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Author Archives: ronnyd
batman begins
I thought that I was over getting excited for Batman movies. I thought that the last two, especially the 4th with George Clooney, though he could have made a good Batman, were the nails in the series’ coffin. I found … Continue reading
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you figure out what this is about
We live in a wonderous age; an age where the technology at our fingertips is as amazing as it is at times incomprehensible. We can do things in a few minutes that would have taken many days just a decade … Continue reading
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samuel beckett
Copied, without permission, from today’s The Writer’s Almanac. None of the words that follow are mine: It’s the birthday of the playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett, born in a rich suburb of Dublin, Ireland called Foxrock (1906). His mother was … Continue reading
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pope john paul ii
Pope John Paul II has passed. May he rest in peace. I don’t want this to become the deathwatch weblog, I’m not that morbid, but they were two significant people that died this week. Whether or not Mrs. Schiavo should … Continue reading
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zagat reviews
I joined the Zagat survey a few weeks ago, when I was in Houston for the first time. Joining the survey was one of the smartest ‘rewards’ programs that I’ve joined so far with this high travel job. The survey … Continue reading
new favorite song … for the time being
My current favorite song, which I find myself culling up more and more on the headset is Pearl Jam’s “All Night,” the first song on their Lost Dogs record, a collection of songs that were layed to wax during the … Continue reading
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kill your television
I’m flying over the western United States from Houston to San Francisco, after having spent the workweek, um, working there. I was working at the headquarters of the big parent company that bought the little software company that I work … Continue reading
it’s possible
It’s the birthday of novelist Judith Guest, born in Detroit, Michigan (1936). In 1974, she sent the manuscript of her first novel off to Viking Press. She didn’t have an agent, and didn’t send along a query letter or a … Continue reading
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really, ronnyd?
More to come this weekend! Can you wait? Can you handle it?
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Will Eisner, 1917 – 2005
Comic book legend Will Eisner died Monday evening, January 3rd. I’m not an authority on the man’s work, having only discovered him in the last 4 years of my comic reading, but what work of his I did read renewed … Continue reading