Who Wants a Free Copy of the Four Hour Body?

We’ve got a winner.  Comments closed. I am giving away a copy of The Four Hour Body. I was sent two copies. I don’t want either of them stinking up my shelves. First one to respond in the comments or by email gets it. If nobody responds my next resort will be to pay one [...]

December 19, 2011 READ MORE →

An Author I Wish Everyone Knew About – J.G. Ballard

I first heard J.G. Ballard’s name in connection with the film Crash and its NC-17 rating. Not the super-shrill-racism-is-bad (which of course it is) film Crash. I’m talking about the David Cronenberg film from 1996 which features a peculiar group of people who get turned on by automobile collisions. (Honk honk!) The movie sounded bizarre. [...]

December 19, 2011 READ MORE →

Christopher Hitchens, The Perfect Mile, and Scream at the Librarian: Random Thoughts from the Week

1. Scream at the Librarian Yesterday I was in my favorite bookstore in Salt Lake City, a cramped, musty little shop called Ken Sanders’ Rare Books. I always wind up talking to Ken when I go in. Somehow a discussion of the seven-volume Rising up and Rising Down published by McSweeney’s morphed into a brief [...]

December 16, 2011 READ MORE →

The Worst Way to Ask for a Book Review

This might be the best email I’ve ever received on this blog. It’s a couple of years old at this point. Yeah, I just self-published a book and I realy need to get some good reviews for it. Here’s where you can buy it. (link) And I don’t have a lot of time to do [...]

December 15, 2011 READ MORE →

What are you Proud of in 2011?

It’s been quite a year. I am most proud of these two things: I was able to get more work done in 2011 than in any other year of my life without becoming a deadbeat, neglectful dad. And: I’m still madly in love with my wife. Nothing else matters that much, but since things are [...]

December 14, 2011 READ MORE →

Really, Really Bad Christmas Songs

My yearly disclaimer: I love Christmas music, but there is no getting around the fact that some of it is putrid. I am purposefully not going to look back at last years’ post about the worst Christmas songs, but if you need to brush up, there it is. So, let’s see if anything has changed [...]

December 13, 2011 READ MORE →

Any Swimming Tips for a Thrashing Whale at the West Valley Rec Center?

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working swimming into my strength training sessions. It will surprise absolutely no one who sees me that I am not an elegant gazelle in the pool. Note: I have no ideas if gazelles can swim, but gazelle-like has crept into my thesaurus several times and I [...]

December 12, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: The Five by Robert McCammon

If you head on over to Amazon and take a look at reviews for Robert McCammon’s The Five, you’ll quickly see a refrain: First of all, I’m a big McCammon fan. I loved Swan Song. But– Welcome back. I hope you didn’t pay too much attention to all the fussing over there. I won’t add [...]

December 10, 2011 READ MORE →

My LinkedIn Profile

Just in case any of you stalwarts want to connect on LinkedIn. I like it a lot more than Facebook. Here’s my LinkedIn Profile.

December 10, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: The Affair by Lee Child

In my admittedly biased, Lee-Child-loving opinion, The Affair by Lee Child is as good as any of his other Jack Reacher books, and better than a few. If you have followed the series you have seen Reacher go from being a military policeman to an unemployed drifter, but we never got the story of exactly [...]

December 9, 2011 READ MORE →
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