Excuse #457: I’ve been pretty busy. Too busy to dig down and find enough energy to write a post that would be worth a d**n. But—things will ease up starting next week and I hope to make up for lost time. My statistics have gone south, with an abysmal 17 visitor average. This is what happens when you don’t post or comment. I need to start making the rounds again. It was different when I worked at the reference desk, lots of free time to write. On Sunday I’ll definitely have time to sit down and produce something. If any of the 12 visitors (you know who you are, three sisters and the guy from Slovania) that view this post want to help me decide what to write about here are some things I’m thinking about:
Why the new REM album has restored my faith in human kind
The weird people who live in my town (present company included)
The Rooster that used to live in my neighborhood
A new mock-meme
Anyway, see you later…
Obama for President
About Me
- IM
- I use this blog to write about my life primarily. I don't post regularly, but I try to get at least 2 posts in a month and sometimes more. I'm about to start a masters in history after 15 years as a catering chef. I like goals, even if I don't reach all of them.
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Books 2008
- Inhuman Bondage, David Brion Davis
- Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World, Phyllis Hunter
- The Age of Reconnaissance, J.H. Parry
- Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century, April Lee Hatfiield
- The Columbian Exchange, Alfred W. Crosby
- Facing East From Indian Country, Daniel Richter
- Atlantic History, Bernard Bailyn
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
- The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster
- Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
- The Izu Dancer and Other Stories, Yasumari Kawabata
- Duma Key, Stephen King
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
- Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1&2, Keiji Nazazawa
- Maus Vol. 1&2, Art Speigelman
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trial '72, Hunter S. Thompson
- Botchan, Natsume Soseki
- Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
- Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen
- In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Darling, Russel Banks
- The Barracks Thief, Tobias Wolff
- Blue Latitudes, Tony Horwitz
- Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes
Books 2007
- On the Road, Jack Kerouak
- Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- Big Sur, Jack Kerouac
- Boy, Roald Dahl
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Tobias Wolff
- The Fortune of War, Patrick O'Brian
- Being There, Jerzy Kosinski
- Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy, Dmitri Volkogonov
- Death Note vol. 1 (manga) Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
- The Weimar Republic, Detlev J. K. Peukert
- Flight Vol. 3
- The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
- Travels with Myself and Another, Martha Gellhorn
- Gellhorn, A Twentieth-Century Life, Caroline Moorehead
- Roasting in Hell's Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay
- The Russian Revolution, Sheila Fitzpatrick
- Out of Africa, Karen Blixen
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
- Flight Vol. II
- Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
- In Pharoah's Army, Tobias Wolff
- Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
- Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
- We Die Alone, David Howarth
- This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff
- A Year In Provence, Peter Mayle
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
- Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
- Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Best American Comics of 2006
- Lenin's Tomb, David Remnick
5 comments:
I vote for the rooster. linser
One of the visitors is me.
Funny, I was going to ask the twelve people who read my blog the same question. I'm with Lindsay: I vote for the rooster. (I want to hear about strange people, too, but the rooster comes first. I'm ignoring the R.E.M. post because months ago, I suggested you and I both write our takes on the new R.E.M. -- and R.E.M. in general, and then I dropped the ball on that one, but I'd love to hear your take on it, with or without my own).
so far that's two votes for the rooster so that'll have to be next.
Welcome May, hope you enjoy my ramblings.
I think I'll do a music post about the four brilliant albums I've been listening to lately Emily. REM will be included.
I vote for the weird people who live in your town mainly because I'll know a lot of them and enjoy the memories of when I used to live there.
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