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I finished reading Dark Force Rising last night, which I mentioned in my last entry. It was good, and I’m really enjoying the story. So much so that I’m about a quarter of the way into the last book already. Of course with Lost on tonight I probably will finish it tomorrow […]

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I got through another couple of books, and boy has my pace tailed off. Of course, it is getting better. Last week I finished up Heretics of Dune for my sixth book of the year. I enjoyed it and really think that if you can get through the first Dune book, the […]

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Normally, I would say, Dance Dance Revolution? No, thank you. I may be a nerd, but I’m not into that. I mean, that is like asking me if I’d like to go skydiving. And no, thank you, no reason to jump out of a perfectly good plane. Likewise, why stomp […]

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So, I’m curious, in my goal for 50 in 52…do Trade Paperbacks count. More specifically, a trade paperback for a comic book. Since I live right across the street from Chicago Comic Vault I end up reading a lot of books. Before you start making fun of me…modern books are largely gear […]

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Well, I just updated wordpress and switched themes…I’ve got a ways to go still…and comments still aren’t being sent through email right, but hopefully I’ll get that worked out over the next couple of days. As a side note, things with the election seem to be starting to go better, and I hope you […]

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I’ve been struggling a lot lately with my place in the spiritual world. So I thought (and the word ends up overused in this post) serendipitous that my brother yesterday called me asking me to right a ‘form’ letter to retreatents for (and I use this spelling to keep people from finding this when […]

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If I never read another word that Descartes wrote, I will be a happier man. First of all, even Descartes contemporaries (in the Rejections, as the book had Rejections from others, and then a Response to each rejection) said that he hadn’t presented a new idea throughout the entire work. Not to mention, […]

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First thought, its cold outside. I really really liked the 60 degree days we were having a week or two ago. They were nice. I want them back. Really.
Second thought, the media is oblivious and the administrations are full of shit. I’m referring particularly to Chicago Public Schools and the […]

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I finished The Red Tent last night. It was a really really interesting book I thought. The premise was following the story of Dinah, only daughter of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abram.
I enjoy religious studies in general, and this was my first biblical fiction novel I’ve read, and it was a […]

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Hey folks, I have to make a completely shameless plug. I really need your help. I need you to go over to comicbookelection.com and vote for ‘president.’ I’ll write a full post later about Comic Book Election and what it is, and all that fun stuff, but please go check it out […]

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