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Published On: 07-13-2007 12:30 PM
I'm off to NYC for the weekend for my annual pilgrimage. I hope that flying on Friday the 13th isn't something I end up regretting....
Anyway, don't break the internet while I'm gone!
Published On: 07-13-2007 12:30 PM
I'm off to NYC for the weekend for my annual pilgrimage. I hope that flying on Friday the 13th isn't something I end up regretting....
Anyway, don't break the internet while I'm gone!
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Published On: 04-04-2007 01:46 AM
justinspace.com's Justin Jorgenson has a site, and a book, called Obscene Interiors, whic he describes as "a collection of real online male personal ad photos and my critique of the decorating found within."
Don't worry, it's work safe. The often nude figures have been taken completely out, so all your left with is the sad, unintention message these guys send through their surroundings. If you like laughing at other people like I do, check it out.
http://www.justinspace.com/obscene/oi1intro.html
Published On: 04-04-2007 01:46 AM
justinspace.com's Justin Jorgenson has a site, and a book, called Obscene Interiors, whic he describes as "a collection of real online male personal ad photos and my critique of the decorating found within."
Don't worry, it's work safe. The often nude figures have been taken completely out, so all your left with is the sad, unintention message these guys send through their surroundings. If you like laughing at other people like I do, check it out.
http://www.justinspace.com/obscene/oi1intro.html
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Published On: 04-01-2007 21:48 PM
Today is Opening Day of the 2007 Major League Baseball season, and I couldn't be happier!
Mets and Cards tonight on ESPN2; me and the boy piled up on the couch pulling for the boys in blue! That's pretty close to heavenly to me.
Published On: 04-01-2007 21:48 PM
Today is Opening Day of the 2007 Major League Baseball season, and I couldn't be happier!
Mets and Cards tonight on ESPN2; me and the boy piled up on the couch pulling for the boys in blue! That's pretty close to heavenly to me.
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Published On: 02-22-2007 15:35 PM
As I think about the "surge" that our leaders are too cowardly to prevent, and the 3150+ American families that have paid so great a price for one man's inability admit his mistake, two news items from the UK caught my attention:
Today, 2/22/2007, Tony Blair announced that the UK is preparing to pull about 1600 British troops from Iraq.
This same day, the British Ministry of Defense announced that Prince Harry -- third in line to the throne -- will be shipping off to Iraq with his "Blues and Royals" regiment within the next few months.
Hello....Jenna? Barbara? Anyone?
Maybe the abstract needs to become personal for this man to finally get it.
Published On: 02-22-2007 15:35 PM
As I think about the "surge" that our leaders are too cowardly to prevent, and the 3150+ American families that have paid so great a price for one man's inability admit his mistake, two news items from the UK caught my attention:
Today, 2/22/2007, Tony Blair announced that the UK is preparing to pull about 1600 British troops from Iraq.
This same day, the British Ministry of Defense announced that Prince Harry -- third in line to the throne -- will be shipping off to Iraq with his "Blues and Royals" regiment within the next few months.
Hello....Jenna? Barbara? Anyone?
Maybe the abstract needs to become personal for this man to finally get it.
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Published On: 02-15-2007 13:06 PM
Last year, Time magazine came out with their list of the 100 greatest english-language novels from 1923 (just after Joyce's Ulysses) through 2005. I find the list to be better than these sort of things usually are, with a conscious effort to include a wide variety of genres and some lesser known titles. I have read 66
of these as of today, but I am going to try to complete this list by the end of the year. Its hard to criticize the choices unless I am familiar with each, though there are a few omissions that I can't image I would leave off my list, and a few of these that made it that I am... supicious...of. Anyway, here's the list, alphabetical by title. Did your favorites make it? Has anyone read more than 70 of them?:
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
A Death in the Family
James Agee
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance
James Dickey
Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
Falconer
John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
Herzog
Saul Bellow
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Light in August
William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving
Henry Green
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Money
Martin Amis
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs
Native Son
Richard Wright
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
1984
George Orwell
Read the Original Review
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Possession
A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart (demopolite recommends - will be next)
Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise
Don DeLillo
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
Published On: 02-15-2007 13:06 PM
Last year, Time magazine came out with their list of the 100 greatest english-language novels from 1923 (just after Joyce's Ulysses) through 2005. I find the list to be better than these sort of things usually are, with a conscious effort to include a wide variety of genres and some lesser known titles. I have read 66
of these as of today, but I am going to try to complete this list by the end of the year. Its hard to criticize the choices unless I am familiar with each, though there are a few omissions that I can't image I would leave off my list, and a few of these that made it that I am... supicious...of. Anyway, here's the list, alphabetical by title. Did your favorites make it? Has anyone read more than 70 of them?:The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
A Death in the Family
James Agee
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance
James Dickey
Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
Falconer
John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
Herzog
Saul Bellow
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Light in August
William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving
Henry Green
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Money
Martin Amis
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs
Native Son
Richard Wright
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
1984
George Orwell
Read the Original Review
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Possession
A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart (demopolite recommends - will be next)
Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise
Don DeLillo
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
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