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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
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5:18 pm - book reports 1/6/09--05/28/09
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01/06/09 THE ROAD *audio* -Cormac McCarthy- fiction. post apocalyptic. father & son. Recommended.
01/09/09 PILLARS OF THE EARTH *audio* -Ken Follett- historical fiction. England. Cathedral building in the 12th century. Recommended.
01/15/09 WHITEOUT *audio* -Ken Follett- fiction. thriller. virus theft.
01/20/09 EVERYMAN *audio* -Philip Roth- fiction. mortality. aging.
01/22/09 LONDON CALLING *audio* -Edward Bloor- ya. fiction. World War II time travel.
01/29/09 BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN *audio* -Charles Bock- fiction.
02/04/09 DEARLY DEVOTED DEXTER *audio* -Jeff Lindsay- mystery. fiction. murder. sociopath. Second book in the Dexter series.
02/13/09 BONE CROSSED -Patricia Briggs- fiction. fantasy. walker. werewolves. vampires. Forth in the Mercy Thompson coyote shifter series.
02/16/09 ANATHEM *audio* -Neal Stephenson- science fiction. I wanted to like this giant story more. I love Stephenson, but there was too much philosophical rambling. Really cool science, math, space ideas, just wish it was more concise.
02/20/09 SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE *audio* -Austin Grossmen- fiction. superheroes & villains. Quite entertaining.
03/04/09 DR. BLOODMONEY *audio* -Philip K. Dick- science fiction. post apocalyptic.
03/17/09 MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON *audio* -Lauren Groff- fiction. family. lake monsters.
03/23/09 ENDER'S GAME *audio* -Orson Scott Card- science fiction. Highly recommended.
03/26/09 SELECTIONS FROM DREAMSONGS VOL. II *audio* -George R.R. Martin- short stories. fantasy. science fiction.
03/29/09 PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY -Amelia Atwater-Rhodes- fiction. ya. vampires. I like this author, but this book was terrible!
04/01/09 ENDER'S SHADOW *audio* -Orson Scott Card- science fiction. The story of Ender's Game with a new perspective.
04/14/09 VOLUNTARY MADNESS *audio* -Norah Vincent- non-fiction. Norah checks herself into various mental institutions and compares their treatments.
04/21/09 A DARKNESS FORGED IN FIRE *audio* -Chris Evans- fantasy. elves. Book one of the Iron Elves. It was ok.
04/24/09 THE CANON : A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science *audio* -Natalie Angier- non-fiction. science. Each chapter goes in depth of a different science topic or subject.
04/29/09 THE HUNGER GAMES *audio* -Suzanne Collins- ya. science fiction. In a dystopian future kids fight each other for the entertainment of the higher casts. Very good.
05/07/09 DEAD AND GONE -Charline Harris- fiction. vampires. Sookie Stackhouse book 9.
05/17/09 HOOD *audio* -Stephen Lawhead- fiction. A disappointing retelling of Robin Hood.
05/19/09 SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN *audio* -Lisa See- historical fiction. 19th-century China. Women friendships. foot binding. Highly recommended.
05/20/09 PEONY IN LOVE *audio* -Lisa See- historical fiction. 17th-century China. Arranged marriage and Chinese supernatural beliefs of the time. This is one of my current favorite books. Highly recommended.
05/26/09 THE STARS, LIKE DUST *audio* -Isaac Asimov- science fiction. space mystery.
05/28/09 MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN *audio* -Jonathan Lethem- fiction. organized crime. This audio book reading of a character with Tourette's syndrome is amazing. Low on the crime food chain, Lionel Essrog, looks to find who killed his crime boss. Highly recommended.
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| Sunday, July 5th, 2009
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3:49 pm - book reports 08/05/08--12/2008
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08/05/08 BLIND WILLOW, SLEEPING WOMAN *audio* -Haruki Murakami- fiction. short stories. Japan.
08/06/08 BREAKING DAWN -Stephenie Meyer- ya fic. vampires. Last book in Twilight series. When to subjects I don't generally like reading about but overall had a fulfilling conclusion to the series.
08/11/08 LIFE OF PI *audio* -Yann Martel- fiction. tigers. memory. Indian boys shares a liferaft with a tiger. Excellent.
08/14/08 MICAH *audio* -Laurell K. Hamilton- fiction. vampires. sex. One of those silly Anita Blake porno vampire hunter books.
08/19/08 ORYX AND CRAKE *audio* -Margaret Atwood- science fiction. post-bioapocalyptic. mutation. Interesting but was not a smooth audio read while multitasking.
