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About Me

I am from Kentucky, where they invented bourbon ball candies. Have you ever had a bourbon ball? No? Let me know if you are in the neighborhood and I will invite you over to try one. They are little mounds of bourbon sunshine covered in rich, dark chocolate, made from a secret recipe invented by Rebecca Ruth, who used to stand in front of her own store window and exclaim, "Oh, what wonderful candy they sell at this store!"

My Interests

Politics, good writing

I'd like to meet:

Well, not everyone, that's for sure. I'm not going to hop on that train. We need standards today, more than ever! If we race all the way down to the bottom, we'll all end up hitting our heads. And then where will be? At the bottom, with our heads having been injured.

Movies:

Eve's Bayou, Network, Waiting for Guffman, Mixed Nuts

Television:

Prime Suspect, Nighty Night

Books:

Middlemarch, Confederacy of Dunces, What Was She Thinking? (Notes on a Scandal), The Best American Short Stories of the Century, ed. by John Updike (It's a GREAT anthology. . . I think it's my favorite anthology! Now I have a favorite anthology! What's your favorite anthology?!), Gillead, The American Way of Death

Heroes:

Jeanette Rankin, Margaret Chase Smith, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, My Parents!

My Blog

Well. Well.

So. I guess I'm the fool, then. Right everyone? I've got the egg on my face. Oh, look at me, I've got eight friends, I've got eleven friends, I am the most popular boy in grade school! Well, that...
Posted by Duncan on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:55:00 PST

The Cost of Success

OK!!! I know that I said I wanted more friends. And I still do, I want friends. But now, I have more friends than I had ever dreamed could be possible. And Tom. He's ther...
Posted by Duncan on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:34:00 PST

I am having an attack!

OF FRIENDS! So many new people have agreed to become my new friends. This woman Katie, this woman Claudia, and this man Tim all signed up to be my friends. Also, another man named Ti...
Posted by Duncan on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:46:00 PST

Things are getting desperate!

Well, I am still stuck with just Tom. I shouldn't say stuck, because if he ends up being my ONLY mySpace.com friend, then I will have to make peace with him and try to cozy up to him. Bett...
Posted by Duncan on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:31:00 PST

Oh. My. God.

I have a new friend!!!! I should not be updating this blog right now, but I HAVE A NEW FRIEND!!!! This girl, Lori McClain, requested ME to be her FRIEND!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! ...
Posted by Duncan on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:32:00 PST

Ugh! How embarrassing!

My only MySpace friend is Tom, the (fake?) person from MySpace who has to be everybody's friend because it's his job. This is like when the lunch room monitor was my only friend at lunch, or when cam...
Posted by Duncan on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:03:00 PST

omigosh I am working on my myspace!

Well, I didn't want to do this, because the minute, the very minute, that I made an effort with Friendster, look what happened! Friendster became the Nehru jacket of online networking destinations. ...
Posted by Duncan on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:54:00 PST