Book Review: The Groucho Letters

by Josh Hanagarne on March 12, 2010

Groucho Marx

Although my Facebook profile doesn’t reflect it accurately, I’m a fan of quite a few things. I love Winston Churchill’s speeches and Sara Lee’s snack cakes. I like Otter Pops, Dorothy Parker’s essays, crossword puzzles, March Madness, and Nibs.

I can’t get enough of old Soundgarden, playing fingerstyle guitar, personal records in the gym, and conversations with good friends. I love to laugh and there’s nothing so fine as a vanquished foe, although thankfully I don’t have many arch-enemies.

But there may not be anything I like so well as sharp wit. [Read more...]

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The Life Of An OCD Blogger – Guest Post by Hulbert Lee

by Josh Hanagarne on March 11, 2010

By Hulbert Lee

In this exact moment, 99% of me tells me that what I’m about to tell you is false. But 1% of me tells me that what I’m about to tell you is the truth. I hope, by the time you finish reading this, you can accept the latter.

The 99% of me that tells me to stop is the side of me that I know is irrational; but even when I know of this, it is the side that I have given into for most of my life – a side where the fine line between rationality and irrationality, [Read more...]

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Are You Truly Free?

by Josh Hanagarne on March 10, 2010

Earlier this week I received the most powerful, moving guest post I’ve ever read. About 24 hours later, the author decided that they were not comfortable having it published after all.

I was disappointed but I understood. The post was about overcoming a very serious addiction.

And although I won’t be able to publish it, I would like to paraphrase one sentence from the article:

When you cannot control what you do, if your weakness controls you, if you cannot say “no” to a box of cookies or a prescription bottle of pills, then you are not free. You are being lead by something else. [Read more...]

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How To Have Tourette’s Part 17: Getting Better At Getting Worse

March 9, 2010

You there!
I was going to type this today, but the tics wouldn’t let me. So I turned on the recorder, but the audio actually gives some more relevant bearing to today’s topic than the writing would have. The recording has some advice I believe we can both use.
It’s about eight minutes long. I’m pretty noisy [...]

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Earth-Shattering Announcement! 23 Days Until My First Novel!

March 8, 2010

Have you ever seen so many exclamation points!  Have You! !!!!!!  (!!!)
I’m very excited, if you can’t tell. Here’s why:
I’ve written a novel that will (if all goes well with Amazon) be released on April 1, 2010. This will also be a great way for us all to celebrate World’s Strongest Librarian’s one year birthday.
The [...]

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