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Unbanning Books Month

September 1st, 2010 · 10 Comments

Miriam Forster, of the charmingly monikered Dancing with Dragons is Hard on Your Shoes blog, has issued a challenge to writers (and readers!). It springs from an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association, called Banned Books Week. From the ALA site: Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Books as Books · In the News · Reading · The Online World

Real-Life Dialogue (Awkward Moments Edition)

August 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments

[The scene opens in the waiting room of Super Mega Giant medical center in a mid-sized city in northern Florida, USA. He is a middle-aged male, and has been for some time. This report includes two Shes: A, a medical assistant; and J, a nurse practitioner.] A: Mr. He? He: Right here. A: Very good, [...]

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Tags: Everyday Life · Humor · Real-Life Dialogue · Science & Medicine

BlogIt

August 16th, 2010 · 19 Comments

Every year around now, a large chunk of blogosphere real estate is turned over to posts, tweets, Facebook status updates, and Flickr albums about a gathering called BlogHer. As the conference title suggests, the focus in on women who blog — it’s apparently attended by a number of guys, as well — and for the [...]

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Tags: Everyday Life · In the News · Ruminations · The Online World · Writing

Surprised by What You Want

August 13th, 2010 · 4 Comments

[Video above: "Rio," by Hey Marseilles. Lyrics at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis [...]

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Think You Know What’s Coming?

August 6th, 2010 · 8 Comments

From whiskey river: If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next — if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions — you’d be doomed. You’d be as ruined as God. You’d be a stone. You’d never eat or drink or laugh or [...]

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Tags: Movies · Music · Poetry · Ruminations · Science & Medicine · Writing · whiskey river Fridays

What Takes You Back?

August 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Yesterday, Granta magazine kicked off a new collective-memory project called “Nostos Algos.” From a publicity release which just made its way to my Inbox: The word ‘nostalgia’ comes from the Greek words nostos (‘a homecoming’) and algos (‘pain, grief, distress’). We have all known the desire to return to another place or time, and the [...]

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Tags: In the News · Looking Backward · Perfect Moments · The Online World · Writing

Hits and Misses

August 2nd, 2010 · 12 Comments

Complicated here, during the last week. Not bad, just… complicated. Thought I’d sort of summarize a couple of points of potential interest, but first, a question for regular visitors: Have you had problems accessing RAMH recently? One of your number has reported getting repeated “the connection was reset by the server” errors. It’s prevented her [...]

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Book Review: War, by Sebastian Junger

August 1st, 2010 · 8 Comments

Habitués of Running After My Hat know, I think, that I resist the intrusion of politics into my posts here. And although I’ve never been tested on this, I’m pretty sure that’s one area in which I would likely resort to editing (or outright banning) comments of certain kinds. If you’re after debate, even of [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · In the News · Politics · Reading · Ruminations

You Spoke from Midnight

July 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments

From whiskey river: Moonrise And who has seen the moon, who has not seen Her rise from out the chamber of the deep, Flushed and grand and naked, as from the chamber Of finished bridegroom, seen her rise and throw Confession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscription Of bliss, [...]

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Book Review: Spook, by Mary Roach

July 22nd, 2010 · 8 Comments

I’ve just posted my latest review for The Book Book; it covers non-fiction author Mary Roach’s Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. This was Roach’s second book. The first, Stiff, was about what happens to the human body after death. You can see that she’s attracted to odd, even icky topics; and you may guess from [...]

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