More ruminations, rambles, rants and raves from the downhill side of the mountain.
Just so you know exactly where I stand vis-a-vis today's polarized politics, let me recommend this organization to you.
And I also recommend my gentle employer to you as well. The Barnes & Noble Affiliate Network, which seemed to have stopped working, is back in operation, so the links and banners are working again.
Now, go buy some books.
And I also recommend my gentle employer to you as well. The Barnes & Noble Affiliate Network, which seemed to have stopped working, is back in operation, so the links and banners are working again.
Now, go buy some books.
Links:
Fox Den: Creative (i.e. Fiction)Writing
A Pilgrim's Progress
Ian's Knowledge Modelling Weblog
Future Scan: Future Studies Department University of Houston at Clear Lake
PLSJ (aka Anne, the Anthropologist)
link
Lost in Transit
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Coffee Grounds
Traveling in Style
Slacktivist Recommended with a bullet!
Hoofin To You: Bridgewater, NJ politics
Inadmissible Evidence
Big Black Van
Overflow
In Spite of Years of Silence
Metamorphosism (Mig's new blog)
Real Live Preacher
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Alas, A Blog
A Fistful of Euros
BuzzMachine
Eschaton
Pedantry
The Poor Man
Barefoot and Naked
Boing Boing
Craigblog
Fafglob
The Road to Surfdom
link
E-Mail Me
My Other Blogs, Journals and such
Fox Den: Creative (i.e. Fiction)Writing
A Pilgrim's Progress
Business/Economics/Future Studies and other Social Sciences
Ian's Knowledge Modelling Weblog
Future Scan: Future Studies Department University of Houston at Clear Lake
PLSJ (aka Anne, the Anthropologist)
link
International
Lost in Transit
link
New Jersey New York Pennsylvania and Delaware
Coffee Grounds
Traveling in Style
Slacktivist Recommended with a bullet!
Hoofin To You: Bridgewater, NJ politics
Inadmissible Evidence
Personal/General
Big Black Van
Overflow
In Spite of Years of Silence
Metamorphosism (Mig's new blog)
Real Live Preacher
Blogs with Attitude
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Alas, A Blog
A Fistful of Euros
BuzzMachine
Eschaton
Pedantry
The Poor Man
Barefoot and Naked
Boing Boing
Craigblog
Fafglob
The Road to Surfdom
link
E-Mail Me
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And finally, here are a few books I might recommend for your edification and amazement.
What's the Matter with Kansas?
Monday, July 07, 2003
That, of course, is the tag line in a Lou Reed/Velvet Underground lyric, and that is used because I am feeling in a somewhat Undergroundish way this evening. It, of course, has nothing to do with what I think I'm going to write about. I say "think" because, even at this late date, I am still not sure what my subject for the evening will be.
One of the perks of working for "A major bookseller" has to be the freebie paperbacks one has access to once a month. Once a month we send books back to distributors/publishers. These are books which are not selling or have passed their prime marketing days. The large paperbacks and hardcover books actually get sent, physically, to the appropriate party for credit. Mass market paperbacks, however, only get their front covers sent back. The rest of the book gets tossed into the trash. Well...once we tear off (strip) the front cover of a book, my employer doesn't really care what we do with it. Well...that's not entirely true. There is a company policy that limits employees to taking home 3 "strips" at a time. Except that there is no policy that prevents us from dumpster diving. So, most store managments, once a book is "stripped", don't care where you get it from: the trash inside or the trash outside. I prefer to get my "strips" from the inside trash. This month I brough home at least 20 books. Most of them will go to other people (brothers, nephews, son, son's mother-in-law, etc.) as I have no time to read that many books these days. However, I will read a couple of them...Joe Haldeman's Forever War being one of them.
The baby has had the weekend off from her grandparents. That is probably a good thing. I am afraid that she is beginning to think of us as her primary family. She is so cute and sooooo smart, and I am so lucky to have this time with her--but I sometimes fear that I am being too much the father and not enough the grandfather. Fortunately, this will soon (well, a year from now MOL) come to an end when she enters her grandmother's Montessori school. Then she will only see Granddad in passing a couple times a week. Most of her day will be spent with teachers and then her parents. And our relationship, which now is very close, will revert to a more normal grandparent sort of thing. I would be lying, though, if I said that I won't be sorry when this happens. She has enriched my life in a way I could not have contemplated 25 years ago. 'Nuff said...
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