Author: seanv2
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Where’s Chris Onstad? (UPDATED with answer)
On March 16, the administrator of a Facebook fan community called “Achewood: A Momentary Distraction on the Road to the Grave,” posted a terse update, the first time in over a month anything had been written on the page: “The hiatus is hella lame!” A few dozen people chimed in to agree, with comments like…
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Training Totals 3.20.11
RECAP: Brining back the weekly recap. Not a bad week, definitely better than the week before, but also not the best week possible. As usual of late a combination of injury and scheduling keep me from getting the miles I was hoping for, but I plan to rectify that this week. I have also have…
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No One Will Think About the Beauty of a Kindle in 100 Years
From a 1910 issue of the Mystic Light Library Bulletin of NY. Leave it to occultists to treat books and their book collections with this much respect. -The Filled Slip
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The Return of Friday Inspiration
Spring is in the air and I am inspired and ready to take things to the next level, and so I am restarting the Friday inspiration series where I post running videos to get stoked for the weekends long run. Today’s video is one I have posted before, but something about this video of Ryan…
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Checking In
Still here, still running. Had a good week, had a bad week, hoping this week is a good one. I won’t bore you with the training totals, but lets leave it at last week sucked. With the weather, my foot injury, and wedding planning, trying to put together a string of good weeks has been…
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Comic Strip Tropes: The Silent Penultimate Panel
There are few chunks of media real estate more imperiled than space in the print edition of your local newspaper. For over two decades now, the actual physical paper has been shrinking both in page size and number of pages as advertisements and circulation figures drop. As a result, that space has become more precious…
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Remaindered: If You Were Enlightened, You Wouldn’t Find My Books Weird
I look to GoogleBooks and the advanced search feature of Amazon.com for running keyword searches and finding the research equivalent to a needle in a haystack. Did anyone in the 60s or 70s mention this one specific author or word? In a few seconds, you can find out. Unfortunately, between the two sites there are…
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Better World, Same Grumpy and Cheap Me
I recently cashed in both a Barnes & Noble gift certificate and a recent Barnes & Noble Groupon. There was a short stack of books on the history of stage magic and memoirs of former cult members that I had wanted to get for a while, but didn’t have that burning “drive to the bookstore…
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If I Smoked, I Would Have A Cigarette After Doing This
The pleasure of taking out the books, dusting the shelves, organizing the titles and then lining them all up in flush, straight lines.
Milo and the Calf 