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Yesterday, 01:58 PM
Also, bounty, bah-hahahaha,
I gotta get one of those bed covers!
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Yesterday, 01:55 PM
I found this from The Atlantic. It’s concerning the physiological limitations of the human body and the demands for ever more speed in major league...
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04-07-2024, 01:15 PM
Hey, I read Marley and Me a while back. Enjoyed it. At the time we had a dog named Molly, so for me the book was Molly and Me.
Gotta say, I...
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04-07-2024, 01:07 PM
Agreed. I caught a little of the Paris - Roubaix this morning.
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04-06-2024, 07:34 PM
I could stand to learn a little more Japanese. I’ve going there recently. I only know a handful of words, but I use all of them with every local I...
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04-06-2024, 12:38 PM
Ya know, I think that’s a valid defense for murder in some states:
Judge — Why’d you do it?
Defendant — He killed my dog, your honor.
Judge —...
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04-06-2024, 12:38 PM
Domo arigato.
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04-05-2024, 12:56 AM
Yeech! Brutal.
Collarbones and ribs snapping like twigs in Basque Country.
Meanwhile in L.A. a young pitching/batting phenom looses 4.5 mil in a...
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04-04-2024, 10:29 AM
***SPOILER ALERT***
The psycho killer, the bone collector, I more-or-less figured out. He was playing the cops with a specific target in mind —...
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03-31-2024, 06:08 PM
Gotta be a beast to ride in those conditions (and on those cobbles).
You know, come to think of it, I don’t think anybody has ever eaten Cracker...
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03-31-2024, 06:02 PM
I came across this simile in the book I’m currently reading, The Hunter by Tana French. I thought it was artful.
Trey (Teresa) is a boyish girl...
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03-31-2024, 01:34 PM
Hi tailor, Glad you enjoyed it. Just a bit of fun.
Live and be well - H
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03-30-2024, 05:27 PM
Baseball is back. Woo-Hoo…
So buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks
I don’t care if I never get back
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03-30-2024, 05:23 PM
I enjoyed The Bone Collector. Thanks for the rec. I particularly liked the science-y stuff. The twist/hook at the end seemed highly improbable, but...
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03-29-2024, 05:59 PM
Currently reading The Hunter, by Tana French.
I’ve read all her books, starting with In The Woods. Most of them are detective novels set in...
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03-29-2024, 05:46 PM
Haha!
Oh man, I needed that.
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03-29-2024, 05:45 PM
Good one, Danik. I like hearing that sort of thing from another language/culture. It sounds similar to what we do when we “whitewash” something....
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03-28-2024, 11:10 PM
Ouch!
That'll leave a mark.
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03-28-2024, 11:09 PM
Well, I enjoyed the Deaver book, The Bone Collector. I liked the science. Also he did a nice job building the characters. Here's a science-y metaphor...
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03-26-2024, 12:38 PM
Holy-Moly, I never knew what GORP stood for. I oughtta start a Great Acronym Thread.
Also, are you effing kidding me!? Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups...
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03-25-2024, 06:33 PM
If ya dig around there might be some raisins left.
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03-25-2024, 05:53 PM
Haha!
If the game of golf is a metaphor for life, then my name must be Mulligan.
Speaking of metaphors for life, I think Danik’s earlier...
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03-24-2024, 06:42 PM
Nice. I think I like that version better. Music has got to be the most collaborative of any art form. I’m thinking of people getting together with...
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03-23-2024, 10:43 PM
He’s a bit of a lug nut, but he’s our lug nut. Sergeant George Washington Hayduke, former Green Beret, has recently returned for Vietnam and is...
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03-23-2024, 08:26 PM
Oh man! That tune was hugely popular back in the day. It was a little before my time, but I can remember my mother singing along with it when it came...
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03-22-2024, 01:45 PM
Already I’m straying from the script. This one is a form not a device. It’s from the book I just finished, Twilight Territory by Andrew X. Pham:
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03-21-2024, 06:44 PM
Oh yeah, Deaver’s book is going swimmingly so far. I’m 3 or 4 chapters in and already I’ve learned a few things about the tribulations a quadriplegic...
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03-20-2024, 03:16 PM
Similes make me smile and I never metaphor I didn't like. All allegories are welcome; allusion, analogy, and alliteration too. Oh heck, any old...
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03-20-2024, 03:00 PM
Just now starting The Bone Collector, by Jeffrey Deaver.
The book I just finished, Twilight Territory, is a stand-out novel. It takes place over...
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03-19-2024, 04:44 AM
Yup, people have strong opinions about religion and faith. (And Sancho has a knack for stating the obvious.)
I’ve been reading Twilight Territory,...
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qimissung on 12-15-2012 at 02:13 AM
I live in the United States of America, and we had another school shooting today. With horror I listened to the news reports that a gunman had gone into an elementary school and killed 27 people, 20 of them “children between the ages of 5 and 10.” And I listened tiredly and wearily to the usual rhetoric of the newscast without end as they recounted the “worst school shooting in an elementary school.”
I guess they are doing the best they can, but you simply can’t put a qualifier or adjective
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qimissung on 04-03-2012 at 11:05 PM
One of my former students-he graduated last year-was shot and killed last night around 10 o'clock.
He had just finished playing a game of basketball and was sitting in a car on a dark street, with his cousin. They were waiting for his cousin's ride when another car drove up. It was someone they knew and they argued over a girl his cousin had been seeing. The young man in the car pulled out a gun and shot them. Victor was shot two times in the back. He was treated at a nearby hospital,
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qimissung on 01-04-2012 at 02:24 PM
I read several good books in 2011. I read "Candide," "The Crying of Lot 49", "Housekeeping," "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," and "The Dubliners." I read others, but these I read last fall and today it is of "The Dubliners" I speak.
I've been wanting to read something by Joyce. Eventually I hope to read "Ulysses." I think that might be akin to saying that someday I'd like to climb Mount Everest, for
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qimissung on 12-27-2011 at 03:20 PM
looking at it I knew it was different
a bird's nest
full of hope and fear
and the cavalier fulsomeness of life
the blind ability to get up each day under the weight of it all
to go out every day believing you were one of the masses
dressed in the same uniform
believing the same things
that god is good
that love will find a way
believing or hoping to believe that
the others would not notice your vampiric differences
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qimissung on 12-04-2011 at 08:13 PM
I got up yesterday morning, a Saturday, around 5:45. I washed my face and dressed and walked to my car in the dark. I stopped by my local Starbucks and treated myself to a tall mocha.
I then made my way down Midway to 635; from there to Central Expressway from which I exited at Northwest Highway. My destination was the Half-Price Books located there, or rather the warehouse that I knew was located near it.
Once I arrived I noticed, somewhat to my chagrin, that there
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