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Last night, not one, not two, but three - yes that's right, I said three - teams chose to have their team name reflect on how much of a hot mommy and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is. We had Sarah Palin. Recommended: Augusten Burroughs and Tegan Quin at Housing Works Auditorium theatre chicago, Recommended: Augusten Burroughs and Tegan Quin at Housing Works Posted at 9:00 AM, September 4, 2008 Augusten Burroughs + Tegan Quin Thursday, September 4, 8 p.m. The Housing Works Bookstore Cafe 126 Crosby Street, 212-334-3324 Tickets at livefromhome.org/events That hilarious bald man Augusten Burroughs (author of Running with Scissors, Dry, Magical Thinking, etc.) used to seem a lot like that amusing receding-hairline-man, David Sedaris, what with their shared talents for making. 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In last month's issue Canadian musicians the likes of Final Fantasy, John K. Samson and Sara Quin walked through that door to solve people's problems. David Sedaris estate. Encountering Mass Historia David Sedaris tickets, Spent part of today at the Barnes .&.Noble, doing research for the .".Reader's Almanac.".book proposal. This was recommended by two of the books I checked out of the library (one of them.".Write the Perfect Book Proposal.".by Jeff Herman and Deborah Levine Herman, I highly recommend). The goal of the visit is to determine what category your book could be shelved in, and get an idea of what's already out there. It's strictly a marketing exercise, and if you've been as deeply involved in a project . PAINTER IN YOUR POCKET Fifteen ways to divide your artistic attention this fall LEONARD CUTROW'S ?TRANSITION? from ?CALIFORNIA, SEEN? 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