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City And the City
I was just on vacation (during my vacation, very post-modern) when I read City and the City by China Mieville. It was my first time reading anything by this author and I will say I was very happy with this book. It is a combination of noir, political allegory, and science fiction. The basic premise…
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Training Week of 7/31/2011
RECAP: It remains mother loving hot out there, but I shall preserve. This week was a big step up in the mileage from recent weeks. I got in a fair number of miles, admittedly much slower than I was hoping, but still, plenty of running took place and I am happy with the 56 miles…
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Sean’s Week in Review
The Week In Review In a quixotic attempt to write more and reinvigorate this blog, I present to you the new feature, the week in the review wherein I note books acquired, work done, and posts written. Acquisitions: On Writing Well: 30th Anniversary Edition, William Zinsser (amazon) Hell on Two Wheels: An Astoning Story of…
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Training Totals Week Ending 7-24-2011
RECAP: People, it is goddamn hot out there. Temps have been around a hundred since Thursday and that has hurt my running something serious. I did get out there everyday, but I fell really short of my weekly goal of 55 miles. This coming week will be a different story though, I guarantee it. Yesterday…
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Rubenstein’s Aristotle’s Children
Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages Richard Rubenstein I have for some time been interested in the interplay between classical Greek philosophy, rabbinic Judaism, and early Christian thought. Neo-platonic thought and early Christian doctrine share a lot in common, and Aristotle had a clear influence on…
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Trail Running in Prospect Park
I’ve run well over a thousand miles in Prospect Park. Most of those have been on the outer loop. Lately, the loop has been getting a little dull, so yesterday I decided to switch it up. The idea for the run was to not run on the main loop at all, but keep entirely to…
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Training Totals 6.19.2011
RECAP: After some illness and a week from hell, I got back in the groove this week running 46 miles in around seven hours. Toughest run was definitely the 15 miler on Saturday. It was hot out there and I just wasn’t feeling all that great. I averaged a depressing ten minutes per mile, including…
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18 weeks
Still here, still running. I had a rough couple of weeks at the beginning of the month. I got very sick (the less spoken about this the better) and then super busy at work. I ran some, but not much. I lost some fitness, but not much. I’m back at it now and feeling pretty…
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Ellroy’s The Cold Six Thousand
The Cold Six Thousand is the second volume of Ellroy’s “Underworld Trilogy” tracing the history of 1960s America through the lives of real and imagined gangsters. Written in an intense staccato style, the books are filled with conspiracies, bad men behaving horribly, and real and imagined dirt on most of the pivotal figures of the…
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Crime in the City – Mosley’s the Long Fall
The Long Fall Walter Mosley Crime novels are very grounded in place. George Pelacanos’s novels sing of DC; Laura Lippman’s of Baltimore of Los Angeles, and until recently, Walter Mosley’s most famous crime novels were set in Watts. For the last decade of so the heavy hitters of crime fiction have mostly been avoiding New…
Milo and the Calf 