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Slender Volume: August 2010
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Thursday, August 26, 2010. Like These Girls I Knew in High School. This season, my baseball team, the Cardinals, is killing me. At the beginning of the year, at first blush, there was nothing wrong with this team. They were rolling along, winning and then came the injuries, the abysmal hitting, and one stupid trade and here the Cardinals are now, they just look pathetic. I mean, tonight, Randy Winn was batting fifth. Randy fucking Winn? You know he has never been the playoffs? What was I thinking. Th...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011. So, as I was saying. Let's start this then, eh? I think it's best if I sort of review-as-I-go with the books I'm reading, sort of an out loud marginalia about what I'm thinking about with these books. I don't intend on choosing books for any reason other than that I have them already and that I need to read a hard cover while on the exercise bike because soft covers don't work well. And, well, here's to (another) new beginning. Labels: big sex library.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011. By James Joyce, the first four stories. I'm ashamed, too, but this is the first time I've read Dubliners. What? I've had other things to do. Yeah, the dallying does kind of invoke some schoolboy innocence, wasting away the hours or whatever and it does give the pervert a proper foil and makes him even more striking. Idylls and pastoral stuff, verily, but with, you know, Irish perverts lurking in the fields. Did I miss something? I had to miss something.
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Slender Volume: June 2010
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Sunday, June 27, 2010. Mom said, Oh, you’re so skinny! She poked me on the shoulder and felt the bone protruding through the skin. Feel your shoulder, it’s not that big of a deal. Most people of appropriate weight have their shoulder bones showing like that. Anyway, Mom took it as a sign of malnutrition. Malnutrition is a strong word, but this weekend when I was back in St. Louis, I was fed like a person suffering from not enough food. She said, Do you want this? One weekend isn’t going to hurt you.
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Slender Volume: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball by Will Leitch. Pages 1 to 233. Let's get this out of the way.it's one of those bad memoirs. Here's the lowdown on why it's so damn sweet. It's about baseball, the loving of baseball, the bonds baseball creates betweens friends, fathers and sons, fans and teams and players and everything else. And it features the Cardinals and the Cubs from a decidedly anti-Cub point of view. Hooray for that. People are Cubs fans (I'm looking at...
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Monday, January 31, 2011. Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball by Will Leitch. Pages 1 to 233. Let's get this out of the way.it's one of those bad memoirs. Here's the lowdown on why it's so damn sweet. It's about baseball, the loving of baseball, the bonds baseball creates betweens friends, fathers and sons, fans and teams and players and everything else. And it features the Cardinals and the Cubs from a decidedly anti-Cub point of view. Hooray for that. People are Cubs fans (I'm looking at...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson. Pages 1 to 130 (or so). Hunter Thompson was a goddamn monster. Maybe my current affiliations have colored my interpretations of what I surely once thought was just rebellious and devil-may-care. But, really, this book so far has really peeled the skin back from this guy, and it's not pudding underneath. You do with people like that? See, I'm 130 pages in. He's written Hell's Angel, the Kentucky Derby piece, nearly won that sheriff el...
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Slender Volume: September 2010
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Thursday, September 23, 2010. Taste Sensation: How to Make Rocket Potatoes AKA Failurepie. Begin with an idea, half-conceived in both potential methodology and probable outcome. Approach task confidently as many of your attempts at culinary high seas adventuring have been successful, however opportunities to cook with such abandon are rare and always met contentiously. Dump potatoes into the water. Rinse the habenero peppers, cut off the tops and throw them in the water as well to boil more or less w...
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Slender Volume: July 2010
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Saturday, July 10, 2010. Like Riding a Bike. My parents leaned on me to keep riding the bikes, and apparently I said to them, "You only want me to ride that bike so I can hurt myself." What a nasty thing to say, even for an eight-year-old. When I told them that I had a desire to ride a bike again and intended on buying one, they told me that above line several times. To the guy in the wheelchair and cruise on by. Success! Which reminds me of blogging. I'm unsteady at it, an infrequent user, and at ti...