08/21/08 THE SOCIETY OF S *audio* -Susan Hubbard- fiction. vampires? Forgettable.
08/26/08 GHOSTWALKER -Erik Scott DeBie- fantasy. forgotten realms.
08/28/08 CITY OF BONES *audio* -Cassandra Clare- ya fantasy. Teen demon and monster hunters. Book one in Mortal Instruments.
08/29/08 SPECIALS *audio* -Scott Westerfeld- ya. science fiction. dystopia. Book three.
09/04/08 IRON KISSED -Patricia Briggs- fiction. fantasy. walker. werewolves. fae. Third in the Mercy Thompson coyote shifter series.
09/04/08 STRANGE CANDY *audio* -Laurell K. Hamilton- fantasy. supernatural. short stories.
09/09/08 TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE *audio* -Audry Niefenegger- science fiction. family. Involuntary time travel. Highly recommended.
09/17/08 SABRIEL *audio* -Garth Nix- ya. fantasy. magic. necromancy. Abhorsen book 1. Highly recommended series. Audio read by Tim Curry.
09/25/08 LIRAEL *audio* -Garth Nix- ya. fantasy. magic. necromancy. Abhorsen book 2. Highly recommended series. Audio read by Tim Curry.
10/01/08 ABHORSEN *audio* -Garth Nix- ya. fantasy. magic. necromancy. Abhorsen book 3. Highly recommended series. Audio read by Tim Curry.
10/02/08 ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY *audio* -David Sedaris- memoir.
10/04/08 VICTORY OF EAGLES -Naomi Novik- fantasy. dragons. Napoleonic wars. Temerairebook 5.
10/06/08 THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY *audio*reread* -Douglas Adams- science fiction. humor.
10/10/08 CRY WOLF -Patricia Briggs- fiction. fantasy. werewolves. Alpha and Omega book 1.
10/13/08 JANE BOLEYN: THE TRUE STORY OF THE INFAMOUS LADY ROCHFORD *audio* -Julia Fox- British history. royalty. Henry VIII.
10/15/08 BLUE LATITUDES: BOLDLY GOING WHERE CAPTIAN COOK HAS GONE BEFORE *audio* -Tony Horwitz- history. travel. humor.
10/16/08 AC/DC: THE SAVAGE TALE OF THE FIRST STANDARDS WAR. *audio* -Tom McNichol- history. electricity. Thomas Edison vs. Nikola Tesla.
10/24/08 POISON *audio* -Chris Wooding- ya. fantasy. fae. Stolen little sisters.
10/29/08 THE THIRD ANGEL *audio* -Alice Hoffman- fiction.
11/04/08 THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdo *audio* -Simon Winchester- history. China.
11/20/08 THE WOMAN WHO CAN'T FORGET: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory *audio* -Jill Price- non-fiction. memory.
11/24/08 DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER *audio* -Jeffry Lindsay- mystery. fiction. murder. sociopath.
12/xx/08 THE DRUNKARD'S WALK: How Randomness Rules Our Lives *audio* -Leonard Mlodinow- non-fiction. mathematics. statistical distribution.
12/xx/08 HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE *audio* -Diana Wynne Jones- ya. fantasy.
12/xx/08 I AM AMERICA AND SO CAN YOU *audio* -Stephen Colbert- current events. politics. humor. Read by Colbert.
12/xx/08 THE WAR: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 *audio* -Geoffrey Ward & Ken Burns- history. America in World War 2.
2009 coming soon...
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| Saturday, July 26th, 2008
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1:28 pm - book reports 10/03/07-07/25/08
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10/03/07 SPOOK COUNTRY -William Gibson- fiction. spying. new tech art.
11/08/07 UN LUN DUN -China Mieville- ya fiction. fantasy. london. umbrella. smog. London girl is the prophesied savior of alternate London.
11/13/07 WYVERNHAIL -Amelia Atwater-Rhodes- ya fantasy. shape changers. Cobra Falcon hybrid shape changer tries to reconcile her duality. Kiesha'ra series volume five.
01/09/08 END OF THE WORLD BLUES -Jon Courtenay Grimwood- sci-fi. cyberpunk. tokyo. gothic lolita. yakuza. alternate dimensions.
02/11/08 EMPIRE OF IVORY -Naomi Novik- fantasy. dragons. napoleonic wars. Temeraire, Book 4. The crew look to Africa to find a cure for the sickness that is afflicting almost all dragons.
