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  1. Snowfall

    I woke up several times in the morning as is normal with me and finally took my major pills for the day around 11 am calculating how much longer I could linger under the covers until I HAD to get up to get to the salt mines.

    The Long Suffering One was in the kitchen getting some coffee to which she is as addicted as I am to soda. She is one second from ruining my day when I beat her to the discovery in the back yard. Instead of the blanket of leaves standing as a testimony to my ...

    Updated 01-03-2012 at 02:41 AM by mtpspur

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  2. What I Read in 2011

    Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham -- 4/5

    Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine (Martin Sorrell translator) -- 3/5

    Weiland by Charles Brocken Brown -- 3.8/5

    B.P.R.D: Plague of Frogs by Mignola & Others -- 4/5

    Beowulf (Heaney translation) -- 5/5

    Grendel by John Gardner 4/5

    Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi (Eamon Grennan, translator) -- 4/5

    Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum. 3/5 ...
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  3. My 2011 Reads

    Gulliver's Travels by Gulliver's Travels

    The Bright and The Dark by Michelle M. Welch

    The Monk by Matthew Lewis

    Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

    The City & the City by China Miéville

    The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

    Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

    The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

    Night of the Wolf by Alice Borchardt

    A Town Like Alice by Nevil
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    Updated 01-02-2012 at 06:42 PM by Dark Muse

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  4. A New Start in Blogland

    I'm hoping to make this a nightly ritual. I am usually online around this time and there are certain things I do.

    For instance I have stopped hovering around the Long Suffering Wife and just watch TV until she gives up the box for the night. I then look up Comics Kingdom (the Oregon edition) fully aware that Dan's ex-wife hails from that state and I read: Amazing Spider-Man, Bliss, Brewster Rockit, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Funky Winkerbean, Mary Worth (she is addictive even though ...

    Updated 01-02-2012 at 03:02 AM by mtpspur

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  5. My 2011 Reads

    The Power and the Glory, a novel by Graham Greene.
    “Revelation,” a short story by Flannery O’Connor.
    “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country,” a short story by William H. Gass.
    “New York Nite Club—,“ a short story by Jack Kerouac.
    Deuteronomy, a book from the Old Testament, KJV translation.
    “Nature” (1836), an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
    As I Lay Dying, a novel by William Faulkner.
    “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” a short story by ...
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