February 2012
21 posts
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Feb 25th
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Current Book: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Also i finished Dana Spiotta’s ‘Eat The Document’. Interesting political book of our time by a young novelist. Worth a read I think, even though some of the character’s are one dimensional ‘serve a purpose’ jobs and the writing is slack at parts…
Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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War and US Society Essay
Touching the Marble: U.S. Political Rhetoric, the Iraq War and the Home Front
Feb 23rd
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American Contemporary Literature
Need to start my essay soonish. Think its going to be on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as an exploration of personel security issues post 9/11, compared to the more orthodox attempt made by Joseph O’Neill with Netherlands….
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 20th
“I know a girl called Elsa She’s into Alka Seltzer She sniffs it through...”
– Noel Gallagher- Supersonic
Feb 20th
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Feb 18th
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reading...
Feb 15th
Feb 15th
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Favourite Runners
1. Ryan Hall 2. Kara Goucher 3. Chris Solinsky
Feb 15th
Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 7th
Majorly Failing
trying to understand Stiglitz’s article on Trade and Capital Market liberalization and how it blah blah blahhed the world. Thank you Econ degree for serving me well.
Feb 5th
Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
Downtown from Behind- Bridget Fleming
Feb 2nd
January 2012
27 posts
Jan 31st
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 25th
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Reading
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Just finished Libra by Don Delillo. An interesting analysis of the JFK assassination that muddies the line between conspiracy and Oswald as a lone gunman. Incredibly in depth. 
Jan 25th
Jan 21st
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Holocene is
 my favourite song on my ipod currently I think. It’s nice to close your eyes and drift…
Jan 15th
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DFW
If you’re up there listening, 60 pages was too long to write an essay in your writing style on t.v. and postmodernist/contemporary American fiction. The fact that I can get lost in a paragraph of your work does not help. kind regards, frustrated student
Jan 14th
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“I thought; But of course. He is our Kennedy”
– Roth writing about Swede Levov in American Pastoral
Jan 14th
Jan 14th
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College Class on The Wire
So next semester I’m taking a class that uses the medium of t.v. drama The Wire to teach aspects of American society, culture and the decline of the modern industrial city. It’s going to be pretty awesome I think. Plus the Prof.s a bit of a genius. He edited a book of essays on it recently I think.
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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two things i learnt today: There really was a welsh pirate called Captain Morgan. Horses can’t vomit. (crazy when you think about it, just dont spend too much time thinking about it)
Jan 12th
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Currently Reading
 ’tis awesome
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Bartlet: Yep, it was the rebate.
Charlie: It wasn't a rebate, it was an advance.
Bartlet: You say potato...
Charlie: I do say potato, and so does everybody else I know.
Jan 8th
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Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave.
Jan 7th
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“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel
Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
10 things...
I have 14 books left to read or at least skim some of the lesser ones before college starts again on the 16th. I want to leave this town, its beginning to bore me.I wish i lived in New York, I will live there. The last truly great book I read for the first time was Disgrace by Coetzee, the last I reread was Let the Great World Spin by McCann. I’m currently in the process of watching all...
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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Finished Paul Auster's Ghosts
Enjoyable, interesting, well crafted novella that confuses me to no end… Maybe I’ll try quickly to skim through Joe Klein’s Clinton book, which should help my essay, before progressing to Don Delillo’s Libra, which has to be read for class. No rest…
Jan 2nd
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This city will one day be my home and I cannot...
to get lost on its streets, be immersed in its culture, be one of its people.
Jan 2nd
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“If I become antique you’ll collect me, If I become cheap then you’ll...”
– Fionn Regan- Snowy Atlas Mountains
Jan 1st
December 2011
16 posts
Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy
Brilliant works of genius.
Dec 31st
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Ed King by David Guterson
Interesting book, well written and flows but the whole plot is based around the Oedipus Complex so you’re kind of asking yourself why he had to go there in the first place? There’s better stuff to read to be honest… Next up Ghosts by Paul Auster(New York Trilogy:book 2) and Libra by Don Delillo
Dec 31st