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Remaindered: Books that don’t quite belong
(First in an occasional series, in which the odder fringes of my library are hauled out into the light for the edification of the public.) Don’t Make Me Go Back, Mommy: A Child’s Book About Satanic Ritual Abuse, Doris Sanford and Graci Evans, Multnomah Press, Portland (1990). One of the most headline-grabbing social fears…
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Training Totals Week of 2.20.2011
RECAP: Finally feel like I am on the mend. I had a pretty decent performance this weekend at the Prospect Park Cherry Tree Ten Miler. I had set an arbitrary goal of 1:24:00, I ended up coming in at 1:20:49. Foot hurt for most of the rest of the night, but it is feeling fine…
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Acquisitions: Week of 2-20-11
I feel like this is some kind of Tweet Your Weight-esque exercise in public shaming, because the last two weeks make it look like I do nothing except buy books that I will never be able to read. This week, though, there were special circumstances: an order from a month ago showed up on my…
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Acqusitions Week of 2.20.2011
Death in a City of Mystics (Prime Crime Mysteries), Janice Steinberg, Berkley (1998) – Found on the street. Seriously. Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible, Karel van der Toorn, Harvard University Press (2009) – Amazon. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, NYU (2003) – Amazon…
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Adolf Hitler, magic yoga spaceman
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press (2002). Few things are more tedious in political discussion than accusations that some politician or party is analogous to the German National Socialist Workers Party, more commonly known as the Nazis. Intended as the ultimate discrediting putdown,…
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The loneliness of the library book sale
Library book sales always leave me with an almost physical sense of sadness, a kind of psychic fatigue that settles over me as as soon as I glimpse those tables with discarded books from unknown homes all lined up like judgmental ex-lovers. Many book people love these events, savoring the chance to spelunk in the…
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Thinking of Boston
The change in the Boston Qualifying times really woke me up out of my winter work out slumber. As regular readers of this blog know, I would very much like to BQ, but I am very far away from that goal. With the new qualifying times, this is a goal that just got a lot…
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New Boston Qualifying Times
Well, crap. Qualifying for Boston just got even harder. For someone of my age and gender, it is now going to take a 3:10 to qualify. While I think this is probably the fairest way to deal with demand for the race, for me personally it puts the possibility of ever getting there even farther…
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One less question on the Voynich Manuscript
There was big news this week in the land of Voynich Manuscript hobbyist. The book is apparently quite old. A book of illustrations and writings composed in a language no one can understand, the Voynich Manuscript (VM) has had a cult following in certain obscure corners of the bibliophilic world for sometime. This week, researchers…
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Training Totals Week Ending 2.13.2011
RECAP: Well, things are getting better. Not as quickly as I’d like, but they are getting better. The foot is still hurting, though the pain is more intermittent. I’m trying to institute a regular regime of stretching, massaging and icing and I hope that works. I have my first race of 2011 this weekend, the…
Milo and the Calf 