BrownoftheGlobe
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@ The National Gallery was a revelation to me. Incredible collection. And the archives...that's a full-time beat, or could be.
4:43 AM Nov 25th
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@ I have no book fetish. But reading is more than informational upload. Kindle is about selling/renting, not reading.
9:05 AM Nov 21st
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@ Does Google Books guarantee your intellectual property won't be spread across web for free? No. Hence restrictions.
9:00 AM Nov 21st
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@ The lack of availability of massive numbers of great books in e-format is not my fault, nor is it worth $330.
8:55 AM Nov 21st
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@ Thank you for the alert. No idea how that happened, and no idea how to delete it.
12:31 PM Oct 20th
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@ DId you choose that cover, George? Or was it someone else's pick?
9:32 PM Oct 15th
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@ Another problem: I write to figure out what I think, so hard 4 me 2 believe a tweet is publishable. Vanity, agh.
2:54 PM Sep 13th
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@ I want to use it more, but never seem to have time--too busy taking notes to actually tweet. Pathetically OS.
2:47 PM Sep 13th
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RT @: @ Any time for freewheeling off the boat? George, are you kidding? Barely time to look.
8:42 AM Sep 10th
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@ What is it that makes you think a story is great when you start the reporting, and then days later think, was I on drugs?
2:05 PM Sep 8th
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@ "My old friend the newspaper" would make a good memoir about...um, reading the newspaper.
1:54 PM Sep 8th
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Back from a week on Globe Mediterranean Odyssey cruise. Fascinating, also perfect reality TV. Could call it...um, Man Overboard?
9:36 AM Aug 31st
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@ Macaroons today? Thou art brave. Instead, I hauled out my ten year old unused Cuisinart ice cream maker. Strawberry. Incredible.
3:15 PM Jul 25th
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@ Martini of sloe gin and bitters; Manhattan with green chartreuse. Sounds hideous, wasn't. His degree is in math.
3:05 PM Jul 23rd
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Recommended: go The Hungry Mother in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and ask the bartender to invent a cocktail to suit your mood. He will.
4:40 AM Jul 22nd
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Just watched most of Topkapi (Melina Mercouri). Astonishingly bad what happened to movies in 1964? The absolute nadir.
6:59 PM Jul 21st
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@ Love writer's standing instruction to lawyer: "I'm going to get screwed, make sure they use lube."
7:56 AM Jul 16th
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Reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog after Richard Price's Lush Life. Two great books in a row. Almost a new record.
8:18 AM Jul 14th
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@ "Besides, being parsimonious with information is such an old-media mentality." That line is worth a long essay.
1:36 PM Jun 29th
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@ Jen. I meant Jen, Jan, she's obviously had one.
3:03 PM Jun 18th
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- Name Ian Brown
- Location Toronto, Canada
- Bio writing, painting, reading, skiing
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