Oh Dear God

I started reading the Harry Potter books when I was in college.  It was only slightly mortifying at the time to be caught with what were seen — at the time — as children’s books.  But I noticed that other people were also reading them on the sly, and that this whole “Harry Potter thing” [...]

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It’s Worth It

I guess I can say that at least one small thing I’ve written over the years has been officially published…
The Houston: It’s Worth It book hit the shelves back in October 2007 and — like the bad procrastinator I’ve been lately — I haven’t even bothered to check it out yet, even though I hear [...]

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Agnetha’s Heaving, Pearlescent Bosom…

If you’d been at Barnes and Noble last Saturday around 6pm, you could have witnessed me skulking shamefully around a section of the store that I normally avoid like the plague: the dreaded Romance section.
I’d taken my sweet little grandmother to the bookstore that evening just to get her out of the house for a [...]

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Love + Sex + Robots = Bleurgh

It doesn’t matter if this is remotely feasible.  It doesn’t matter if it’s overwhelmingly sad and disgusting.  It doesn’t matter if the author is nuttier than a Pay Day.  If you call a book Love + Sex With Robots, it’s going to be more popular than vodka in a Soviet bread line.  Talk about a [...]

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Stolen Memes

Literary memes are pretty irresistable to me, folks.  If you’re even vaguely interested, read on.  If not, the next post is just right down the page there…  There you go…  Keep scrolling…

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A Shout In The Street

I blame Pancho for this one:

You’re Ulysses! by James Joyce
Most people are convinced that you don’t make any sense, but compared to what else you could say, what you’re saying now makes tons of sense. What people do understand about you is your vulgarity, which has convinced people that you are at once brilliant and [...]

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Sound Off

It looks like I’ll be hitting the road tonight, driving up to Dallas for some family matters. I truly loathe Dallas and find it very unfortunate that so many of my family members have chosen to reside there instead of, well, any other place in the world. Dallas is a pit, a void; I don’t [...]

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You Are What You Eat

I’m going to go off on a food rant for a second here.
 
Store’s effort to sell fresh chicken raises concerns
 
The story above interests me.  The people concerned about the possible slaughter of poultry in their neighborhood grocery store don’t identify themselves as vegetarians, animal lovers, or even crazy PETA activists.  They aren’t concerned that the method [...]

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