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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.
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Nerdsdropping: Overread in DC
I spend a good portion of my day schlepping from Maryland to Northern Virginia on the DC Metro, which gives me nearly two hours a day to read and nap while pretending to read. The Metro is also a good place to do some nerdsdropping on my fellow readers. Having lived in America’s most highly educated…
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Acquisitions: 3-8-2011
Lent is almost upon us, and this year I’m going to go without acquiring any books for 40 days. No laughter from the peanut gallery: I’ve done this before, so I know it’s possible. One consequence, though, is that I go on one final book-buying splurge before the restraint, sort of a bibliophile’s Mardi Gras…
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Acquisitions Week of 3/6/2011
Well my local shark pit of frenzied, desperate, deal-seeking bibliophiles (aka the soon to close Wall Street Borders) finally dropped the prices to 25-40% off. Now we’re talking. I look forward to when they drop to 35% off and I find myself buying slightly stained romance novels. David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de…
Milo and the Calf 