Archive for the ‘Classic Literature’ Category

Malarky Monday 25.1

Posted: 8th March 2010 by ~m in Australia, Babies, Classic Literature, Humor, Just For Fun, Malarky Monday, Raymond Carver, SNL, Truth, YouTube, education, women
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Malarky Monday is HERE!
AND HERE!
AND HERE!
AND HERE!

You know the drill by now.Watch, read, listen and [hopefully] LAUGH!Visit the above links after your visit here and be sure to have somepaper towels to wipe off your computer monitor.
I originally intended to go all political this week but have decided against it.I’m not wussing out, I just [...]

Get it right next time

Posted: 17th February 2010 by ~m in Angels, Books, Cigars, Classic Literature, Friends, Music, Personal, Video, deaths
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A dear friend of mine died last Sunday.I just found out about it today.Ironic that I was looking for something in my closet just the other day andlooked up on my bookshelf to see my old copy of “Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, the cult novel by Robert Persig.Its pink and black cover reeking [...]

Carver

Posted: 2nd February 2010 by ~m in Books, Classic Literature, Creative, Life, Personal, Raymond Carver, Truth, amazing, dark, hero, prayer
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Reading ‘Carver‘ right now.Please READ THIS.You will spend 20 minutes of your life and thank me.This is one of Carver’s most amazing short stories.Please take the time and read it.The man was amazing.Simply amazing . . .
 

2,592,000 seconds

Posted: 24th August 2009 by ~m in Akubra Hats, Australia, Blogging, Classic Literature, Creative, Life, Personal, Reading, Sad, Time, Trainride, Travel, Truth, weird, writing
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I figured out that I spend approximately one month a year riding the train back and forth to Boston.
One month.
30 days.
720 hours.
43,200 minutes.
2,592,000 seconds.
I write, read, sleep, text message, eat, drink
and look out the slightly opaque windows and think.
I’ve been doing this for over 4 years and if it weren’t for my writing stuff and [...]

Die

Posted: 6th April 2009 by ~m in Beer, Bengal cats, Blogging, Blues Brothers, Books, Cats, Christmas, Cigars, Classic Literature, Creative, Denis Leary, Dreams, Family, Food, Football, Friends, God, Guinness, Holidays, Humor, Jazz music, Just For Fun, Lewis Black, Life, Love, Memoir, Michel Camilo, Mingus, Music, Old Days, Personal, Poetry, Reading, Red Sox, Sad, Smoking, Stars, Truth, Wordpress, chances, comedians, dark, fast food, fathers and daughters, piano, pizza, prayer, sexy, twins, wishes, women, wordpress templates, writers, writing
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I began reading the new Natalie Goldberg book  ‘Old Friend from Far Away’ a few days ago.
It’s a book custom-tailored for writers of memoir.
So far the book is quite good (like all of her books).
Page 14 has a prompt that I’ve decided to turn into a post.
The chapter is quite short:
“Die”
Tell me what you will [...]

Reading, Writing and Blogging in ‘09

Posted: 29th December 2008 by ~m in Angels, Beer, Blogging, Books, Classic Literature, Dreams, Family, Food, Football, God, Heath Ledger, Holidays, Life, Mondays, Patriots, Personal, Quotes, Reading, Truth, Wordpress, chances, dancing, fathers and daughters, freinds, health, prayer, templates, twins, wishes, women, writing
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I made it through the holiday, y’all.
Christmas Eve found me a bit crazy though (as my wife will attest)
What can I say, Maker’s Mark bourbon makes me silly.
Go figure.
But, I had fun, ‘kissing-my-brother-in-law on the cheek’ fun.
Yeah, I don’t think he liked it though.
My sister did give me the holiday hat of my dreams though.

We [...]

Lit meme

Posted: 9th March 2007 by ~m in Books, Classic Literature, Love, Reading, Short Story, Truth
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This was a great meme I saw posted at Interstellar Adventures.
I’m a bit ashamed I haven’t read more of these.
I also feel that Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, Russell Banks and Tobias Wolff (for starters) should have been included.
That being said here’s my whimpy list.
Instructions:
Look at the list of books below.
*Bold the ones you’ve read
*Italicize the [...]

Ipods n’ books

Posted: 5th February 2007 by ~m in Books, Cats, Classic Literature, Ipod, Itunes, Just For Fun, MP3s, Truth, audiobooks
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Found a nice site that has some very slick downloadable material for
your Ipod. From Poe and Kafka to Dostoyevsky and Dickens there’s something for everyone that has an MP3 player in their lives (and likes audiobooks).
Best of all, it’s free.
Click on the stack of books above (the contents of all would easily fit on one [...]