A nice lady hands Floyd Landis my copy of ‘Positively False’ as I walk up to his table. On the inside cover is a post it note, with ‘To Graham and Chris’ written on it, by another nice staffer at the Chester County Book and Music store. This was far and away the most [...]
Tag Archives: Books
Stuff I Am Working My Way Thru
09-Apr-07Licensed To Kill. Fascinating look inside private security contractors and the privatization of the global war on terror.
Paper Trails by Pete Dexter. Gritty.
Review: Amazon Unbox
15-Mar-07So you can now link your Amazon account with your Tivo account, utilzing Amazon Unbox. You have to have:
A series 2 tivo
a netowrk connection for your tivo
An amazon account
A broadband internet connection
If you sign up before 4/30/2007, you get $15 of free credit. There are a limited number of movies available now, but [...]
Little Miss Nerdshine.
09-Oct-06Why did I love Little Miss Sunshine? I feel that it covers alot of the same ground as Napoleon Dynamite, specifically:
1)You are saddled with a family of weirdos. but that is ok.
2)You yourself are kind of a freak. but that is ok. Especially, if you are unaware of it.
3)You should dance to celebrate [...]
#1)The Vanishing featuring Keifer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock, and Jeff Bridges. I didn’t actually finish watching it, but it did inspire me to read the book upon which it was based.
I had to. It was written by Tim Krabbe, who wrote the fantastic The Rider. Which I highly recommend.
I also like the Vanishing [...]
The Third Policeman
15-Aug-06So, I’m a Lost Junkie. And a few weeks ago I was jonesing for a fix, something fierce. I went to Lostapedia to look around, to search randomly and consider some of the shows weird quirks in the absence of new episodes. I stumbled onto an entry for a book [...]
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#1) The way down was fine. The wind was at our back. We cruised. We took maybe 2 stops, one where 537 meets 661 and one where we got onto 70. I think.
#2) Camden, NJ, 6:30am. There were like 2 people on the street. Still maybe the wickedest scary town [...]
Last Year In Books
02-Jan-06A bunch of books I read this year in no particular order:
Box of Matches. A great concept. But I enjoyed Nicholson Baker’s The Fermata infinitely more. (both were Stephanie recommendations.)
A Widow For One Year by John Irving. Another Stephanie recommend. Somewhat interesting, mostly as a result of watching the Jeff [...]