August 2013
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"As the bottom of the shoes, it contacts with ground closely and directly."
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"Cain Velasquez, like you said (last year), I'm going to come back and I'm going to take my belt again."
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The New York Times has one of many obituaries. I've read three of his novels: The Hunted, Killshot, and Bandits, in that order. Bandits was a book on tape, and I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that I liked it a bit less than the other two. But I thought…
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Only one thing ever makes you safe–putting your trust in God. –Caryll Houselander
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Signed itself "renal failure."
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Yes, as I may or may not have said in that long piece about Lovecraft last week, I had decided after those three novellas that I didn't need to read any more Lovecraft now, and perhaps not ever. But one day I needed something to read while eating lunch and the only reading matter I…
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Alas for me! For I have beheld the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep, which dwelt in the red cooler in the kitchen. Full many and many a dark aeon, even since the Fourth of July, had it brooded in darkness, forgotten of men and nurturing the impious vengeance merited by that forgetting, and gathered unto itself certain…
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Weekend Music First, Dylan vs. Dylan. An acoustic performance of "Visions of Johanna" from 1966: And now a relatively recent performance, in more or less his current style: To my taste the second one has its merits, but just isn't on the same plane as the first one. This post actually started out…
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I pretty much agree with this, except that I don't think Dylan's voice sounded old when he was young. On his first album, which I've never much liked (I almost said "unlistenable," but that's overstating it), he sounds to me like a kid who doesn't really know what he's doing. He wants to sound authentic…
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