Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I need to join a 12-step group for book buyers, I guess. The Mark Twain Library had a huge used book sale today, and their prices were very, very low. One of my new purchases was only 10 cents. Here is what I got:
Footnotes on Nature by John Kiernan. Published in 1947. This was a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I saw from the search terms that someone was looking for the movie that quotes the Emerson line that forms the title of my blog. The movie is Next Stop Wonderland, and is definitely worth seeing. The quote takes on a funny life in the movie, as the main character, Hope Davis (I [...]
Posted in publishing on August 29, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I actually received THREE rejections today! Is that a record? Probably not, but it does sound nicely ink-stained and wretched, doesn’t it? One of them was an e-mail rejection, so I am only metaphorically ink-stained, I guess. I am not just winning the Race of Rejections (tm, all rights reserved, etc.) with Litlove, I am [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Tuesday Night World Championships, 2007 edition, are over–we had the last race of the season tonight. After feeling that my legs were dead for a couple of weeks, I have started to feel that I was getting my late season form back. Sunday’s races worked well for me and my team (we placed at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
My first rejection letter came in the mail today. Actually, it is a card that begins “Dear Author.” It was not my first choice of agencies, and I have braced myself for many letters like this, but it still is a little disappointing to get a rejection. Dorothy said that this makes me a real [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
We got the official word back from the laboratory on Muttboy’s tumor. It is benign, so we don’t have to worry about metastasis, chemotherapy, or anything else along those lines.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
First, another riff on the optimist/pessimist analogy: When John Le Carre looks at a glass, he wonders what powerful entity, government or corporate, controls the glass. He wonders if taking a drink will kill him. He wonders if the glass has been placed there as a provocation or a warning.
The Constant Gardener, published in 2001, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Our local race venue hosted another criterium today. The race was originally scheduled for June, but some permit problems forced a delay. As a result of this delay, and because people are getting tired at the end of the season, the race didn’t have as many participants as races around here usually attract. Still, many [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 25, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Our local library staged its summer book sale today. Dorothy volunteered to help out while I helped by buying a box full of books. At first, as I wandered the haphazardly arranged books, I kept thinking there was nothing I wanted. Then, I thought fifty cents was a small price for a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Thank you to everyone who left comments wishing Muttboy well. Pets (not just dogs, as I neglected to mention!) really are an important part of the family. If you’re interested in reading someone who writes about dogs much better than I can, skip on over here. And, if you’re in a charitable mood, or if [...]
