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September 20, 2006, 10:11 pmTeetering
Evening blogsters:
Looks as though there's a bull-goose storm between here and the Jemez Mountains, maybe moving this way. Cats all came inside without protest before dark because of another, milder one just at dusk.
Finished the re-read of Confessions a few days ago, but as I've spent those days digesting the last half the book, seems clear I'm going to have to spend another read-worth before I can put it back on the shelf. It's sitting over by the bed grinning at me now, wondering how long I'll hold out.
A month, I'm thinking. But meanwhile, I keep picking up the Decameron, My Name is Aram, The Sibyl, and a Nero Wolfe novel, The Golden Spider, turn a few pages, put it down. I think it's some sort of rebound thing, what with my brain having submerged itself too long in the Russeau mixmaster.
Anyway, my gut tells me I want to re-read the Decameron next, but my head refuses for the moment.
Just was over reading justxploring's blog about breakfast cereals, human beans, and parties. Made me ask myself when it was I quit eating breakfast cereal. Hasn't been too terribly long ago, but it's one of those things just seemed to be there one day, gone the next.
Nowadays I just eat corn tortillas for breakfast. Yeah, it's rad lib. Pinko stuff.
Sure sign I'm part of the underground railroad smuggling brown-skinned, non-English speaking conquistadores once-removed, previous owners of this land I live on, back into it, now that it's become sacred.
Used to be nothing but Mexicans living here. Now there's good Amurcans.
Jack
Last Edited: September 20, 2006, 10:14 pm
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My reading tastes are actually fairly promiscuous. I read a lot of history, have read a lot of historical fiction, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Mysteries, you name it (except romances). I've re-read the Hornblower series maybe 15, 20 times over the past 30 years, and the Flashman series almost that many in half the time. Read and re-read the Known Space and Ringworld yarns by Larry Niven a number of times, all the Raymond Chandlers and various other mystery hotshots.
I enjoy it all, occasionally. But at the moment I'm re-reading works that happen to have survived a lot of cullings after Y2K. Just what's on the shelves.
Gracias,
Jack
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When I'm feeling good I brew up some coffee for breakfast. When I'm not feeling good it's a Budweiser (breakfast of champions). I only eat once a day kind of like an animal and usually it's meat (no salads for a while) and it's later in the day. But I used to go crazy over cereal. Good stuff.
Gotta say, your choice of reading materials is a lot more esoteric than mine. I read paperbacks from the bestseller list...Murder, mystery, mayhem, spies, terrorists, techno-thrillers. Can't tell you what the book was about two weeks later or who wrote it but I enjoy them as I read them.
So I guess if the tortillas are rad lib pinko stuff then the chorizo sausage and egg burrito I had this afternoon will put me on the other side of the fence looking in, eh?
Thanks for the blog.
Rick