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9/2 Updates

A warm welcome to the new followers that found the anthology through a twitter thread! Only one but quite relevant update this month contributed by a kind internet norm enthusiast: On Based On A True Story - a very insightful read!

As always, please feel free to reach out through the email in the About section if you've managed to catch any of Norm's work that isn't on the website yet. Happy that we can all celebrate Norm's literary genius together!

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4/12 Updates

What? An update from Norm Twitter Anthology? Surely you're hallucinating! Perhaps you've ascended into the afterlife and this is all some post-mortem vision. Anyways.

In the wake of recent events, the addition of the following:

To Notable Quotes: On OJ Simpson, On Literature

To Short Stories and Essays: The Great Depression

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11/5 Updates

Working on:

creating a Wayback Machine backup for all pages in the anthology

doing a second chronological runthrough through tweet archive

some finnicky CSS formatting

In an aside, its hard to believe it's been more than a year.

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8/16 Updates

The following additions were made:

Major Jokes section reformatting, and following sections added: 2013 Short-Form Jokes, 2016 Jokes, 2016 Democratic National Convention

To poetry: No. 4 & No. 9 (thanks to Ryan for contributing!), Untitled No. 1

To short stories and essays: On #LateLateNormNorm

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3/25 Updates

The following additions were made:

To Short Stories & Essays:

The Pacific

Oakalla Is Gone

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3/23 Updates

The following additions were made:

To Notable Quotes: On Compassion, On Fullness

To Stories: The Voices

To Poetry: Second Death

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3/21 Updates

The following additions were made:

To Short Stories & Essays: So-Slow and Swinemeat: Parts 1-4

To Poetry: Randy Howard

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3/14 Updates

The following additions were made to Short Stories & Essays:

On Trump and Comedy

At A Crossroads

Working on:

Formatting more short stories

An archival spreadsheet with dates, secondary sources, and content

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Important Update

Hello friends. Unfortunately, grad school has been too much, and I'll have to take somewhat of a hiatus for now. I'll be continuing work behind the scenes at a snail's pace and will also be checking the twitter anthology email on a daily basis, so feel free to reach out! I'm always looking for collaborators so if you'd like to have a hand in putting the anthology together, that would be immensely appreciated and your work would be rightfully credited.

In lieu of my foreseen absence, I'd like to post some of Dylan Macdonald's (Norm's son's) writing! From what I understand, Dylan has a PhD in Rhetoric and has a lot of published work online! Please check out some of his stuff below:

What Will Happen to Flowers When You Die

Poetry By Dylan Macdonald

She Has Brown Eyes, Brown Hair, and Freckles

I'm sure his deep passion for literature and poetry has made his father proud.

I'll keep posting here as updates continue to roll in!

Best,

Norm Twitter Anthology

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2/15 Updates and To Do

The following was added:

To Short Stories: The Life and Death of Gertrude Dash, Ben At The River

To do:

The long-avoided Jokes section reformat

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2/12 Updates

The following changes were made:

Added to Short Stories: Steve Shuster, Garry Shandling, The Grocery Store

Added to Poetry: Proverbs

Added to Notable Quotes: On Bombing

On an unrelated note, still struggling to find a good way to reformat the Jokes section

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To Do: Week of 2/7

To work on this week:

Major reformatting and additions to Jokes section

Possibly add Billie Jean King story

Steve Shuster tribute

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2/4 Updates

The following changes were made:

Added to short stories: The Hard Man, Arrow Flight 1285, The My Lai Massacre, The Holy Man, Danny

Added the Remember section in short stories to categorize war-related and tragedy-related stories posted within a close timeframe in December 2012

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To Do: Week of 1/31

Will be working on compiling and putting up the following:

bar fight story from Feb 2018

additional war stories sent in by NosferatusDemeanor

additional 2011-2013 jokes sent in by anonymous user

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Will post on reddit tomorrow!

Kind of apprehensive for the big day, hopefully we can reach a wide audience. The rate of uploads will probably slow down a little from here out.

In good news, we're officially on the Norm Macdonald subreddit menu (under Norm Content)! In the meantime, please enjoy cheese Norm.

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1/28 Updates

The following changes were made:

Added to notable quotes: On Bob Einstein, On Humility

Added to short stories: The Great War, Corporal Leo Major, Big Bill, The PGA Championship

Moved to poetry: Swings, Forgetting

Added to poetry: I Come From A Place, He Drowned In Mud, Forest Fire, Untitled

Added to jokes: Miscellaneous Jokes, Things I Am Thankful For, Day-vorces

Added an update log section

CSSed links into a vertical table format, moved update posts from the home page into the update log section

Corrected irritating font problem - should be all Times New Roman now

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1/27 Updates

Added the following:

To short stories and essays: The Knocker, Swings

To jokes: Six Long-Form Jokes From Two Days In 2013: Voice Throwin'; The Hunters; An Englishman, an Irishman, And a Scotsman; Phil, Jim, And Bob; The Gravy Ladle; Gramps On The 405

Added a poetry section