Monthly Archives: August 2006

“A Change of Seasons”

8/31/2006 – 2:40 pm

/ Hey, good news! My contributor’s copies for the Sep/Oct issue of Cicada arrived in the mail today. Cicada’s harder to find than some other mags, but try looking in the children’s or young adult section of the magazine rack of your favorite bookseller.
My story "A Change of Seasons" was written in week 3 [...]

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“Beowulf Had An Unusual Name”

8/31/2006 – 10:00 am

That’s the opening line to the essay “Beowulf: Fiction or History?” which appears on a fundamentalist homeschooling website, which I was pointed to by John League via Making Light.
It’s a very weird essay that doesn’t really talk all that much about the poem, focusing instead on history and, curiously, etymology. The author tells a [...]

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Just a Thought

8/30/2006 – 10:01 am

Just want to throw this out there because it’s been bothering me for awhile.
You don’t need me to tell you that the nation’s swung hard to the right ever since our esteemed Leader took over piloting the ship and has been looking for icebergs to ram ever since. I’m greatly troubled by the fact [...]

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Dylan and the Dead

8/29/2006 – 10:02 am

So I’ve listened to Bob Dylan’s latest effort Modern Times a couple times through. It’s good. It’s not great. However you felt about Love and Theft is a good indicator of how you’ll feel about Modern Times.
In fact, I mentioned to Andy that I thought you could probably throw the 22 tracks [...]

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The Blowhard Bloweth

8/29/2006 – 8:54 am

Via Bill Shunn:

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 86% Expert!

You did so extremely well, even I can’t find a word to describe your excellence! You have the [...]

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The Home Stretch

8/28/2006 – 10:45 am

Plenty to blab about this Monday morning. Last week of work, praise the Lord.

At long last, UHR 2000 pictures have been posted.

This was the one that got the ball rolling. Jed and Skip came out to Washington State for a backpacking trip in spring of 2000 in the North Cascades Nat’l Park. [...]

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Glory, Glory

8/25/2006 – 12:41 pm

Reminder for those footie inclined: Tottenham Hotspur faces Everton tomorrow, televised LIVE on Fox Soccer Channel @ 9:00 am central time. I believe it’s the first time Spurs will be broadcast on these shores this season. Should be a cracker as Everton isn’t half bad.

GolTv has a nice slate of La [...]

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

8/25/2006 – 9:41 am

I’d say excuse me for being self-indulgent but, after all, this is my blog; what better place to be self-indulgent?
Anyway, the unearthing of old photos is pretty much complete and I thought I’d do some before-and-after comparisons between me as a high school student and some more recent photos to demonstrate how, like a fine [...]

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Footie Comments

8/24/2006 – 4:16 pm

Per usual, Phil Ball hits all the nails on the head in his preview of La Liga. The man has a knack for capturing all that is Spain and all that is footie.
La Liga’s back this weekend, a bit later than everyone else of course, but this is Spain. The early bird may [...]

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9/11 and Revisiting the Past

8/24/2006 – 9:52 am

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I stumbled across the graphic adaptation of the 9/11 report on Slate last night. It’s a graphic novel by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón and should put to rest the notion that the “comic book” can’t be a serious medium. I read most of the first section without blinking, I think, and couldn’t [...]

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