03/31/08 RUNNING WITH SCISSORS -Augusten Burroughs- *audio* memoir. family. Burroughs funny and horrific childhood.
03/22/08 THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH : ALAN TURING AND THE INVENTION OF THE COMPUTER -David Leavitt- biography. cryptography. computer history. mathematics. Although Turning had an interesting life. His code breaking lead to the key the German's Enigma machine. The country he saves eventually destroys him for being a homosexual. This book was too dry for me. The mathematical details that go into the making of his computers and codes were way over my head, and I wanted more of his personal life.
03/24/08 TIPPING POINT -Malcolm Gladwell- sociology. business. How small actions make big changes in society. Interesting and informative, but I prefer his second book BLINK.
04/02/08 HOMELAND -R.A. Salvatore- fantasy. elves. Book one of the Dark Elf trilogy. The way the action is written in this is beautiful. This is the beginnings of the popular Forgotten Realms character Drizzt Do-Urden. I'm interested in seeing where he goes next.
04/09/08 THE RELUCTANT MR. DARWIN *audio* -David Quammen- biography. evolution. Biography of Darwin starting after his Beagle voyage.
04/14/08 GILGAMESH *audio* -Steven Michell- epic poetry. early writings. 4000-year-old poem of Gilgamesh and Enkidu pissing of the gods.
04/28/08 DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? *audio*reread* -Philip K. Dick- sci fic. androids. bounty hunters. memory.
05/04/08 THE BOOK OF THE FIVE RINGS -Miyamoto Musashi translated by Thomas Cleary- non-fiction. samurai. sword fighting. 1643 Japanese writings on fighting strategy. Includes The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War by Yagyu Munenori which contrast Musashi's style.
05/05/08 ODD THOMAS *audio* -Dean Koontz- supernatural fiction. First book in the Odd Thomas series. Odd, a realistic figure, not a superhero, sees dead people and fights evil in a small town.
05/07/08 TANTALIZE *audio* -Cynthia Leitich Smith- ya fantasy fiction. vampires. Vampire themed restaurant in Texas. Some YA books are too stupid for adults to enjoy. Here is one of them. The reader in this audio also reads male voices horribly.
05/09/08 FROM DEAD TO WORSE -Charline Harris- fiction. vampires. weres. fae. Book eight in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series. I preferred this one to the last two, because the writer is finishing or adding to storylines that went unattended. Not a very complete stand alone novel but a great dive in to Sookie's world. Read the first novel DEAD UNTIL DARK before the True Blood series starts on HBO.
05/15/08 Seeing Redd *audio -Frank Beddor- ya fantasy. Book two in the Looking Glass Wars. An alternate Alice in Wonderland series. I preferred the previous book in the series.
05/20/08 THE ASTONISHING ADVENTURES OF FANBOY AND GOTHGIRL *audio* -Barry Lyga- ya fic. comic books. outcasts.
05/22/08 LOOKING FOR ALASKA *audio* -John Green- ya fiction. teens. private school. I didn't care for this critically acclaimed teen novel. Stupid kids doing stupid things tries my patience.
05/29/08 WINTER SMITH *audio* -Terry Pratchett- ya fantasy. witches. magic. snow. This is the first solo Pratchett I've read, and it was hilarious. Pratchett's voice actor is also perfect. Great accents.
06/00/08 TWILIGHT *audio*reread* -Stephenie Meyer- ya fic. vampires.
06/01/08 NEW MOON *audio*reread* -Stephenie Meyer- ya fic. vampires. werewolves.
06/08/08 ECLIPSE *audio*reread* -Stephenie Meyer- ya fic. vampires. werewolves. In anticipation for the fourth book's release in August, I reread one of my favorite series.
06/13/08 A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT *audio* -Laura Whitcomb- ya fiction. ghosts. Body snatching teenage ghosts. Pretty good although I already can't remember how it ends.
07/10/08 THE HOST -Stephenie Meyer- science fiction. aliens. Meyer's first adult title. This was great! Love triangle with alien body snatchers.
07/11/08 BRAVE NEW WORLD *audio*reread* -Aldus Huxley- science fiction. dystopia.
07/17/08 UGLIES *audio* -Scott Westerfeld- ya. science fiction. dystopia. Book one in the series.
07/23/08 PRETTIES *audio* -Scott Westerfeld- ya. science fiction. dystopia. Book two. Great voice actor on the audio.
07/25/08 STEPPENWOLF *audio*reread* -Herman Hesse- fiction. despair. 1929 novel, the narrator attempts to reconcile his dual nature. Audio read by Peter Weller (robocop, naked lunch) is a perfect fit for this character.
