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Archive for January, 2004

I can see why you might not like my site to use the same name as yours, but frankly, I really don’t see much of a conflict. My site is simply a personal site, where I post personal projects, thoughts, reading lists, etc. The fact that I have not once discussed olive oil anywhere on [...]

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Another Everything

On the heels of my recent failure with one nonfiction book with Everything in the title, I’ve now turned to another: The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.
So far, it’s much easier to understand, even if its subject is just as dry. Based on the first hundred pages or so, [...]

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Everything Proved to Be Too Much

If you’ve taken a gander at my reading list during the past few months, you’ll know that I’ve been reading David Foster Wallace’s Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity for quite some time. If you’ve stopped by in the last few days, you’ll have noticed that, though this book has been removed from [...]

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Eggers’ New Novel, Serialized

Thanks to Maud for this news:
As reported several weeks ago, Salon is serializing Dave Eggers’ novel-in-progress, which apparently skewers American politics. The first two episodes are posted. I haven’t read them yet.
I haven’t read it yet either, and I’m not sure when I’ll get around to it (I’m still reeling from my deep disappointment with [...]

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Hot Damn, It’s the Soggy Bottom Boys!

First, Alison Krauss & Union Station: Live is everything you would expect from the first live album from such a fine band. Recorded in Kentucky, the birthplace of Bluegrass, the album alternates slow ballads–featuring Alison Krauss’s distinctive, beautiful voice–with rollicking, foot-stomping, quick-pickin’ bluegrass numbers. It’s a real treat, all the way through the 25-song collection. [...]

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Though I haven’t quite figured out the meaning behind Return of the Reluctant’s brief description of this site (scroll over “Olive Press” in the “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” section of the sidebar), I’m actually considering using it as my new tagline:
gloriously febrile; brian even knits!
If anyone who understands this seeming non sequitur actually interprets it as [...]

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Caption This, Please

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I don’t have the patience or sufficient masochism to listen to Bush for more than a few minutes at a stretch, so I missed most of his blathering last night. Since I rely on blogs to highlight the important points, I was happy to find this snippet posted at Boing Boing:
GW Bush: “Key provisions of [...]

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DeLillo Parody

“Don DeLillo, Stadium Vendor,” over at McSweeney’s (via Maud, Return of the Reluctant):
Hot dogs who wants hot dogs. Hot dogs cloaked in foil wrappers. Who wants. Hot dogs with mustard and relish and sauerkraut and ketchup all steamed and fissured and revealed in a languorous process of unwrapping. You want these hot dogs, America.Cold beer [...]

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Stitchin’ & Bitchin’

In the blog devoted to her new book, Stitch ‘N Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook, Debbie Stoller mentions “Rock-and-Roll Knitters,” an article in this week’s Newsweek:
When Debbie Stoller, the feminist author and cofounder of Bust magazine, became obsessed with knitting in 1999, friends and even strangers responded with disbelief and occasionally disdain. “If I had been [...]

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