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wolf totem

November 26, 2007

I was listening to BBC worldservice this morning, and apparently a book called Wolf Totem (朗图腾) by Jiang Rong is going to be published in English. I’m not sure why this news is hitting now, as the book was set for English publication back in 2005, unless it’s the news that the translation is […]

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these are the days of our choppers

November 16, 2007

This is my brain most days of the week, and so often I want to say to people “Please, you don’t want to know what I’m thinking, don’t get me started!”  I have a good time pursuing ridiculous chains of thought that seem incredibly fun because of the absurdity, and every once in a while […]

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tuesday’s breakfast

August 29, 2007

breakfast: shredded wheat,
milk makes fibers spread apart
lots of spiders’ legs

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haiku and musings from earlier this week

August 24, 2007

I’ve got a new little notebook, and I’ve been putting things in it, and they amuse me. I may scan in the little doodles sometime later today to add to this post.
ride a bicycle
all day long you’ll have good luck
or just chop it up.
never look again
squealing voices, so heinous
karaoke time
you’ll have to imagine the […]

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keys (a little nostalgia)

February 18, 2005

It’s been a busy week for me. Came back from Baltimore, I’ve started working, class has been going on, I saw my buddy Alyissa, and then Thursday I crashed out with a really intense headache.
As the week slowed I had a chance to reminisce on some of the more stupid things I’ve […]

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while I was out…

January 8, 2005

I was offline for a few days this week. It was a good chance to reflect, though unplanned and unwanted.
I can spend time by myself and stay fairly entertained. That was good. I’m reading a wonderful book, though it’s overdue at the library. I will get there on Tuesday, […]

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progress is good for the soul

October 16, 2004

Last week a friend lent me Life of Pi. I’ve been excited to get started on it, so I pushed myself to finish reading Eyes of the Dragon. It sounds silly, but completing that made me feel really good. I was struggling and putting off finishing the book for some time. […]

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Timing

October 11, 2004

Everything is distance and timing. Once these are mastered everything else will come naturally. Great advice in fencing that applies to the rest of life. You have to know where to be, when you want to cheer someone else up you have to know exactly when to insert that word that might bring a smile […]

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Progress?

September 8, 2004

I’ve been trying to make some headway this week on getting things done, so to speak.
At least I finished reading a book. I was little overwhelmed by the choices offered by my bookshelf. I’ve read twelve books this year, and somehow I had thought it was much less than that. […]

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Craft: description

August 19, 2004

Description is a funny thing in writing, it can boost a piece up to true greatness, or it can sink writing with its triviality.
Victorian writing always challenged me as a young reader. Paragraph upon paragraph of rolling moor left me forgetting Return of the Native’s plot. The dawdling on fashion sense and gossip culture […]

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