tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65110818236028677742024-03-06T00:08:49.745-05:00nonamedufusnonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11818490858598810629noreply@blogger.comBlogger3049125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-91254412298363526832017-12-16T16:59:00.000-05:002017-12-16T16:59:50.304-05:00My Back Pages - November<div style="text-align: center;">
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I know, I know, I know I should have reported in before now. But sometimes real life just gets in the way. I attempted 5 books in November. I say attempted because I slapped a big DNF (did not finish) on Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. I just can't seem to get into this guy. It's the second or third of his I've given up on,<br />
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Not so the other four, starting with a biography of Stephen Stills called Change Partners. This followed by a hilarious biography of the guy responsible for National Lampoon called A Stupid and Futile Gesture - How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever.<br />
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I ended the month reading yet another biography, this one of the man behind Rolling Stone magazine,. It was called Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine. A fascinating read.<br />
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So last month I hit the magic number 50 I'd imagined for myself back in January. If I roll this month into my yearly total I'm at 54 books. And I still have December to go.<br />
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What are you guys reading this month?nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-64224688314722177632017-10-30T13:52:00.000-04:002017-10-30T13:52:29.352-04:00My Back Pages - October<div style="text-align: center;">
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Well, folks, I read seven (count 'em) seven books in October. One I didn't finish but even at that I hit the magic number 50 I estimated for myself by the end of the year. The six books I successfully waded through were, firstly, What Happened, Hillary Clinton's book on her bid for the Presidency. I''m a bit of a political junkie so I get off on this stuff but still it kinda struck me as one long whine over losing.</div>
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Next up was the excellent Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and Music of Laurel Canyon. Laurel Canyon was the fabled area outside of Los Angeles where many musicians and artists lived. Known as a 60s enclave, the book takes a look at just who lived there over the last 80 years. A fascinating read.</div>
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Next up was Lightfoot, a biography of Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot. He may have been responsible for some iconic folk songs but he was also quite the womanizer and boozer. Enough said.</div>
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Then I read Dan Brown's new tome Origin, the fifth in the Robert Langdon series. Not as good as some of his previous work but an interesting tale that weaves the subject matter of creation versus evolution. Just the subject matter for an atheist like me.</div>
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Then I read a decent mystery by Iris Johansen called the Ugly Duckling before closing out the month with the tenth Nero Wolfe novel (actually 2 novellas) called Not Quite Dead Enough.</div>
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I'll be reading at less of a break-neck pace the rest of the year having reached my anticipated 50 books this month.</div>
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nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-87164616915734374652017-10-21T10:18:00.001-04:002017-10-21T10:18:26.407-04:00Paroxysm Paradox<div style="text-align: center;">
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The weather was unseasonably warm for October. The sun set around 6:30 but the daylight hours were quite enjoyable. So thought Richard, as he set out for his daily walk in the woods. He marvelled at the turning leaves which exhibited an explosion of colour more significant with each passing day.<br />
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But Richard knew the turning leaves would soon start to fall. And the trees would soon be bare with no leaves at all. And then the snow would fly and fall from the trees as the leaves had before it. <br />
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Richard couldn't help but think of the sudden change to come as a seizure of sorts. And he wasn't looking forward to it. After all, who would welcome a seizure, he thought, as he rolled uncontrollably among the leaves.<br />
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<i>This week <b>paroxysm/seizure</b> was the prompt at <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/whole-lot-shaking/">Two Word Tuesday</a>.</i><br />
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The old man down the street was terrible to the children. When the kids frisbee landed on his front lawn he ran out and grabbed it, yelling at them to keep off his grass.<br />
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When the boys baseball landed in his driveway he did the same. Neighbours began to wonder when he'd hold a yard sale to give back his confiscated items.<br />
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The area children avoided his house at Halloween. He didn't display a carved pumpkin and he didn't pass out candy.<br />
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At Christmas his house remained dark with no seasonal lights or decorations.<br />
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Neighbours wondered what was wrong with this guy. They'd never seen anyone so ornery.<br />
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And then one day something happened. A child new to the neighbourhood rang the old man's doorbell and asked if he'd sponsor her in the upcoming walk for charity. He said sure, sponsored her for $10 a kilometre and signed the pledge form as...<br />
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<i>The <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/having-a-bad-day/">Two Word Tuesday</a> prompt was <b>tetchy/ornery</b> this week. Now get outta my face.</i><br />
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Ronald was a lucky lad. When he was four his parents perished in a hot air balloon incident at the Hattiesburg fair. Now wait, that's not the lucky part. Ronald survived the balloon blast because he was on the ground with his Aunt Flo and Uncle Joe Bob. Flo and Joe Bob had no children of their own and so took it upon themselves to raise Ronald as their own. Ronald may have been an only child but he certainly didn't suffer from a lack of love and affection.<br />
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Flo and Joe Bob showered Ronald with love and he felt warm and protected throughout his time with them, Yes, that's right, he only spent a certain amount of time with them. Then they too were gone and Ronald was alone.<br />
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It happened in the summer of 1976. Flo and Joe Bob planned a camping vacation in Canada's Algonquin Park, miles from Hattiesburg. They packed up the Subaru on a Monday morning and headed north. Ronald, in the back seat, could barely contain himself. When they arrived, the campers decided to unpack and then play a little game of hide-and-go-seek. Ronald was it. He leaned against a tree, close his eyes and counted to one hundred.<br />
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And that was the last that Ronald saw of Flo and Joe Bob. He cried their names but it was no good. It looked like he was the only surviving member of their little camping party. Bad enough some years before he had lost his mom and dad to tragedy. Now he had to refer to Joe Bob as his ext-uncle and Flo as his ext-aunt.<br />