-to be proofread and fleshed out later.
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| Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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7:10 pm - back
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Hey it's been a while.
Did I miss anything in the last six months?
I've got a dev. art thing http://the2ndvariety.deviantart.com/
I have a new external hard drive that I love! got a Wii, looking for a condo (need to save more),
and I'm also in love with a boy. life's pretty good.
current music: autovon
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| Monday, October 8th, 2007
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7:42 pm - mix cd, blue heptagon
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Theme mix: happy songs.
I was going for bouncy. A lot of this is from my school days.
1 Legend of Zelda medley
2 Tarmvred - 6
3 Faderhead - mono man
4 Gusgus - ladyshave
5 Beborn Beton - ambush
6 Horrorpops - walk like a zombie
7 Danny Elfman - it only makes me laugh
8 Okino - cloud age symphony
9 Bitshifter - antenna
10 Pixies - wave of mutilation
11 MU330 - fat and married
12 Gackt - vanilla
13 the Misfits - the haunting
14 Wumpscut - all cried out
15 Dwarves - demonica
16 the Stereo - devotion
17 Apocalypse Hoboken - little fingers
18 Eclectics - siddhartha
19 Oingo Boingo - sweat
20 Bad Religion - sky scraper
21 Muse - feeling good
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I'm on Deviant art now. New painting up, and a bunch of really old stuff.
http://the2ndvariety.deviantart.com/
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Listen to the new Mind.in.a.box
current mood:  restless
current music: mind.in.a.box - crossroads.
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| Saturday, August 25th, 2007
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4:22 pm - mix cd, silver square
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Made a mix cd this week. Mostly movie scores. There was so much more I wanted to put on this. There may be a volume 2. Let me know if you want one. (no mailing)
Patrick Doyle - st. crispin's day/battle of agincort - Henry V
Mogwai - I know you are but what am I?
M. Nyman - the other side - Gattaca
M Nyman - the departure - Gattaca
Trevor Jones - you have the power - Dark City
Clint Mansell (mogwai&kronosquartet) - death is the road to awe - the Fountain
Patrick Doyle - kissing in the rain - Great Expectations
James Newton Howard - the great eatlon - Lady in the Water
M. Nyman - the heart asks for pleasure first - the Piano
Thomas Newman - the road to chicago - Road to Perdition
Trevor Jones - elk hunt - the last of the mohicans
Trevor Jones - the kiss - the last of the mohicans
James Horner - charging fort wagner - Glory
Shigeru Umebayashi - 2046 main theme - 2046
Bear McCreary - the shape of things to come - Battlestar Galactica ssn 1
LOUD
my brother just sent me this.. interesting.
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| Saturday, August 11th, 2007
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10:44 am - book reports 02/27/07-08/09/07
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02/27/07 BLOOD & CHOCOLATE -Annette Curtis Klause- fiction. fantasy. ya. werewolves. Werewolf girl likes human boy. Lots of teen angst, but it doesn't get whiney. Mature and well written. I hear the movie is nothing like the book.
03/15/07 THE END OF FAITH -Sam Harris- nonfiction. atheist. Great argument on why faith is bad for civilization, and how much better off we'd be without it. I applaud Harris for trying to tear down the taboo of questioning each other's beliefs based on faith, especially when they have effect on so many others.
03/17/07 YOU DON'T LOVE ME YET -Jonathan Lethem- fiction. art. relationships. comedy. Woman in rock band, with ex-boyfriend singer, works at a call center for complaints and becomes interested in one of the frequent callers. Not the best Lethem I've read, but it's charming, emotional, funny, and still has his amazing language style.
04/11/07 SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES *Audio* -Ray Bradbury- boys. coming of age. carnivals. evil. Two best friends versus an evil carnival. The prose is good but I wasn't that into the story. Maybe because it's such a classic I was expecting more. Or it could have been the narrator. This was my first whole book on tape.
04/22/07 LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS -Charline Harris- *reread* fiction. mystery. vampires. fantasy. Second book in the Southern vampire mysteries. Rereading for escape.
04/30/07 THE NEVERENDING STORY -Michael Ende- fantasy. heroes. The movie only covers the first half of the book. The movie was a childhood favorite and in some ways it was more effective than the book. The main character was more likeable and the movie seemed more emotional. Especially the Swamp of Sadness scene. The book is much more of a morality tale, and does stand well on it's own. Translated from German.
