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The Fighting Shy: October 2014
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Notes of a Recovering Misanthrope. Friday, October 17, 2014. Know your facts, then distort 'em as you please. Random notes on Bill Bryson. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Know your facts, then distort em as you please. Watermark template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Fighting Shy: June 2013
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Notes of a Recovering Misanthrope. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Manly Men Doping Around. I like Jack London. I really do. But sometimes you gotta wish he paid closer attention to what he was doing. We meet him after the narrator, a literary critic named Humphrey, falls off a ferry and gets rescued by him in his seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost. Of course, a man like Wolf Larsen probably wouldn't rescue anyone just to save a life, but he needs a foil, someone to banter with. Humphrey provides that. 8220;Mugr...
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The Fighting Shy: More Tips for Happy Living
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Notes of a Recovering Misanthrope. Sunday, January 25, 2015. More Tips for Happy Living. The Way of the Superior Man, A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire. Debates will never end about what’s right behavior in love. Answers will always be contested, proposals always countered, disagreements always rise. But it always helps if when you fight you sound like a new-age troubadour. 8220;The feminine is the force of life. The more masculine a man is, the more his ...
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The Fighting Shy: Fragment From a Voyage
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Notes of a Recovering Misanthrope. Monday, July 13, 2015. Fragment From a Voyage. 8220;Are you the big white sailboat a couple hundred yards out? 8221; he said. The relief was already coming into his voice. “Thank god.”. Our inflatable boat was speeding shoreward. 8220;Are you able to bring the others aboard from the beach? 8221; the Coast Guard asked. 8220;Are you able to carry out these operations without risk to yourself or your vessel? Exy Johnson at Santa Cruz Island. View my complete profile.
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The Fighting Shy: March 2015
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Notes of a Recovering Misanthrope. Tuesday, March 10, 2015. The Fighting Shy Rules of Stuff. The acquisition of stuff must be monitored with vigilance, and whenever possible avoided. It is perfectly acceptable, and better than acceptable, to diminish your load of stuff periodically. It, has come to be imagined as the enjoyment itself. Yet, with very few exceptions, the enjoyment of new acquisition soon wears off, and the soul returns to the humdrum quotidian. The price of an object seldom includes—...
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The Fighting Shy: Know your facts, then distort 'em as you please
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Notes of a Recovering Misanthrope. Friday, October 17, 2014. Know your facts, then distort 'em as you please. Random notes on Bill Bryson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Know your facts, then distort em as you please. Watermark template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Fighting Shy: April 2015
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Notes of a Recovering Misanthrope. Saturday, April 11, 2015. I've really suffered no lingering effects from being a drummer. You'll have to talk louder if you expect me to hear you. I was saying I've suffered no lingering effects from being a drummer most of my natural life - though it's pretty weird seeing "drummer" and "natural life" there in the same sentence like that. You folks who have some connection to drummers, such as a parent-child or other professional relationship, know what I mean. There is...
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The Fighting Shy: January 2013
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Notes of a Recovering Misanthrope. Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Now it’s true the place looks the part- both exactly as you’d expect and startling. But a great deal remains unexplained. Perfect example: Diamond Jim, manning the Visitor Center desk most days of the week, came here after a double homicide next door in Stockton California persuaded him it was time to leave. Ditto Terry down at the Silver Queen Hotel, who also came from California but without a double murder for persuasion. It is this dumb w...
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The Fighting Shy: September 2014
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Notes of a Recovering Misanthrope. Thursday, September 25, 2014. And Those Who Study History Are Doomed to Misconstrue It. H ow Should We Live? Great Ideas from the Past for Everyday Life. Lifestyle philosophers—god forgive my language—lifestyle philosophers go beyond your typical self-help fare—remain positive, work and play well with others, exercise frequently—to question why we might wish to follow this advice—to ask, indeed, if it be the best advice after all. To name a few:. 8220;We ought to spend ...
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The Fighting Shy: The Drumming Life
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Notes of a Recovering Misanthrope. Saturday, April 11, 2015. I've really suffered no lingering effects from being a drummer. You'll have to talk louder if you expect me to hear you. I was saying I've suffered no lingering effects from being a drummer most of my natural life - though it's pretty weird seeing "drummer" and "natural life" there in the same sentence like that. You folks who have some connection to drummers, such as a parent-child or other professional relationship, know what I mean. There is...
