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Okay, it's been decided: This blog will survive. Maybe even thrive. A major writing project has fallen through, leaving me with nothing to work on. It's the first time in ten years. Commencing immediately, I will plow (almost) all my writing efforts into this blog. I&

Thursday

Medal score: China 82, USA 62 [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/medals]. I gotta believe the USA will pick up ground when we get to track and field, but it doesn't really matter. The Olympians are having lots of sex [http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/8448176/

Monday Moanin'

Another weekend, another time drain. This time, the annual jaunt to Frankenmuth [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenmuth] for the Summer Music Festival [http://www.frankenmuthfestivals.com/?page_id=4]. It was good to see my wife's family, but I'm bummin' at the hour glass

Saturday Stuff

I watched Longford [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0759612/] with Marie and the older kids last night. Highly recommended, but I wouldn't let anybody under 14 watch it (disturbing theme). It's about a devout and sincere Catholic's efforts to get the notorious Myra Hindley

Tuesday Blurbs

Summer is over. The kids start school today, and things return to normal. Thing is, I kinda like it when things aren't normal, especially when it means my days aren't sandwiched between getting the kids to school and getting home in time for children's

The Disco Scene?

I couldn't help it. When I read this passage from The New Book of Lists, I immediately thought of the vertical foreplay in American discos circa 1978: > Hippos have their own form of aromatherapy. They attract mates by marking territory, urinating and defecating at the same time.

The Thousand

1,000 films to see before you die [http://film.guardian.co.uk/1000films/0,,2108487,00.html]. I'll be lucky to see 50 of them, but it's a pretty neat list so far.

More Sopranos Fall-out

Deadline Hollywood Daily [http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/thats-what-we-were-waiting-for-angry-fans-crash-hbo-website/] . Excerpt: > Apparently, my extreme reaction was typical of many series' fans: they crashed HBO's website for a time tonight trying to register their outrage. HBO could suffer a wave of cancellations as a result. (Already, the pay channel&

Welborn on Sopranos

Amy understands fiction, and she has done a good job of breaking down last night's final episode of The Sopranos. [http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2007/06/cut_to_black.html#more] She dismisses Kathryn Lopez's explanation [http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmFmNDA0MTkxY2I0NDM5MjdjOTA0Yzc1OWNhYTkzYTc=] (to wit,

Spidered Out

No blogging this morning. I went to see Spider-Man 3 last night. I'd give it a five. I'm not bummed I went, but it's too long (the same thing happened with SM2; there was an urge to scream, "Move it along!"). The