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Buckets, the Bills, Stadiums, Pies, Sharkheaded girls: Some random opinions on some random stuff

Just a grab-bag of some thoughts on stuff going on…. :: I posted the following on a Facebook exchange debating the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. This wasn’t really in response to anything anyone specifically said, but more in response to … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

I’m feeling slightly piratical today, so here’s some appropriate music for it: the closing scene and end credits suite from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

A friend of mine posted this article about diagramming sentences to Facebook the other day, so here’s the simple question: did any of you enjoy diagramming sentences or think it a worthwhile thing to learn? For my part, I hated … Continue reading

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Come all without, come all within…. (How can it possibly have been ten years?)

Little Quinn was born ten years ago today. He’ll never know, alas, what he has taught me about who I am and what kind of person I need to be. Likewise, I’ll never know, alas, what kind of person he … Continue reading

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Answers the Forth! (or, Gonzo Time With Andy!)

Continuing the cavalcade of questions that need answering, as usual, my friend Andy McBride brings the goofy! In the tv show ‘Airwolf’, Michael Coldsmith Briggs III is hiding the advanced helicopter from the CIA as leverage for them to look … Continue reading

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Sentential Links!

Time for linkage! These are from blogs of fellow writer type people. :: Sometimes life imitates art, but more often it’s the other way around. As strange as it sounds, what happens to Sara in this chapter happened to me … Continue reading

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Of buckets and the dumping of the water therein

If you’ve lived beneath a rock of late, you may have missed a viral fundraising activity that’s going around the social media sites. I’m not even sure of the exact “rules”, but it’s all voluntary anyway, so it’s not like … Continue reading

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A Feline Love Story

Yesterday morning I brought my computer down to the dining room table, where I did some work whilst enjoying my coffee. At one point I looked down, to my left, and saw that my parents’ Persian cat was hanging out … Continue reading

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Symphony Saturday

In this installment, we finally reach what is, for me, the most fertile ground for emotionally moving symphonic work ever: late 19th century Russia. The symphonic tradition, as Leonard Bernstein once pointed out, is a Germanic one, and even in … Continue reading

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Answers the Third! (The Instagram edition)

OK, here is another set of answers! All of these were posed by Instagram users over there. One thing that I find really interesting about social media is the way there is some overlap, but it’s definitely not 100 percent. … Continue reading

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