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  1. Funny story collections: NOTHING RIGHT by Antonya Nelson, WHERE THE MONEY WENT by Kevin Canty, and Robert Garner McBrearty's EPISODE.
  2. Overall, the funniest novels I read this year were Colson Whitehead's SAG HARBOR and Jess Walter's THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS.
  3. I put together a list of some of my favorite funny lines from 2009 books: http://bit.ly/5ugcMb
  4. I have a few guesses, but it wouldn't be nice of me to say. I wonder if the guy who invented Crocs has written a book? http://bit.ly/7hVRnS
  5. CO Daily reports everyone wants to know who the drunken Boulder author who stole his own books from @Boulderbooks is. http://bit.ly/7P1kG1
  6. I wish there were Zhu Zhu Pets when I was a kid instead of actual, crazed hamsters that gnawed their faces raw and ate their babies.
  7. The fabulously cranky Linda M. Hasselstrom discusses how to be a good neighbor in the West in NO PLACE LIKE HOME: http://bit.ly/65jW04
  8. New West Boise editor Jill Kuraitis is featured in QUILTING FOR PEACE for her Quilts over Kosovo project: http://bit.ly/6KcnN
  9. A Denver rich guy is now the benefactor for Cole, the impoverished school I went to, giving them $500,000 a year. http://bit.ly/60H1Oo
  10. Timothy Egan chafes at East coast ignorance of the West: http://bit.ly/8Uqcvh
  11. Sometimes when I'm tired of regular worries, I like to worry about the Yellowstone Caldera blowing. http://tinyurl.com/yas88rw
  12. Sigh. Bart's CD Cellar in Boulder is closing. That just leaves Albums on the Hill still standing. http://tinyurl.com/yag6gej
  13. Graywolf reissued the collected letters between Leslie Marmon Silko and the poet James Wright: http://tinyurl.com/ya8x65k
  14. Anyone read WESTERN by Christine Montalbetti? Supposed to be a PoMo cowboy novel, but my eyes glazed at the 9 page description of a chair.
  15. It's easier just to let it wail until it falls asleep. @colsonwhitehead I gotta Ferberize this manuscript.
  16. And Durango Mountain Resort revoked the season pass of a woman who criticized it in print: http://preview.tinyurl.com/ydv4ynp
  17. Susan Greene's piece about how Vail resorts convinced Summit News to fire a columnist who criticized them: http://tinyurl.com/6hjgtr
  18. CO Ski resorts have turned into big brother, revoking passes & getting a reporter fired @JillKuraitis http://bit.ly/5rKUaG
  19. RT @mathitak: Kirkus and me. http://bit.ly/7Leu2P
  20. You're welcome. Obsess away! @Lets_Lock_It_Up Thanks for your reviews of western books-my wife would disagree as it fuels my book obsession