Soon to be a motion picture, the memoirs of Augusten Burroughs titled Running with Scissors is about a gay boy, his bizarre family, and earning a Ph.D. in survival.
“I can’t be a writer,” I said. “I don’t even write. All I do is scribble stuff in notebooks. I don’t even know what a verb is [...]
Archive for October, 2006
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October 28, 2006Rush Hour
October 27, 2006I apologize for letting the blog languish. Since my heart hasn’t really been in it lately, I decided to phone it in. In this case, that means calling the lovely Rush Limbaugh.
Step2: Mega dittos Rush! Those Dems have sunk to new lows this election haven’t they?
Rush: (clears throat/ruffles paper) The GOP is the only thing [...]
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October 21, 2006From Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
Igo, the sick old man, quoted the Oziad, and reminded them all of how creation worked: the Dragon of Time created the sun and the moon, and Lurline cursed them and said that their children wouldn’t know their own [...]
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October 14, 2006One of the most sweeping historical fictions I have ever read, Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War is hypnotic in its storytelling. The characters and plotlines are interwoven in a masterful style. He even includes a German perspective, based upon interviews and documents of Nazi officers, presenting it as chapters of another book called World Empire Lost within [...]
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October 7, 2006When people speak fondly of the Old South and the traditions and culture it upheld, I am always reminded of this paragraph from The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen where he describes a slave ship.
Because fresh air was required for product viability, five to six air ports were provided on each side of the [...]
