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I was born on Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina, then lived a while in Fayetteville, North Carolina, before moving, at the age of 5, to Walnut, NC. I graduated from Madison High School in 1977. After a brief time in college, I spent the most of the 1980s in Nashville, Tennessee, working as a songwriter and playing in a band. I spent most of the 1990s in school and now teach at a university in Tennessee. My household includes wife and son and cat. In South Carolina I have a son, daughter-in-law and two granddaughters.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Old Headline

Life is ridiculously busy right now, and I miss making my postings. I'm working on hiring a temporary secretary to replace last week's sudden retirement and trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing in the job I haven't even started yet.

Anyway, here's an item from today's Writer's Almanac. See if you can guess what the headline means:

Variety ran a famous cover story headline on this day in 1935, "Sticks Nix Hick Pix," which meant . . .

posted by mac | 4:03 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger nbta said...

I cheated and looked it up!

7/17/2007  
Blogger Ruth W. said...

Well, I didn't look it up, so what does it mean? Inquiring minds want to know..

7/20/2007  

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