Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
the countdown has begun
there isn’t always a countdown. i’ve resisted the urge to do so the last few years, but for some reason, i am ALL ABOUT m embracing my customary (though admittedly ridiculous) amount of enthusiasm for all things birthday.
so, at T- 32 days, there is still much to be done:
find purple gloves and red wig for [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Saddle up!
last weekend a friend and i went for a hike out in “Stub” Stewart state park out near Vernonia. i picked the hike primarily because i always tend to do gorge hikes, and was curious about the newest state park. of the offerings, none seemed especially difficult or lengthy, so i picked the one that [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Dress Up is My Favorite Game
and not only because my birthday is Halloween.
i am intoxicated by patterns and textures, bags and shoes, silk and corduroy. i delight in surveying, and selecting, just the right combination of my garments. i array myself with clothes like armor and go to face the world thus protected, or exposed, depending on my aim.
each occasion [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
The 19th Wife
By David Ebershoff
enjoyable to read, capably written, this novel approaches the history and present of multiple marriage within the LDS church.
a fan of historical fiction, i appreciated the extensive research and attention to detail the author afforded his subject matter. while the mormon church enjoys a wealth of documentation due both to its relative youth [...]
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
you put that in your MOUTH?!?
***part of a continuing series “Wholly Unsurprising Revelations”***
i am a picky eater. much less so than when i was a child, and would condemn foods from entire ethnic groups without ever having sampled them (this is how i missed out on hummus for most of my life, i feel my narrowmindedness has been duly punished, [...]
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Technically
i only don’t understand them.
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
only me, not you, just me
*** i consider this post the first in a series i am going to call “Wholly Unsurprising Revelations” if you care to make any yourself, please, feel free!!***
Wholly Unsurprising Revelation: It is no fun to have someone point out things you do not like about yourself.
i am well aware of my shortcomings. in fact, i [...]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Attack of Nostalgery
i am not likely to be elected spokesman for any video gaming company. i have terrible hand eye coordination and lack the obsessive devotion to repetitive tasks so necessary for video-game mastry. however, when i was a young thing, i was madly in love with the commodore 64. and i am willing to bet i [...]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
The Rake
By William F. Buckley
plucked this one off of an endcap at the library and was hoping for better.
written in an approachable, easygoing tone, this novel took a different tack than the typical Washington Scandal Book, most of which are rigid, intense, and gripping. here instead we had a scandal, cover up which resorts to arson [...]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
The Centaur
by John Updike
i realize this is meant to be a modern classic, but dudes, this is a weird little novel.
into what would otherwise be a poignant and well written character study, Updike has entwined strange tendrils of Greek mythology.
the opening scene is exemplary of this trend; we have our main character, a high school teacher, [...]