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March 12, 2010

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On the Ebert Profile

In today’s installment, I am going to jump on the ’share the Roger Ebert Esquire story with the world’ bandwagon.  I know I am at least a couple of days late, if not more.  Ah well.  I will start out by saying that I do not read Roger Ebert.  I do not really watch [...]

So, Meanwhile.

It is incredibly frustrating to find myself here:  struggling to force myself to do what I once did because I could not NOT do it.  Create.  Even this blog is a struggle.  I am consumed with organizing and compartmentalizing thoughts, techniques, ideas, facets of my life.  I spend most of my idle waking moments in [...]

Hello Rut

Today I came to the realization, some time between 2:30 pm and 5:45 pm, that one of the major problems that needs to be addressed re: my literary and pictorial creations is that neither my writing nor my photography resemble the literature or the photographs I admire.  Not even remotely. 

I blame DeviantART (to [...]

What Blog Is This?

So… I have been at this weblog thing for over a year now, and I am still struggling with getting-started issues.  This site has never, ever been fully fleshed out.  Here on the longest ’step 1′ ever, I can only claim to have figured out what this blog is not.  For example, this blog is [...]

Report Card (7-13 Dec ‘09)

weight: 138.4 exercise: 0 blogs written: 0 photographs edited & posted: 0 books read: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (witty, graceful, sad… plot wasn’t what I expected) my dad: awesome

The [...]

Report Card (16-22 Nov ‘09)

weight: 138.8 exercise:      300 pushups     30 sit-ups     140 side bends     2 ‘other’ cardio activities books read: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (page 591; [...]