I’ve always wondered how presidential candidates picked their running mates. Here’s how Obama picked his.
I thought I invented the faux hawk. I guess this photographer gets all the credit. At least I invented TMI.
Most people don’t believe I invented the acronym TMI (too much information). Shun the non believers. Shun! There’s even a television show named after my invention. You [...]
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September 20, 2008
Indignation by Philip Roth
Indignation by Philip Roth is set in the early 50’s with the Korean War waging across the sea and the threat of the draft looming over young men like Marcus Messner, the son of the kosher-buthcher in Newark, New Jersey, who attends the city college across town and plays on the baseball team and works [...]
September 17, 2008
Elsewhere, Perhaps by Amoz Oz
Amoz Oz wrote Elsewhere, Perhaps when he was 27. It was his second novel. Set in the fictional town of Metsudat Ram, an Israeli Kibbutz, in a valley near a disputed border. If the desert heat doesn’t threaten their way of life than the enemies in the mountains do. The people of the kibbutz believe [...]
September 16, 2008
Why You Should Never Write A Political Blog
Ever since I wrote a couple of political blogs last week I’ve had people from Washington reading up on me. And the other day I was driving down the road and I changed into the middle lane and someone in a black sedan three cars behind me changed into the middle lane also. So I [...]
September 9, 2008
Writers, Readers, and Everyone Else 010
Larry Shallenberger has interesting article “When I Become Autistic” over at the BWC. He discusses William Stillman who has Asperger’s Syndrome and is a speaker and author about autism. Stillman says that the autism experience seems much like a paranormal episode. “For Stillman, autism is not a disease needing a cure, but an alternate human [...]
September 8, 2008
For Writers, Readers, and Everyone Else 009
Image Journal has a couple of short-stories that impressed me. Tony Woodlief’s “Name” is about a Vietnamese prisoner of the Khmer Rouge, who is thought to be a spy. The other is Geoff Wyss‘ “Child of God” about a Catholic high school teacher who is upset about the dismissal of a student for being pregnant. [...]
September 6, 2008
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Home by Marilynne Robinson is the same setting from her Pulitzer Prize winning Gilead, but told from a different perspective. This time from John Ames’ good friend the Reverend Boughton’s daughter Glory. A woman who has returned to Gilead, Iowa to take care of her ailing father. Her delinquent older brother Jack soon returns home for the [...]
September 5, 2008
In Search of Bill Clinton and Other Political Heroes
I used to be home-schooled. Which obviously means I attended 4-H meetings (you know, Head, Heart, Hands, Health. Watch this if you’re unfamiliar with 4-H). I was voted vice-president of our little group. And that was the beginning and end of my political career.
I don’t like politics. I don’t like that Christians believe controlling other [...]
September 3, 2008
For Writers, Readers, And Everyone Else 008
• Subtlety in fiction.
• Zondervan’s first novel competition. I wish I had 75,000 words written.
• Writing workshop pet-peeves.
• Why Jodi Picoult writes.
• Oregon Christian Writer’s one day conference at Multnomah is October 18th.
July 25, 2008
For Writers Readers and Everyone — Friday Edition
(from XKCD via TEV)
• Why Mary thinks multitasking is bad for writing and anything else (here).
• “Stories give us resources for thinking and for acting.” Here’s more from the Don Taylor video on how stories shape people. I don’t agree with everything he says, but there are a lot of interesting videos from the upcoming Desiring [...]