05/03/07 All TOGETHER DEAD -Charline Harris- fantasy. vampires. Southern Vampire Mysteries book 7. This time it's at a vampire convention. HBO has a show coming out this fall, TRUE BLOOD, based on the series. I'm excited.
06/09/07 THE SILVER KISS -Annette Curtis Klause- fiction. vampires. ya. This book was terrible. I really like this author's Blood & Chocolate, but this one is written a few years prior.
06/22/07 THE SELFISH GENE: 30TH ANNIVERSARY ED. -Richard Dawkins- nonfiction. biology. Altruism vs. selfish behavior. This book didn't knock me on my ass, and send me in a bout of depression, like it seems to have other readers. I already was pretty decided on that our seemingly alturistic behaviors stem from selfish unconsious motivations. And not in a cynical way. Just in a thats the way things are way; and it doesn't mean we can't treat each other "good". Seeing it from the gene level was very interesting. His examples and language are great for the non-biology trained person.
07/02/07 THE GOLDEN COMPASS -Philip Pullman- *reread* fantasy. daemons. dust. panzerbears. First book in His Dark Materials series. Just read it as soon as you can. There are deeper things here that I'd love to say but then I'd be giving the book away.
07/11/07 MASTER AND COMMANDER *audio* -Patrick O'Brien- historical fiction. tall ships. British navy. First book in the Capt. Aubrey series. The language is very 1800 and navy technical. The opinions and thoughts of the characters are also very 1800's. Fuck pirates. The British Navy is where it's at.
07/21/07 INTERWORLD -Neil Gaiman and Michael Reeves- sci-fi. ya. alternate dimensions. A fun short interdimenstional novel where many different Joey Harkers fight the armies of magic and science. Some Joeys are female, half wolf, angel, bionic, ect.
07/24/07 HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS -J.K. Rowling- kids. fantasy. wizards. The last Harry Potter book. The large cast of characters is almost all here. It was a satisfying end, but some of the plot was a little hard to swallow, and seemed rushed.
08/09/07 ECLIPSE -Stephanie Meyer- fiction. ya. vampires. werewolves. relationships. Third book in the Twilight series. It looks like high school romance fluff, but it is very absorbing and well written. The characters have complex thoughts, emotions and problems. This may have been my least favorite of the three, but it's still way better than most of what's out there.
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| Saturday, July 28th, 2007
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2:21 pm - low light action digital camera
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I'm in the market for a digital camera. I've never owned one and have hardly used one before. Also not very camera/computer savy, so it needs to be easy.
A lot of the reviews online are directed at the pros. Not looking for something to take especially artistic photos, but if it can do that too good for me. I'm looking to take personal snapshots at clubs or in low light.
I'd like something that can have figures show up without always using the flash all the time.
quick in taking the picture and changing the mode.
some anti-shake/blur feature
under $200.
Anyone have good experiences in a dark setting with a low priced camera?
Or can list the features I should be shopping for?
thanks.
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| Thursday, April 26th, 2007
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7:16 pm - April photo shoot.
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| Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
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5:51 pm - The L word
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Excerpts from the crime chapter in Anneli Rufus' book "Party of One: the loner's manifesto"
I wish you could all read this chapter in it's entirety. I just copied out a few paragraphs. Sorry for typos.
The author's book introduction is here www.annelirufus.com but i wanted to focus on the media's use of this word. the news has got me all worked up.
"Like the bogeyman and the witches and ogres in fairy tales, the criminal-as-loner serves a social function. It sets the criminal apart from ordinary people, from the masses, designating him as a freak, a demon, an alien. This ties up matters neatly. It explains things. No "normal" person-one with friends and family, who says hello to his neighbors, who is recognizable as one of the mainstream tribe-- would rape a toddler or feed his murdered wife's corpse to a wood chipper. (The weirder and more perverse the crime, the more rapidly the press starts calling the perpetrator a loner) Declaring criminals loners -especially the sickest- is a form of primitive self-defense. It sets crime and the criminal mind safely outside the familiar realm of the majority. It is a way of saying this could never happen here. the kind of person who does that could never possibly be one of us. ...To ensure his separateness, to quarantine him, fling him beyond recogniability, sympathy, and even humanity, call him a loner.
While serving this purpose, the neutral word "loner" acquires a hideous coating.
But learning the true stories of criminals who are called loners in the press reveals, with striking frequency that these are not genuine loners. At first glance, they look or act like loners, but they are not. They do not wish to be alone. Their dislike of being alone is what drives them to violence.....
In the autumn of 2001, after anthrax spores sent through the mail killed several Americans, the FBI issued an official profile of the sender. "Loner Likley Sent Anthrax, FBI Says," ran the to LA times hedline. "FBI looking for a loner," declared Taiwan's Taipei Times. Other papers and networks worldwide joined the chorus. The profile also suggested that the killer was a 20 something American male scientist, familiar with New Jersey, who tended to hold grudges. While these details were mentioned in the articles, they did not make it to the headlines. Front pages did not scream, "Garden State grudge-holder sought" or "FBI pegs chemists." Of all the possible earmarks, "loner" took the hit.
If "driving while black" is cause for suspicion, then driving while a loner is none to safe, either. Imagine the uproar if all the articles cited so far in this chapter had used the words "Canadian" or "CPA" instead of "loner."
....What we have here is a crisis of semantics. The word "loner" based on the shallowest impressions of surface apperances, is being used wholesale to tar an amazing diversty of people- most of them not loners- with the same mucky brush. This crisis not only insults true loners, criminalizing innocent people through wrongheaded logic and myopic observation. It also keeps any actual criminals free, evading suspician as they bask in the safety of neither being nor appearing to be loners.
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| Friday, March 23rd, 2007
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10:26 pm - it's like x-mas.
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There were some things I've been wanting, and it's been a while, so I ordered a bunch of music. some of it was even on sale....
This Morn' Omina - Les Passages 2CD **I HEART THIS CD SO BAD***
Echoing Green - Evergreen coll. 94-01 2cd
Syrian - alien nation
Cyber Axis - the prophecy single
nineinch nails - hand that feeds german import single
Septic IV compilation. how did i miss this number?
Autovon - Conform
Heliosphere - Hands on nation
Goteki - revolution
goteki - o/s remix album
Combichrist- what the fuck..
i, parasite - horseslayer
(tactical sekt - burn process was sold out :(
but... the suprise was Emilie Autumn's - Opheliac 2cd.
It's distracting me from the other new items..
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| Sunday, February 25th, 2007
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12:32 pm - book reports 12/01/06-02/25/07
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12/01/06 MAKE LOVE THE BRUCE CAMPBELL WAY -Bruce Campbell- autobiographical fiction. humor. movies. I loved Bruce's If Chins Could Kill, so this was a bit of a dissapointment. The writting is funny but I often do not get wrapped up in the plot in humor fiction and I didn't in this.
12/10/06 LAST CHANCE TO SEE -Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine- nonfiction. ecology. endangered animals. travel. Douglas Adams travels the world visiting endangered animals before they become extinct. I was expecting more animal/conservation info and less of a travel memoir. But it was good, and sad.
12/16/06 WE -Yevgeny Zamyatin- fiction. sci-fi. utopia/dystopia. Russian written in 1920 story of a citizen of OneState, D-503, and his corruption by the woman, I-330. Similar to 1984 and Brave New World. A citizen begins to view his world from a new perspective.
12/16/06 THE LAUGHING CORPSE -Laurell K. Hamilton- fiction. horror. animator. zombies. vampires. The second book in the Anita Blake vampire hunter series. This one deals more with her profession as an "animator". She makes zombies, usually for legal cases and for families of the dead.
12/29/06 THE LOOKING GLASS WARS -Frank Beddor- ya fiction. fantasy. An alternative take on the world of Alice In Wonderland. Alyss Heart's parents are killed by Aunt Redd and Redd takes over the kingdom, Alyss escapes to our world and forgets her own. Great character development, danger, suspense. I'm looking forward to it's sequel.
12/31/06 CIRCUS OF THE DAMNED -Laurell K. Hamilton- fiction. horror. vampires. giant snakes. werewolves. Third book in the Anita Blake vampire hunter series. This one deals more with snake monsters. I find this series entertaining but I don't like biased the main character is with non-humans especially with her religion.
01/02/07 THE LUNATIC CAFE -Laurell K. Hamilton -ficiton. horror. vampires. werewolves. Fourth book in the Anita Blake vampire hunter series, the same action/gore style of the previous books. Now she's trying to solve the case of the missing werewolves.
01/20/07 DEAD UNTIL DARK -Charline Harris- *reread* fiction. horror. fantasy. vampires. I was feeling stressed and wanted the comfort of light reading so I reread the first book in my beloved Southern Vampire Mysteries series. I prefer Harris's series much more to Hamilton. They are very differnt style but quotes on the books and in review always seem to compare them.
01/28/07 BURNING CHROME -William Gibson- fiction. sci fi. cyberpunk. Short story collection, Hinterlands really got to me.
