Monthly Archives: July 2008

HBO Goes All Out for True Blood

I’d heard for a long time that Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire series was getting made into an HBO series. September it shall debut in a series created by the Six Feet Under guy and starring Anna Paquin. Pretty cool. Their … Continue reading

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Go See WALL*E

Just got back from it. The first five minutes of the movie has some of the most well done character development I’ve seen in a long, long time, and it does it with a robot, a cockroach, and no dialogue. … Continue reading

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Writing and Reading – Do you need to do both?

So, sometimes I stumble upon an old blog entry that strikes my fancy. Here’s one. http://dglm.blogspot.com/2007/11/jim-mccarthy-is-excited-that-3-out-of-4.html My favorite parts: When the AP did their recent poll on literacy, they found that one in four Americans didn’t read a book last … Continue reading

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My One Sided Chat to Kat as She Worked Really Really Really Late

Sorry. There’s a free chapter for a book called Gargoyle on Amazon. It’s this literary fiction piece that I think got recommended to me because it involved reincarnation, but g’damn; I can’t stop reading it. And I don’t usually like … Continue reading

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Floor Tiling

Yesterday I learned how to tile a floor. It wasn’t bad; no breathing breathing strange dust and I could sit and work at my own pace, and at the end, I had end-product progress I could see. We’re adding an … Continue reading

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