From the monthly archives:
This past Saturday my good friend Clint married the lovely Sally Ann in Richmond, VA. I had the great honor of being the best man, though I probably got away without doing as much work as is typically required of a best man since I had no clue what I was doing.
Still, the weekend was [...]
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Last night on CBS, the American Film Institute (AFI) unveiled it’s updated list of the 100 greatest movies of the last 100 years.
The first list was the result of a poll taken in 1997, thus covering the years 1897-1997. The new list bumps the 100-year span up 10 years to cover 1907-2007, thus including the [...]
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Last week Emily and I spent some time on vacation with my family at Fripp Island in South Carolina. Along with my parents, my sisters Jennifer and Lauren were there. Jennifer brought her friend, Thirza, and with Lauren came her daughter (my niece), Sara Beth.
On our way there, Emily and I had an adventure at [...]
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I am now announcing publicly to the world that Emily and I are engaged to be married. This is not really breaking news, but I recently came under fire from two friends for not making this information widely enough known.
First, there was my friend Jim Hobart who was horrified that I had not posted anything [...]
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This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.