01/30/07 LOST GIRLS -Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie- fiction. graphic novel. love. lust. memory. Erotic adventures of Alice (wonderland), Dorthy (oz), and Wendy (neverland). Moore knows what he's doing. This is highly recommended for the not easily sexually offended.
02/05/07 HOW THE UNIVERSE GOT ITS SPOTS: DIARY OF FINITE TIME IN FINITE SPACE -Janna Levin- nonfiction. physics. math. diary. Janna mixes her eveyday life and thoughs with thoes of her physics studies. Explaining why she belives the universe to be finite. Beautifully written but I fear much of the theoretical math was beyond me.
02/08/07 FATHER OF FRANKENSTEIN -Christopher Bram- fiction. monsters. The basis for the movie Gods and Monsters. The fictional story of James Whale's, director of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, mysterious death and the events leading up to it.
02/20/07 MOON CALLED -Patricia Briggs- fiction. fantasy. walkers. werewolves. Coyote shapeshifter mechanic raised by werewolves. I love the way the dominance/submission of wolf nature was such a heavy influence on the story. Thanks Angelo this was a terrific read.
01/25/07 -BLOOD BOUND- Patricia Briggs- fiction. fantasy. walker. werewolves. vampires. demons. The sequel to Moon Called. Coyote girl now has a problem with a demon possesed vampire in town. Briggs writes great character interaction, I get disappointed when the "lets fight the bad guy" part of the story gets in the way, but I'm sure it's necissary for plot flow. I wish there was a third book out in this series.
no time for spellcheck...gotta go.
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| Sunday, February 18th, 2007
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12:32 am - Okami
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finished after 59 hrs.
One of the very best games I've ever played. I'd live in this world if I could.
I have to find the rest of the treasures.
but maybe I'll let her rest for a little bit.
watching:
I love beauty and the beast (1987)!
Linda Hamilton + Ron Perlman. Laura Palmer's dad from twin peaks and jeffrey combs have shown up. George R.R Martin writes for it too!
so sappy.
also recently viewed Jet Li's Fearless, A Zed and two Noughts, The Protector (boo), the science of sleep, the illusionist, tiramisu, why me sweetie?, whisper of the heart, running on karma, the pillow book, lady in the water...
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| Saturday, January 27th, 2007
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4:06 pm - mix cd, red circle.
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After much deliberation over song choices, I've made my first true mix cd. Not a specific theme but a feel. I wanted "ancients" and "yavin's orbit" on the same cd, and songs that made me feel the same way, or similar.. something. They all fit together to me.
Red circle:
1 male or female - louder than silence
2 velvet acid christ - ghost regen (fractured coils)
3 gary numan - ancients
4 recoil - want
5 front242 - 7rain(filter)
6 monstrum sepsis - undressed obloquy
7 android lust - unbeliever
8 decoded feedback - burn europe burn
9 haujobb - violator
10 s : cage - madness
11 yavin 4 - yavin's orbit
12 bjork - joga
I hope I don't later find I forgot something I really wanted placed with these...
and that that is the version of 7rain I wanted.. I have the origin albums for all these tracks.
More colors and shapes to follow...
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| Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
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11:11 pm - book news
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| Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
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9:00 pm - give
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| Monday, December 11th, 2006
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6:21 pm - in reverse a view of saturday through sunday morning
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eight thirty am on a no work day and i'm ready for the day early bedtime last night after hot shower couldn't keep my eyes open even with the tenshi ja nai volume five manga in my hand love triangle gender complications and a small dog it had been long since i took the time to listen to an album with the lyrics open in front of me during the full run of the disc the new system syn and haujobb solutions for a small planet recieved these honors and maybe i honor them my forgeting my punctuation durring the solutions i was leaning over a gigantic heavy illustrated book of the cosmos too big to fit on my lap i paged slowly interplanetary earths techtonics to mars jupiter to the far reaches the birth of stars the galaxies the void the end of them my room was filled with beauty i'm captivated by the images still figuring out what is happening in them finished battlestar galactica part one of season two enjoyed a dinner of spiral macaroni and cheese the shapes are better than original style colors and shapes thats right a drive home a large purchase many gifts and the neverending story for me hardcover color text punch out running around helping a feeling that i'm letting my coworkers down give the news working punch in prepare wake six am
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Now it's Monday evening. I'm so sad that I left my Lego advent calendar at work.
Grrr....
current mood:  mischievous
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| Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
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11:22 pm
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| Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
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9:50 pm - book reports 09/18/06-11/26/06
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09/18/06 ST. LUCY'S HOME FOR GIRLS RAISED BY WOLVES -Karen Russell- fiction. short stories. ghosts. animals. whimsy. The creativity and the writing style is superb, but the stories sometimes end abrubtly. But then again sometimes that's just the way of the short story.
