Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
On the Bookshelf: The Oxford Murders, by Guillermo Martinez
Okay, I didn’t like this one. But I think that part of the failing is mine, not the book’s.
“The Oxford Murders” was originally written in Spanish, and I’m ashamed to say that I could not get past that. The entire time I was reading it I kept thinking, “That’s kind of a strange way to [...]
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
In Case of Emergency
Okay, I have to stop watching the History Channel. How’d I spend my night last night? Why, watching a documentary about different ways the End of the World As We Know It could happen. And it got me thinking apocalyptic thoughts. I was still thinking apocalyptic thoughts when my mom called.
When I was little, we’d [...]
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
The books you haven’t read
My mom was on her way to a book club meeting when I called her on the phone. They were discussing “The History of Love” that night, and Mom confessed that she hadn’t gotten through more than the first half.
“Well, that’s no problem,” I said. “Just be the first person to speak up when they [...]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Random List #2: Names for the band I’ll form if I develop musical talent
That One Band (Our debut CD would be “One-Hit Wonders” and our 2nd CD would be “Letdown.” I came up with this in high school.)
Fuzzy Little Bunnies
Gravity Always Wins (This would be my Radiohead-tribute band.)
We Value Your Patronage
Dammit, Man!
Frogland Ambassadors
Dimestore Ninjas (Partial credit for this one goes to my work friend Rob.)
The Regretables
