Monthly Archives: December 2006

From the Always Error-Free Soccern*t

12/30/2006 – 12:19 pm

Fulham dent Chelsea hopes
Chelsea slipped six points behind league leaders Manchester United as DaMarcus Beasley’s first goal for Fulham earned his side a 2-2 draw in the west London derby. The champions fought back from a goal down, thanks again to hot-shot Didier Drogba, only for Beasley to strike late on. Meanwhile, United manager Sir [...]

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Cien Años & Pick Up Soccer

12/29/2006 – 6:46 pm

My work ethic has been pathetic thus far and haven’t done much writing, but I’ve had slow but steady progress on One Hundred Years of Solitude. Normally when I read, I try to suss out some of the themes and signifcance of the book as I go. I started to do that with [...]

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First Semester Post-Mortem

12/26/2006 – 10:08 pm

My final grade just posted and I’ve been waiting to give a recap of my classes. I commented on my initial impressions awhile back at the beginning of the semester and wanted to give my final thoughts as well. Overwhelmingly, this was a good semester but I’m never beyond complaining. My classes [...]

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Darkest Day of the Year

12/22/2006 – 11:48 am

John Graham Mellor
Aka Joe Strummer

8/21/1952 – 12/22/2002

“I sometimes look at myself, I’m sitting with a biro and a cigarette packet, desperately scrawling dribble on it. And sometimes I put down my fag pack and think, what am I, a grown man, doing at this hour of the night? Then I banish that thought, pick [...]

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The Most Unlucky Frisbee in the World

12/21/2006 – 4:24 pm

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Athena at play. She’s a sweet dog, honest!

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Dec. 19-20, 1998

12/20/2006 – 5:24 pm

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Yesterday, it occured to me that we were in Africa about this time eight years ago. I paged through the scrapbook at saw that from December 18th through the 20th we were at the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania and decided to scan these two photos. They brought back a lot of [...]

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The Gong Show

12/20/2006 – 4:55 pm

I finished For Whom The Bell Tolls yesterday and my verdict is a hearty thumbs up.
Hemingway has his faults. Okay, he has a lot of faults, with general misogyny being the most glaring. I don’t doubt his portrayal of how many men felt about women during the era. However, I greatly [...]

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You Know, That Novel You’ve Been Writing

12/19/2006 – 2:53 pm

“You know, that novel you’ve been writing?” on Google Video

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Groan Street Hooligans

12/18/2006 – 8:08 am

Last night we watched Green Street Hooligans starring Frodo Baggins. What starts off being mildly interesting if a bit far-fetched spirals out of control into complete lunacy by the mid-way point making it a laugh-a-minute until the ending.
There’s not a lot of care shown to details here and everything’s just a bit over-the-top. [...]

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A Fine Finish

12/17/2006 – 6:18 pm

Yay! Just sent my final draft of “Miss Pavlichenko – Part I” in, which is my last act of the semester. In rereading the story, I don’t think it’s half bad. Part I ended up being about 8500 words.

Watched the second half of Man Ure vs. West Ham and the first [...]

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