I scored 2 tickets. This goal is within reach!
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February 23, 2006
Made it home!
Well I wasn’t really too sure how it would go, but it all went fine. Neither the rain, nor the traffic was too much to deal with and I wasn’t too winded when I got home. The hills at the end were a challenge but not too much of one. It will be interesting the first day I go for it both going to work and coming home. I think that will be sometime next week. This weekend I’ll try and get in a bit of a conditioning ride down to Seward Park.
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Picking it up today
I bought the Breezer Greenaway. It’s a simple commuter bike, comes with its own generator and lights, fenders, and has a comfortable set up for start and go city riding. This afternoon will be my first commute home. Let’s hope I don’t pass out like I almost did on my test ride. I’m going to ride from the bike shop on Western down to Pioneer Square, take a break and do some work from a cafe, and then ride home early while it is still light out. I’ll post an update from Caffe Zeitgeist.
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February 21, 2006
A story about "Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not"
by Arctic Monkeys
Wow. I’m like a teenage gerard way fan going crazy for these kids from Sheffield. I’m serious thinking of paying $65 to see them play at the Crocodile Cafe next month. While the album has a few weak tracks, it is generally smoking.
Basically, this sucked
by Philip Roth
Philip Roth seems to have thought of two different ways to tell this story. The first has to do with an interesting espionage plot that gets hatched and changes history, involves luminaries of mid century history, and basically is a pretty interesting idea. Roth spins this part of the story out in newsreels and an omniscient narrators voice – and while it makes for the overall thrust of the novel – it is given short shrift. Instead, Roth labors over his other idea which involves the Roth family in Newark and telling the story of President Lindbergh’s defeat of FDR and tilt toward fascism through the eyes of a nine year old boy trying to make sense of his feelings, family, and nation at a time of trial. While this idea of telling the story through young Philip’s eyes has its moments, it also gets incredibly tedious, especially when Roth starts to describe some particularly active part of the story, only to spin back and go on a 5 page diversion before rejoining the action. Did I mention that I thought the storytelling was a mess? I have a hard time that any young novelist would get such a book published, let alone get the sort of praise Roth has reaped. While I was glad I read it, I was even more glad when it was done.
February 17, 2006
February 16, 2006
Why it's taking me forever to finish consuming "The Plot Against America (Vintage International)"
by Philip Roth
I’m slogging through. I’m around page 220 and I do find it pretty tedious. It is disturbing that Roth’s style is actually making me sympathetic toward Sandy and his aunt, and tired of the shrillness of his parents. I’m sure this feeling will cleverly turn against me once the pogrom kicks in.
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