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  • John Armstrong, you’re a genius

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    John Armstrong was a freaking genius, was he not? This is just the kind of layout that makes boys big and small pucker their mouths and go “Oooooo!” Or at least that’s what it did to me. I go gaga for layout track plans with lots of track looped on top of itself with a… Read.

  • More More More

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    My earworm for the past friggin week, maybe even longer than that, has been “More, More, More” by The Andrea True Connection. Where the hell did that come from? I didn’t like that song when it was popular, I never had a copy of the single or the album, nobody ever plays it on the… Read.

  • Conspiracy Theory

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    So there I was, down on my hands and knees scrubbing brown fungus out of the cracks between the floor tiles. I had a portable radio tuned to the local oldies station and cranked up loud so I could sing along with Pat Benatar on Hit Me With Your Best Shot, a song that I… Read.

  • The Path Between The Seas

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    I enjoy reading about the turn of the century quite a lot. Not the last turn of the century, that one was a cosmic let-down. I’m talking about the ten or fifteen years on either side of the line dividing the 1800s and the 1900s. It’s easily the most interesting history of modern humankind. On… Read.

  • Ramen II

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    I followed My Darling B’s advice and planned ahead this time: I found one of those giant-sized tea cups, the ones that are big enough to bathe a cat in, at St. Vinnie’s yesterday and brought it home to run it through the dish washer because, y’know, yuck. It’s probably been handled by everybody and… Read.

  • Ramen Dreams

    I had the strangest craving for ramen this afternoon, and not even the really good kind you can only get in a noodle shop in northern Japan in the midst of a snowstorm. I was drooling for the kind of ramen you can only get in a brick off the shelf at your local big-box… Read.

  • The Path Between The Seas

    I didn’t have any trouble falling asleep last night. In fact, after my head hit the pillow I had so much trouble staying awake long enough to finish the chapter I was reading that I read the last paragraph so many times I ought to know it by heart now. The Path Between The Seas… Read.

  • The Wire

    B and I watched episodes one, two and three of The Wire last night. I know it’s a TV show so old it’s been off the air almost three years, but we haven’t watched television since about 2005 and that was back when we were still living in Misawa, Japan, so we’ve got some catching… Read.

  • New Year’s Eve

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    Today’s New Year’s Eve so we get the day off because we’re state workers. It’s one of the benefits that are showered on us like confetti at a hero’s ticker-tape parade. I can’t wait to see how that’s going to change. Watch this space. But for now, we’re enjoying the day off: Sleeping in a… Read.

  • Colonel Roosevelt

    I finished Colonel Roosevelt two and a half weeks after I started, partly because it’s five hundred seventy pages of solidly-written biography, and party because I put it on pause to read three other books. It’s not that the subject was uninteresting (perish the thought!) or the writing was poor (never!), it was me. I… Read.

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