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Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
My mother is standing in front of the bathroom mirror smelling polished and ready; like Jean Nate, Dippity Do and the waxy sweetness of lipstick.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Salinas Valley is in Northern California.
The Straw Men by Michael Marshall
Palmerston is not a big town, nor one that can convincingly be said to be at the top of its game.
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof.
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.
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posted Sunday, August 3, 2003
» Tom at Plasticbag writes:
At one stage while I was at University, I went through a bit of a phase of reading other people?s books on why they didn?t believe in ?god? either. These books were routinely extremely boring, because fundamentally the intellectual labour involved in making a highly convincing ?anti-god? case is so fundamentally trivial that it feels out of place in the mouths and books of scholars. Or at least that?s how it feels to me. Bertrand Russell?s Why I am not a Christian was one of those books. I read it to see if I could find a new way to translate the obviousness of atheism to the people I routinely found myself in argument with. But fundamentally, it was the same as everything else. Obvious. Self-explanatory. Tedious. Repetitive. I still, to this day, don?t understand why religious people just don?t seem to get it.
posted Monday, March 24, 2003
Austen on War
Simply perfect:
It is a myth universally accepted that a people suffering under a single despot in possession of a good moustache must be in want of invasion.
posted Monday, February 3, 2003
Favorite Chrisonom-icon
I now have an icon that will appear in several browsers when you bookmark the site, thanks to Jonno, who is now fully, happily returned to the blogsphere. He created two icons I can choose between, shown to your left. He's cool like dat.
posted Thursday, January 24, 2002
Placate Channel Surfing Tendencies
I've been cavorting aimlessly through the WWW this morning, following link after link, pausing along the way to take in a bit of content here, a picture there. It bothers me that most people surf the web like this. There's just too much information to take in, so we become accustomed to taking a taste of everything like channel surfing.
There's a lot of stuff to mention in the blogging community, lately. For instance, Nikolai's annual Bloggies are fast underway (vote for your favorite blogs using the link above). New people are jumping on the blogging bandwagon every day, including my friend Dianna and a few of Chris' friends. Jonno is posting about Marmite once again.
The number of websurfers and webloggers are ever-increasing. Could it be that in the wake of terrorism, war, recession, and Marmite, people are retreating to their homes and looking to the web to satisfy their need for connection?
posted Tuesday, January 22, 2002
Visuals for SF Adventures
I can't believe it's almost been three months since I visited San Francisco. Everything is still so clear in my mind: the Labrynth-like maze of buildings; the damp smell of the city after rain; the boys; the wind (as you will notice in the pictures). Jessie took that damn camera everywhere we went. After a while, it melted into his hands and taking pictures became as innate as breathing.
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