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William L. Bryan

About Me

I write. I have a day job, of course (Bill's First Commandment: You gotta eat), and a family and generally you have to be a different guy altogether to write, so sometimes I am.Speaking of writing, check out my stuff at www.williamlbryan.com

My Blog

WLB and the Mystical Newsletter

So, I have a MySpace page, a sweet website - I'm a guy roundly e-marketed, right?  Au contraire, mi amigo.  I needed a newsletter.  Don't we all need a newsletter?  If you do ...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:08:00 GMT

Official Website

I have a spiffy new website all up and kinda ready for public consumption. www.williamlbryan.com Visit, love, share with friends and neighbors.  
Posted by on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:35:00 GMT

Crisis of Faith

In a book I wrote, I pointed out what a seismic crisis of faith it would be to arrive for Sunday morning services only to find the church doors bolted from the inside. Sometime previous to writing sai...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:54:00 GMT

Writing into the Sunset

The title of this blog really means nothing, except that it was better than the runner-up, "Writing Mower." Last Columnist Typing, the breath-taking epic timesuck of a sports writing contest, has reac...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:36:00 GMT

Chess

My six year-old son loves chess.  He likes it as some kind of gross abstraction because he cannot be bothered to understand it beyond what pieces are and are not allowed to do, and even at that h...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:51:00 GMT

Election Fraud

Here in Denver, a blue county in a red state listing to deep purple, the powers that be decided to change the voting process for this election.  Rather than our normal precincts, the wizards behi...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:16:00 GMT

Thomas and the Magic Railroad

The title of this blog might lead you to believe that I have spent the last several days doing mushrooms in my backyard, but it is not a clever "Puff the Magic Dragon" or "Lucy in the Sky with Diamond...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:33:00 GMT

Dedication to Peace

This weekend in Denver, we were treated to an historic opportunity as ten Nobel Peace Prize winners gathered for a youth conference and in the relatively intimate setting of DU's Magness Arena deliver...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:44:00 GMT

Last Columnist Typing - Week One

So, the votes are in and with the aid of my intrepid fanbase, I was not eliminated in Week One of the Rocky Mountain News competition Last Columnist Typing.  In fact, I had the week's highest sco...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:47:00 GMT

Last Columnist Typing

The Rocky Mountain News Sports Department is running a contest called "Last Columnist Typing" and has mistakenly diagnosed my column as one of the seventeen finalists. The format is familiar to r...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:05:00 GMT