09/22/06 BLACK POWER WAR -Naomi Novik- fantasy. dragons. napolianic wars. Temeraire series book three. In the Ottoman Empire in this one. So far it's my least favorite of the Temeraire books because it felt incomplete as a full story and more of a gap in parts of a story. Like The Empire Striks Back.
09/25/06 THE DREAM THIEF -Shana Abe- fantasy/romance. dragon shapeshifters. Sequel to The Smoke Thief, which had more interesting characters that had more chemistry. Entertaining silly fluff.
09/27/06 LETTER TO A CHRISTIAN NATION -Sam Harris- nonfiction. athiesm. This is amazing small portion is Harris's response to the Christians that gave him negative feedback on his previous book End Of Faith,(which I haven't read YET).
10/03/06 THE FAREWELL CHRONICLES: HOW WE REALLY RESPOND TO DEATH -Anneli Rufus- nonfiction. death. The not publicly acceptible reactions we have to death; happiness, guilt, greed. I wasn't very drawn into it, it didn't feel like she was saying anything astounding. I also haven't experienced much death grieving in my life. But her previous book "Party of One: a Loner's Manifesto" is one of my favorite books.
10/08/06 A MADMAN DREAMS OF TURING MACHINES -Janna Levin- fiction. math. truth. Compares the lives and deaths of Godel and Turing. Some of the math theories were over my head but the prose was so beautiful. This is one of the greatest books I have ever read. ever. And influenced me to buy a biography on Alan Turning.
10/17/06 GRAVE SURPRISE -Charline Harris- mystery. Sequel to Grave Sight. The main character if close to the death site can determine cause of death. The more I read the more I like the main character, (which wasn't much in the begining. I'll read the next one but this is still nowhere near as good as her Southern Vampire Mysteries.
10/20/06 THE DARK -Marianne Curley- ya fiction. time travel. fantasy. Second Guardians of Time Trilogy. My favorite character with blue hair gets to narrate, Arkarian.
10/27/06 THE GOD DELUSION -Richard Dawkins- nonfiction. athiesm. biology. I can't find the words to express how important this book is. Just read it. now.
10/31/06 SEX, DRUGS, AND DNA: SCIENCE'S TABOOS CONFRONTED -Michael Stebbins- nonfiction. science. This book explains alot of things that come up in current events and media that are not properly explained or understood to the general public. Stem cells, cloning, bio terrorism, intelligent design, public education. Ann recommended it to me, now I recommend it to you.
11/01/06 THE ICE DRAGON -George R.R. Martin. children's fiction. dragons. And you thought you'd never be able to read George Martin to a kid. Well you could have but it would have been highly inappropriate.
11/03/06 THE KEY -Marianne Curley- ya fiction. time travel. fantasy. Last book in the Guardians of Time Trilogy. It has a strong conclustion.
11/08/06 SOMETHING FROM THE NIGHTSIDE -Simon R. Green- london. dark fantasy. This first Nightside novel introduces John Taylor who reminds me of Hellblazer, and a little bit of Gaiman's Neverwhere, where there is also "another" London.
11/18/06 THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS -John Connolly- fantasy. england. ww2. fables. A story in a story. Kid in the a fable filled world with interesting versions of Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Roland.
11/19/06 FRAGILE THINGS -Neil Gaiman- fiction. fantasy. poetry. mystery. Short story collection. On of the best shorts was a hybrid of the worlds of Cthulhu and Sherlock Holmes. I think Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors had more gems, but this was good too.
11/20/06 ON LOVE AND DEATH -Patrick Suskind- essay. love. death. Orpheus. Jesus. Author of Perfum's essay on the comparison of love and death. His critiques of Orpheus and the Jesus/Lazarus thing were good.
11/26/06 GUILTY PLEASURES -Laurell K. Hamilton- horror. vampires. hunters. I wanted to read Hamilton's Anita Blake vampire hunter series but I forgot what what happened in book one (this is one that I read years and years ago) so I had to read it again. I felt it was still just OK but has potential so I will read on.
I gotta get back to watching Lexx so this won't be corrected for errors. So there.
"This is the sound of someone losing the plot -
making out that they're okay when they're not."
-Pulp, the fear.
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| Monday, November 6th, 2006
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6:40 pm - voting in Illinois
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Know of any good websites that list the canidates with concise information on them?
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