October 2010
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“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation...”
– Ross Macdonald, novelist (1915-1983)
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Spoiler Alert
I’m so mad right now that my brain, let alone my lips, can scarcely form a coherent thought, but I have a painfully furious thought that demands expression, so here we go.
I bought the book “The Elegance of the Hedgehog,” by Muriel Barberry, at the prompting of a bookseller as described in this previous post. I bought the book on the one condition that reading it would make me...
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If...
…the American version of Skins comes even a bit close to being as awesome as the British version of Skins, I’m in like Flynn.
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“Did it set me right? Never! Because I’m a Karamazov. Because when I fall...”
– Dmitriy Fyodorovich Karamazov
Cabernet, gruyere, brie, parmesan, and smoked gouda for dinner. Yum.
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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)
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My Droid X is dead again (ok, not really dead, because it was never really alive, but it won’t charge or turn on).
It picks the worst times to die.
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of...”
– H. G. Wells
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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel, theology professor (1907-1972)
“Money often costs too much.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.”
– John Webster
Torture really IS illegal, huh? →
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“Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your...”
– Jean Toomer, poet and novelist (1894-1967)
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How EVERYONE can retaliate against the Westboro... →
Regardless of your views towards the WBC, you’ll probably think this is an interesting tactic.
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