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It has been a while since I posted anything to my blog....summer has slid thru and fall is on the doorstep and I can not help but ask

"Where did the time go?"

I have much to share of the last 4 months. Wow, 4 months....it seemed like years yet it pasted as quickly as a summer's thunder storm.

Contradiction I know, but it seemed to take forever to get things done and and at the same time I never seemed to have enuf time.

Once ...

I am not one for seasonal reading but when it comes to October I do like to embrace my dark roots and select books that are Halloween appropriate in some form. My selections are not necessarily always horror strictly speaking, but at least have some dark, or disturbing element to them.

So this is my October line up:

American Pyscho by Bret Easton Ellis

Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Death with Interuptions by Jose Saramago ...

OK, I haven’t exactly made up my mind on whether this is a good idea, but it’s going to happen. New York City in its wisdom will be building the largest Ferris wheel in the world and it will be located on Staten Island, my home town borough. Quick New York City geography lesson: NYC is made up of five boroughs – Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island), the last one there the smallest, least populated, least known, often called the “forgotten ...

Today is Friday, my son is at school but I'll go pick him up in a few minuets. I don't have school on fridays so I have been reading and doing stuff I need to do, house work and things like that. I am currently reading 'Regeneration' by Pat Barker and enjoying it a lot. I am also reading Wolf's autobiography.

I am very busy at school as usual and just read a whole lot. My son is going to his dad today so I am gonna try and get a lot done this weekend. For the first time since we ...

The Hobbit is coming to the movies towards the end of the year and looks as good as the Lord of the Rings was. I'm doing my daily check of certain websites for comics/movie news when there is an article on a female character Tauriel in the film. The Grumpy Dinosaur searches thru his few active brain cells trying a bit desperately to remember this lady from the book. With no success. The short term memory loss that has been troubling him lately is spreading to long term having last read the Tolkien ...