Allie Larkin is a blogger and the co-founder of The Greenists. She’s also a friend of mine in that sort of odd, social media generation, never actually met her sort of way.
More auspiciously, however, her debut novel “STAY” is being released this week by Dutton.
I got my review copy last week but before I [...]
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Solomon falls on his face in love with me.
Ramble up the stairwell, into the hall of books
As I was walking by the university library on my way to lunch today the automatic door slid open, temporarily smothering me in luscious air condition and that particular smell of library. I stopped in my tracks, caught in a Proustian flashback.
I’ve always been most comfortable in libraries. In Junior High school, my best friend and I used [...]
I have to sing about the book I read
Thanks to Jen and Zen Mom for the heads up about Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the freedom to read. I’m a big freedom of expression Lefty and I find censorship of any kind intolerable. I wrote a post about my experience with books and the people who ban them last year and didn’t [...]
Today was good. Today was fun.
Last weekend was ruined because of a self-induced work backlog that kept me in front of the computer for most of Saturday and Sunday. This weekend was nearly ruined due to some virus that Dr. O’C brought home from work. But with ample and appropriate combinations of various pharmaceuticals, I managed to stay upright for [...]
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I like themes and, inadvertantly, this week seems to have developed into ‘Moronic Debauchery of Yore Week’, subtitled ‘Great Figures in Twentieth Century American Literature’. Who am I to buck a theme. Thinking about that gun and poor decision making under the influence of mind altering substances, I’ve got another one for you.
Let’s head back [...]
Finger Painting
All of you stay at home parents have my respect. One day a week of it leaves me feeling like I’ve been lobotomized with a butter knife. Don’t get me wrong, I love it and am grateful that I have the time to spend with the boy. Call me a masochist.
Thanks for the finger painting [...]
But no one ever gets the truth from plastic man
About midway through Yann Martell’s Man Booker Prize winning novel “The Life of Pi”, the protagonist finds himself washed up on an island populated solely by meerkats. After a time on the island he begins to suspect that all is not as it seems – the meerkats take to the trees every night and one [...]
Smoke some fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school.
23 Oct 2008 at 08:53
A Free Man
Books, Boy Z, British Artists, Dr. O'C, Films, Music, Time wasters, Videos
With exams due, lectures to prepare and reports to write, A Free Man has not enough feet in too many camps this week. My head’s all over the place and I’ve started posts about topics as diverse as sedition, mobile phones, Lyndon LaRouche and my bus ride to work. Instead, I’ve decided to harness all this disparate thought to [...]
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This week is the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, “the 27th annual celebration of the freedom to read. This freedom, not only to choose what we read, but also to select from a full array of possibilities.”
From the ALA, here is a list of the ten most challenged books of last year and the [...]
And Absolon has kissed her lower eye…
Just a warning in advance, I am in a bad mood today. Not in any kind of mood to mince words…
Strange Scottish Girl, who has a snazzy new site by the way, asked me the other day for a political post. I’ve not written one in a while, largely because the whole Sarah Palin nomination/ [...]
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