Hello! I’m taking some time off of work this week to spend some time with my friends in the San Francisco bay area. It was my birthday on Friday and everyone has been treating me to an incredible BirthWeek so far. We had a great dinner Friday night, and Saturday we went down to Santa [...]
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16 Feb 10
21 Dec 09
There is no greater phrase to a poetry enthusiast. There is nothing so satisfying as picking up a single thick slab of poetry, and saying, this is what this person was (or “is,” maybe). Just look at this one I picked up the other day:
That is a serious chunk of poetry right there son! Five [...]
15 Dec 09
Everyone else is doing it. Surely the best reason to do anything, right? Over the past few weeks all the big style/culture mags and blogs have been looking back on the decade and declaring their favorite music, books, movies, etc. And while I could probably name ten movies worth seeing from the 2000s, and maybe [...]
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Posted in music, whoopjamboreehoo
15 Dec 09
As I welcome my 2008 Subaru Outback in my life (LOVE it), I would like to look back on what was lost, and remember the Blue Ox’s steadfast companionship, and all the fun we had together. As I made this video I wanted it to be cheesy and kinda funny, but in the end it [...]
30 Oct 09
Wandering through the bookstore the other day something a bit out of place caught my eye. Something…fuzzy. Turns out, it’s the Dave Eggers novelization of the “Where the Wild Things Are” movie! Usually the phrase “movie novelization” is enough to make me barf on the spot but, I JUST HAD TO HAVE IT. I mean…it [...]
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Posted in prose, reading, whoopjamboreehoo
17 Oct 09
Just like the season itself in Minnesota this year, this mix is coming better late than never. I swear we headed straight from summer to winter around here, with the warm September, and then snow and the cold piling on us the first couple weeks of October. Today I went outside for a walk and [...]
17 Oct 09
Today I finished the third book in the trilogy of David James Duncan’s major works: River Teeth. The other two books are The River Why and The Brothers K, both of which I cannot possibly recommend highly enough. I recommend the third book just as highly, however I would read the two novels first before [...]
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Posted in i've got my philosophy, language, prose, reading, whoopjamboreehoo
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Tagged david james duncan
19 May 09
I’m not usually up late enough for Craig Ferguson’s show but my god I’m glad I was up for it last night. I can hardly watch it it cracks me up so bad.
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4 May 09
check it.
I’m a $&#*ing updating machine!
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Posted in poetry, whoopjamboreehoo, writing
3 May 09
Reworked and reupped!
I hope you’ll go read some…even if you think you’ve read all of them, I bet you haven’t! And if you really have…you still might find some new gems to enjoy. I know I did. Book publishers especially are encouraged to take a look and make their bids accordingly.
Thanks for reading.
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