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Strutting about like a dirty rooster going to and fro, doing how he do.

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My Blog

An Update on Red Beets

Note:  See my photos for the full Red Beet Update multi-media experience. First, red beets.  Is it necessary to say "red"?  Are all beets red?  Are there white beets?  I remem...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:05:00 GMT

Red Beets--I ain’t afraid

I eat whatever.  I like bland food really.  I don't eat chicken, pork or beef and haven't for about eight years but if provoked I will.  I've had the above maybe four times in the ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 22:44:00 GMT

Books VI-I run out of Roman numerals and patience.

I've been reading a lot.  Here is a list of what I have been reading since the last post.  I don't have the patience to write an entry for each of them.  If something strikes your ...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:43:00 GMT

Books-V-Anthony Burgess-Any Old Iron

World War II, a humorous Welsh independence movement, foundation of Israel.  Some of the subjects of Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess.  I think this must have been one of his last works...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:27:00 GMT

Books IV-Earthly Powers-Anthony Burgess

You probably know Anthony Burgess as the author of the book A Clockwork Orange, made into a film by Stanely Kubrick.  He is an author that I have not spent a lot of time reading. I studied (study...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:50:00 GMT

Books III-The Professor and the Madman-Simon Winchester

I had hopes for this book as I enjoy the history of words, words, people who write words, wordy birds. This is the story of an insane american surgeon, who later confirms his insanity in my humble non...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Books-II-The Executioner’s Song-Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer recently died.  I've read quite a few of his books and was reminded that I enjoyed his work when I heard his kidney's failed.  The Executioner's Song is the story of Gary Gill...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:11:00 GMT

Books I

I've read a lot of books.  Have you ever seen the Twilight Zone where the little bank teller is the only surivor after the apocalypse and then has all the time in the world to read?  That's ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:04:00 GMT

Moving moving moving

I am in Texas now.  This is the fourth place I have lived in 2007.  It is the 31st place I have lived in my life.  I'm counting two places more than once because I moved into them ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:58:00 GMT

A conversation

My room mate sleeps in the living room.  I often wake him up by moving through the room to go outside for a cigarette. Hey, I'm totally insane, so I can't sleep more than four hours at a time.&nb...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:39:00 GMT