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Good Lieutenant: 11/01/2008 - 12/01/2008
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Forging the uncreated conscience since 2006! Saturday, November 08, 2008. The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed! Satisfyingly poetic: only days removed from my tirade about Yeats Abuse, I watched No Country For Old Men. Again (Third time, I believe.) Whaddya think? Does Cormac Freaking McCarthy get a free pass to loot well-worn poems. For his novel-titling purposes? After all. It's not as if he called it Beauty Is Truth. Or, uh, The Sound and the Fury. Is the title exactly spot-on appropriate. It's no longer a...
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Good Lieutenant: 01/01/2009 - 02/01/2009
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Forging the uncreated conscience since 2006! Thursday, January 01, 2009. Well, I had to do a New Year's post, didn't I? I can never just stay silent forever- I have a sense of Occasion to indulge! So, a good year to you, reader- those of you I have or haven't seen lately and those of you whom I never see. Hope everything is tolerable and calm. Hope you had more New Year excitement than I did, but not too much. A New Year's song, sort of:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Overeducated. Underemployed. O...
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Academy of Recreational Criticism: June 2010
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Saturday, June 19, 2010. Toshiba, Comments, and Alcott. And, my particular favorite, "Make yourself necessary to someone.". Full disclosure: I do not like Little Women. That's why when I learned that Louisa May Alcott also wrote sensational thrillers, I was a bit surprised. I suspect, though I don't actually remember, that my jaw may have actually dropped. So when I found this at a used book store, I got very excited:. Check out that cover! The dark mysterious image! The tagline and NYT Bestseller banner!
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Good Lieutenant: 10/01/2008 - 11/01/2008
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Forging the uncreated conscience since 2006! Tuesday, October 28, 2008. The Meek Shall Has Teh Urfs. Whoa That was a lotta comments all of a sudden. I didn't think that would be the post to energize my readership, but the signs are clear. I thought I was a pop culture. Specialist- but of course the pop culture I like isn't actually "popular." And now it seems the people have spoken, and they're saying make with the Highbrow, you pretentious fool! It's what you do! Commenter Adm points to the LOLCat Bible.
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Good Lieutenant: Winged Victory
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Forging the uncreated conscience since 2006! Monday, February 16, 2009. But I still have to be sort of impressed when I walk a block or two from my house and come across a damned bald eagle. Well, "come across" makes the encounter sound more dramatic than it was- it was at the top of a very tall tree and paid no attention to us whatsoever. But I'm a city boy at heart, and, you know.EAGLE! Sitting there in that photo, eyeing the visitor with some alarm, not sparrows. And on President's Day! Huge ass birds...
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Good Lieutenant: Say Yes to Michigan.
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Forging the uncreated conscience since 2006! Thursday, December 04, 2008. Say Yes to Michigan. I haven't written much, but here's a song. Maybe this is the way to go for a while- I have unlimited numbers of things to say about unlimited numbers of songs. And I found a place to host the files with minimum hassle. (You can't just right-click, I don't think. You have to go through a download page, so they can show you ads. But it's free. Pop-up Blockers On! But it's nice. And, naturally, it seems to be ...
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Good Lieutenant: 08/01/2008 - 09/01/2008
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Forging the uncreated conscience since 2006! Friday, August 29, 2008. Apologies, followed by sneering condescension. I seem to be on a roll today, anyway, so I'll keep it going. So: I've already gotten my jokes in this morning, but let me just say in all seriousness how terrific this McCain VP thing is. My reaction was precisely the same as that of everyone in the world who isn't a conservative. They're saying. She's young and appealing and a Girl. We'll look mean. Like figure. See? Our party's got a Dyn...
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Good Lieutenant: 03/01/2008 - 04/01/2008
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Forging the uncreated conscience since 2006! Thursday, March 20, 2008. News From the Future. President Obama meets with the newly appointed Secretary of Interstellar Good Vibes and Ancillary Coordiator of Soap Bubbles. But, actually, Obama looks kinda pissed off, there. You think anybody told him Wayne Coyne was coming? You gotta tell a brother before you spring Wayne Freakin' Coyne! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. News From the Future. It's Always Sunny In Toledo.
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Academy of Recreational Criticism: August 2008
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Friday, August 29, 2008. Favorite Conversation of the First Week. Scene: Satellite L, ENG 100, Computer Lab. The students are about to embark on an in-class writing sample. Ok everyone, let me know if you have any questions. Glances over to Student's computer*. Student, no myspace- turn that off. But Prof. Dochoc I need to listen to music to write. It helps me flooooowww. Makes gangsta "flow" motion*. I understand, but not when you're in a classroom with others who need silence. Student.turn it off.
