January 2012
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“I’ve been killing characters my entire career, maybe I’m just a...”
– -George R.R. Martin.
I hope in the near future, I can turn the page to find out someone has taken Prince Viserys Taragaryens, head off. (I don’t like him)
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The Princess Bride
“The worst aspect of my depression is what I’ve come to think of as “black dog time,” when my enthusiasm for anything takes an Acapulco cliff-dive. It’s a hard state of mind to describe— in fact, it’s a hard state of mind to even detect, and even once you have detected it it’s hard to give a damn because you’re, well, depressed. It’s a...
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Arya Stark is my favorite.
December 2011
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2011
2011 a year that’s almost over. The worst year of my life, for reasons never to be explored here publicly. I’m sure there’s people in this world who want this year to pass, much more then I do, but for me, the end of two thousand and eleven can’t come soon enough. The end of a year always brings with it reflection and also the hope of new beginnings. I won’t be...
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Grocery Store
If you venture into a grocery tomorrow, wish every employee you see a Merry Christmas. They have worked their asses off, so every one could have their cranberries that no one at the table will touch.
To you and yours a Merry Christmas.
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My Favorite Books of 2011
When I look at back at the year that was through reading, I’m struck by how the books I chose to read didn’t fall into any pattern whatsoever. There was no genre specific adventure I went on. I did read more books released in a specific year, then any past years. Although it hurt my bank account. It was nice to read books being talked about in the moment. My favorite release of the...
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“That’s a somewhat arbitrary but probably sufficient cross section of what you...”
– Charles Yu of Los Angeles Review of Books
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Anonymous asked: You've hinted at it, but I don't want you to stop writing this blog. It means too much to me. I found it when looking for blogs about books. I found many others of that type through your blog, but I've really only stayed with yours. It's not about the books anymore. I'm a little more than half your age and I look at the life you've presented here for reassurance that...
Anonymous asked: how old are you?
brianmlatimer asked: Any plans for a 'best books of the year' list?
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Gift
She is his greatest gift. Like the sun, that rises, over blue seas, and grass covered plains, that peaks through snow covered mountains, her brown eyes rise to look at him.
He always wanted to have children. As early as he could recall he wanted to be a father. He never knew why, and looking back now, still doesn’t understand the reasons for wanting to be one. Some people do, others...
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gingersnaps-deactivated20111228 asked: How did you and your wife meet?
If you’ve ever wondered?
A Thought.
A thought. Hundreds, if not thousands come to you throughout the day. For the most part they come and they go. But some, and it may only be one, in a days time, demand further reflection.
The thought: This blog, I write and create, will provide my girls a better understanding of the person I am. They will know things about their father, they may not have ever known.
This is the thought I...
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“….and at once I knew I was not magnificent.”
– Bon Iver, Holocene.
In one sentence he wraps up my whole life.
November 2011
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Like
Things I like:
Books all types, softcover over hardcover, authors Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Auster, Mitchell, Murakami, Bolaño, Wallace, Williams, McCarthy, Vonnegut, Franzen, Chabon, Kerouac, Carver. My wife, my children, my mother, my brother. Sports I like to play, golf, sports I like to watch, Hockey, Football, Football, Baseball. Tulips, Vinyl, tobacco, bourbon, ales, scotch, wine. Children,...
New Years Resolution
it’s almost December I can do this if I wanna.
I’m going to take at least one course, at a post secondary institution.
There it’s on the Internet.
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Curious....
How many of you have come across a boy with a book collection?
Not a book collection, as in required reading for a university course, or a collection of say a couple dozen books on a night table. But a book collection of shelves of books, or hundreds of books stacked on floors, and chairs.
Personally, I’ve only come across it once, not counting myself. I was just curious on the...
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Dear Diary.
I hurt my neck lifting my daughter on to my shoulders. I have one of those necks that strains easily. I’ve hurt my neck drying my hair after a shower not once, but twice, or maybe three times. I feel old. Not old, old, but old for my age. I work really hard to make a living. A living with no future, because there’s not enough money to save. As hard as I work I should be a millionaire....
Taxes
Dear America,
I have a question.
How are you able to gain revenue for your country, and reduce your deficit without a national sales tax, for everyone?
Being Canadian, this is something, I don’t understand. We of course, pay a national sales tax, and a provincial sales tax. Both of which I have no issue paying. Our national sales tax is the exact same for everyone. But in America any...
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“When life wears us down, great fiction gives us back our human shape.”
– Kevin Hartnett. From his Millions review of 1Q84. It’s a review by a parent for parents.
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1Q84
“A word about packaging: The three volumes that have been collected for American readers in the composite version of “1Q84” hang together about as well as the three parts of Roberto Bolaño’s similarly published (and far better) “2666” did. Each of these omnibus books has bright, incisive passages interspersed with abundant filler. But there is no overarching narrative idea to make either...
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Depths
I’m not here, this isn’t happening.
When these words come over the speakers, anywhere, in my home, through my earbuds, or coming up through the speakers in my car. It does the same thing to me it always has. It reminds me of the darkness. The song is beautiful, it’s my favorite song in the universe, but it reminds me of when I couldn’t escape. All those times, throughout...
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Drake
Drake’s comments on the world of tumblr are making their rounds. I’m not entirely sure who Drake is exactly. I couldn’t name a song of his or anything he’s done. Drake is not a real person, what I mean is, he’s not someone that is like me or the people I follow on tumblr. I’ve been incorporated within the tumblr universe for almost three years. It started as...