All Posts Tagged With: "macguffin wednesdays"

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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 83

macguffin wednesdays:
My father was not much of an adventurer. He was a banker. He underwrote loans. He combed his hair over his bald spot. He watched the Yankees. I became a paleontologist just so I could get outside and study something; the thought of an office job gave me the screaming willies. So when I [...]

30Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 78

Macguffin Wednesdays:
Dump trucks have fascinated me - they’re huge, powerful, spraying rocks dirt on the road, destroying windshields and blocking vision. They’re usually too dirty to identify where they’re working, and most don’t even have license plates.
Is it just me, or is a dump truck the best spy/convict vehicle?
The News From Poughkeepsie is a daily [...]

16Jul2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 64 - Fool Week

(one month till I turn 35. Just saying.)
Macguffin Wednesdays
Kathy, the janitor of Trump Tower who moonlighted as the fool, although no one knew it. She had taken her dice bag to work with her, and left it behind on one of the floors. Kathy’s dice bag was reknowned among the game-playing janitorial staff for being [...]

25Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 57

Macguffin Wednesdays
Campbells decided to discontinue its line of Bean With Bacon, which upset neighbors Clarabelle Smith and Angela Peterson, who would meet for a bowl of soup on Wednesdays to talk about their grandchildren. They each ordered a case of soup from the company, and then the women started to notice their stash was depleting [...]

18Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 51

Macguffin Wednesdays
I love my iRiver. The problem I have with it is sometimes if it’s in a bag and the HOLD button isn’t on, it’ll start recording if I bump it. I’ve recorded hours of static silence and an occasional muffled conversation before. Runs down the batteries, fills up the memory, and essentially pisses me [...]

11Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 44

Macguffin Wednesdays:
A statue of Cthulhu is making the rounds of local ministers’ houses. Each minister claims s/he doesn’t worship it, no, no, but for some reason they pass it around. Every 2 weeks it goes to a new minister. They are Christian ministers, different denominations, but each one knows about the statue and keeps it [...]

4Jun2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 37

MacGuffin Wednesdays:
I love quests for the magical blade. I know it’s tired and I know it’s cliche, but I have a firm belief that cliches can always be reawakened and viewed from a different angle. How about if the metal from Excalibur was recast as a chef’s knife, a pocket knife, and the metal teeth [...]

28May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 30 - Pie Week!

Pie week continues!
Macguffin Wednesdays: (Been waiting for this one)
One thing Bobbi Jo could do was bake a pie. She was so good that she was considered the obvious winner of the county pie bake-off, and Deena thought about not even entering. But she walked in with a pie box, put her pie on the table, [...]

21May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 23

Macguffin Wednesdays:
A book is found in an old bookstore, and it’s encrypted in a sophisticated cypher that has three different messages, depending on which key you use. Three organizations in the city have the three different keys. They’re very different organizations, (say, the Masons, the Nurse’s Union, and the Boy Scouts) groups that never found [...]

14May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued