of Panic, Word Freak, Wild and Outside. Talk: @Slate's Hang Up and Listen. Ex: @WSJ @NPR @AP. Writing: Book on @MerriamWebster.
Apr 18, 2020 14 tweets 4 min read
Day 1 of the Quarantined High School Championship Online (QuaHSCO) in the books and it featured one of the craziest sequences I've ever seen in Scrabble. And I've seen a lot of Scrabble. And it involved my daughter. Chloe is facing the No. 2 seed, an amazing player, her good friend and most of all a lovely kid named Jem. He's just played EXPLORE using both blanks and is ahead by 160 points with not many tiles left in the virtual bag. Image
Jan 23, 2019 31 tweets 5 min read
My 12th-grade English teacher blacklisted actors, directors, producers, singers, writers, and journalists during the McCarthy era. (Thread) Vincent Hartnett studied Bolshevism at Notre Dame and was a naval intelligence officer in World War II. In the late 1940s, while working for a radio and TV producer, he claimed he saw Communist efforts to “colonize” the New York entertainment industry.