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Monday Hedges
I'm watching the formation of the Obama Cabinet, and I'm almost buying the rhetoric that he's gathering a collection of responsible thinkers, regardless of party. But where are the progressives?
As always, keeping me from getting too caught up in Hope, Monday is Chris Hedges day at Truthdig: Leave a commentI alway wanted to be a whore,
But I could never find buyers.
I'm not sure if posting this here is whoring or pimping: http://www.fairfoodfight.comBragging on me.
Have I mentioned that I write? Not regularly, but often enough that over the last fifteen years I've managed to have a few short stories published. And enough of my ego survived the brutal process of submitting fiction for publication, that a few years ago I decided I should tackle novel writing. In June of this year I finished the first draft ( Read more... )Not worth a post, but
there's nobody around to listen me rant about John and Sarah's claim to be "the original mavericks". Other than the outright bold-faced lie of that shit, isn't that some sort of violation of the code of mavericks? It's like calling oneself "cool." Isn't it an inviolable tenet of "cool" that to state "I'm cool" is the un-coolest thing one can ( Read more... )New Friends
If you grew up in Minnesota, there's a good chance that the friends you had the day you graduated high school form the core of your friendship group today. Some of us adopt our partners friends and we occasionally add a few work friends into the mix, but if you hold a party, the work friends almost never mix with "real" friends. For me, the same ( Read more... )Worst Books I Ever Read
Kelly McCullough posted a comment on the Wyrdsmiths blog about what makes a book interesting. Being at heart a negatavist and naysayer, I felt compelled to post on what I really don't like in a book. For the most part, I like reading, and I'll read a variety of styles, genre, subjects, and feel that the time was well spent. I've also read a fair ( Read more... )(Untitled)
Shortly after getting my driver's license I got a job delivering pizzas. A good chunk of the job involved sitting around waiting for a pizza to cook, so I spent a lot of time reading. I always have a book nearby, but one slow night when nobody in the world wanted pizza, I ran out of book. In desperation I grabbed the book which had been ( Read more... )Captains Courageous
There are books I'm afraid to reread, lest the close-minded, opinionated prick I've become deflate my fondly held youthful memories. I've often found that the euphoric recall of reading gets undermined by the nasty reality of shitty prose, bad writing, or just crap story-telling. I tried to read Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time to my daughter ( Read more... )Catholic School Kid
Somehow I ended up attending Catholic schools from 5th Grade through High School. Given that I converted from Catholicism to Atheism when I was about ten years old, this seems like an odd choice for me to agree to. I guess I wasn't very evangelical about the conversion.
That said, there is a cultural identity to the parochial school experience ( Read more... )First Post-You Are What You Read
I'm never finished with a book. I've spent the past few weeks thinking of the books I've read during my life, and I've been struck with how much I remember of them, but also, with how they "feel" in my memory and how they continue to affect me. Books have changed who I am and how I think. Since this is the very first post commenting on how those ( Read more... )