Pork and Beans by Weezer.

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So what do you think are the most attractive book covers?  You can name how many you want (1, 100… doesn’t matter), and I’ll put together a list later this week based on the responses.

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So it’s June 17 now, which means almost everyone in the Northern Hemisphere is out of school for the summer.  So, how will you be spending these sunny days?  Got a job?  Camp?  YWSing it up?

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So most everyone knows that Shakespeare invented the word assassination, right?
Well did you also know he invented the words academe, accused, addiction, advertising, amazement, arouse, backing, bandit, bedroom, beached, besmirch, birthplace, blanket, bloodstained, barefaced, blushing, bet, bump, buzzer, caked, cater, champion, circumstantial, cold-blooded, compromise, courtship, countless, critic, dauntless, dawn, deafening, discontent, dishearten, drugged, dwindle, [...]

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Normal Koran (Penguin Classics): 7.7 in x 4.8 in x 0.9 in; 11.2 ounces; 464 pages
Smallest Koran: 0.66 in × 0.50 in × 0.28 in; grams?; 571 pages
Published in Cairo in 1982, the world’s smallest Koran is unabridged, bound, and in Arabic.  It is currently owned by Dr. Muhammad Saeed Karim Beebani of Pakistan.

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So if you’ve made a comment lately, you’ve noticed that it needs to go through approval first.  I started doing this a few days ago because this blog has been getting a large number of hits due to a few posts made popular via stumbleupon.  While that’s great, it also means that the blog is [...]

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Dear Grammar Nazi Who Sits Behind Me,
I don’t know your name, although I think it begins with a B. You’ve been in my class for a few months now, and I feel quite foolish for not knowing how to address you. I’m often distracted by my own daydreaming, so please do not [...]

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Thought I’d try something new: I’ll make up a word, then everyone else has to come up with a definition for it.  The best definition will be chosen after an undetermined length of time, and the winner will have the honor of having invented a new word!
This week’s word is:
parathonal

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The scheduled maintenance is just about over with even as I write up this post.  The blog has been available now for quite some time, and the only thing holding the main site back is just restoring the immensity of the database.
Expect everything to be back up and running soon again though.

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Best movie quote in awhile…

“In my world everyone’s a pony and they eat rainbows and poop butterflies.” -Katie, Horton Hears a Who
It’s amazing how much humor is in kids movies that kids just don’t get haha.

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Giving away books for free to increase sales seems counter-intuitive, and maybe it is.  After all, why would you buy something when you can get it for free?  However, there is sense to it.  When you have a product that is so low in demand, giving it away for free is a great way to [...]

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….that 5 out of the last 10 (well, 6 now) posts had titles with questions in them?
 Interesting phenomenon….

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The new theme comes courtesy of http://www.blogohblog.com.
Decided to make a change as some Mac users were saying that there was a big black bar across the top.  I think it had to do with the stripes, but once I got rid of the stripes, it just looked weird.  So instead, just downloaded a new theme, [...]

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I started seeing it pop up as a joke a few years ago; that is, spelling ‘the’ as ‘teh.’ But now I’m seeing it more and more often, and even used in instances where the author isn’t joking. I have yet to see it in newspaper or books, but I see it all [...]

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Poetry my dear pal.  Absolute poetry.

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As I said in the post below, I’m off to the beach this weekend.  I’m going to check out a lighthouse or two, but mostly just going to be working on my motions brief for my writing skills class.  Got it back yesterday with a grade that was 10% higher than the average, which I’m [...]

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As astute readers will notice, this blog now has a slightly new name and a new logo.  I renamed it from the “Young Writers Society Blog” to just “Young Writers Blog.”  This is just a reflection that this blog is not really about the main site anymore.  Instead, it’s become a writing blog in an [...]

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Well… have you?  If not, just click that little “rss subscribe” button over at the top of the sidebar.

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“Write Gooder”

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I just finished sending inquiries to the four major Presidential candidates at this stage; Romney, McCain, Obama, and Clinton (sorry Rudy); concerning three non-political questions: their favorite book, favorite author, and what advice they have for aspiring young writers.
Hopefully, I’ll receive a response in due time, although I can only imagine the deluge of mail [...]

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Nate was in the midst of changing servers in YWS when he started tooling around with the code. YWS users, unaware of the dangers, logged on to YWS as if it were just any other day. The moment they clicked that log in button, they got more than they bargained for.
Read more in the storybooks [...]

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So what was your favorite book that you read in 2007?  Doesn’t matter if it came out in 2007 or not, but simply, what book did you read that you liked best last year?
For me, it was definitely “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.  It’s already in my top three favorite books of all time (the [...]

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For those of you here are readers of this blog & members at the main site, I thought I would go over some of the new features & many changes going on right now.
YWS Groups: Groups have always been around on YWS, but I recently did an overhaul to them.  Besides some cosmetic changes such [...]

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Even though it’s not writing related, I thought I would share the story of my Saturday yesterday as it is quite the humorous yarn. It also shows that it’s not just YWS that I mess up from time to time, but my computer as well.
The story begins about one month ago during the early [...]

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Literary elitism is no new thing.  A lot of those in academia view with distaste any views different from their own, though fortunately not a majority of those in academia act that way.  In Washington, DC, elitism comes in the form of making light of those views that come from outside the beltway.  In my [...]

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It’s the New Year, so what do you plan on doing with it?  Any resolutions?

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I’m thinking of putting together a testimonials page for YWS, so any comments here will help me in putting it together.  But caveat scriptor!  If you post a comment, you may just find it out on such a page!
In any case, has the Young Writers Society helped you with your writing?  And if so, how?  [...]

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Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas!  Everyone does something different for the Holidays, so I’m interested, what Holiday do you celebrate and how do you celebrate it?

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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Personally, I don’t know anyone named Mohammed…

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