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<i>The prompt for <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/category/prompts/two-word-tuesday/">Two Word Tuesday</a> this week is <b>extant/surviving</b>. As ever we've had a little fun with the clues.</i><br />
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nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-59057221451701727422017-09-30T13:45:00.000-04:002017-09-30T13:45:06.966-04:00My Back Pages - September<div style="text-align: center;">
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The five books I read in September raised my yearly count to 44 books - 6 away from my anticipated 50 books by the end of the year. I'm sure I'll make it.</div>
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I started the month out with a new thriller from Michael Connelly called The Late show. It's about a women cop who works the night shift. This is a new character for Connelly who is better known for his Harry Bosch series. Nevertheless this was an enthralling page-turner.</div>
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I then picked up Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles. This is the third and final book in the Natchez Burning trilogy. Somewhere along the line I missed one of these but was nevertheless able to follow the overall gripping story about race relations in the south.</div>
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I then moved on to the Rules of Civility by Amor Towles a coming-of-age tale about a mid-twenties woman in New York in the late 1930s. Having enjoyed his second book A Gentleman in Moscow I felt I had to go back to his first novel. I wasn't disappointed.</div>
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For a change of pace I read Al Franken - Giant of the Senate. Franken's a former comedy writer from Saturday Night Live who decided to go into politics. A left-leaning liberal, and proud of it, he was successfully elected as the Democratic Senator from Minnesota. He's got some wonderful anecdotes from both careers but I found after awhile there was only so much Al Franken I could take. So this was a bit of a meh.</div>
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I managed to squeeze in one more book before the month was out, the ninth in a series of Nero Wolfe detective stories Black Orchids, which was actually two stories in one. My intention is to get through the entire Rex Stout canon although it may take me awhile as there are a total of 40 books.</div>
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In terms of what I've been watching, Ray Donovan is back and so is Designated Survivor. The Good Doctor is a new show that demonstrates promise.</div>
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In terms of music I purchased too much to list here but let me say I really like The War On Drugs new CD and discs from the Secret Sisters and Lilly Hiatt.</div>
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That's it for me this month. What about you?</div>
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Susie had special powers. Or at least she worked at developing them. If she concentrated really hard she could see into the future. This talent was a little off-setting to her friends. But she was determined to perfect this skill. To that end she attended psychic school. It was kind of like high school but without the ladder.<br />
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Susie never missed a class. Well that's because looking ahead she knew when they occurred on her schedule. Miss Clair Voyent was a good teacher. Always held students' attention. So much so you'd want to run out and buy a lottery ticket. And each class began the same with Miss Clair Voyent calling attention.<br />
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Sometimes the students would jokingly respond to Miss Voyent's roll call with the response of 'prescient". Get it? Prescient in Psychic class? Yeah.<br />
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<i>Our prompt for <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/saw-one-coming/">Two Word Tuesday</a> was <b>prescient/psychic</b> this week. Looking ahead to next week I wish I could determine the prompt, but I can't. This week was enough.</i><br />
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nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-80002170987821812572017-09-01T07:00:00.000-04:002017-09-01T07:00:13.141-04:00My Back Pages - August<br />
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I'm slipping. Only four books this month. I've adopted a slower pace in August, at times going several days without reading. Nevertheless those four books bring my year-to-date total to 39 books. I'm sure I can read 11 books over the next four months to reach my projected yearly total of 50.<br />
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So, August. I read two David Baldacci thrillers. Absolute Power about an immoral President. And Total Control about the ability of computers as well as the U.S's finances. Both, early works by Baldacci, were excellent,<br />
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I read Burning Bright by Nick Petrie. At the beginning main character Peter Ash reads like a poor man's Jack Reacher. A loner, former military type who wanders here and there taking on difficult cases. But it was a great page-turner.<br />
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Finally, on the recommendation of Peter at the cottage I read A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. It's about a Russian aristocrat sentenced to life, not in prison, but to the attic of a fancy hotel. The concept here as explained by the main character is if you were expelled from the country you could start a new life as opposed to being a prisoner within your own country where the chance for a new life is nil. The book follows the aristocrat's life and the interactions he has with others. A good read. <br />
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On the television front because I was at the cottage with no TV reception other than Netflix my viewing was limited. When we came to town for a day or two I used On Demand to see the last several shows of Game of Thrones and the beginning of the new season of Ray Donovan.<br />
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And so what have you been reading and watching?<br />
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<a href="http://nonamedufus.blogspot.ca/p/books.html"><b><i>Noname's Books</i></b></a><br />
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<br />nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-48317971626043819302017-08-30T14:13:00.001-04:002017-08-30T14:13:13.560-04:00What's That Smell?<br />
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Bob and Henry were archeologists and were on the verge of the discovery of their lives. On the uninhabited island of StickMyFinger Innit they were about to become the first explorers of a giant cave. Who knew what dangers lurked below. Certainly not Bob and Henry.<br />
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The two archeologists prepared to descend into the earth's core. They loaded their backs with their equipment and set off.<br />
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Almost immediately they were overcome by a powerful smell. It was as if some giant animal had crawled into the cave and died. And the deeper they went the worse the stench became.<br />
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Finally Bob turned to Henry and gasped "I don't know if I can go on Henry. That stench is nearly making me unconscious."<br />
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"Stench?" said Henry. "I thought it was my asthma!"<br />
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<i>The <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/what-is-that-smell/">Two Word Tuesday </a>prompt this week was <b>miasma/stench</b>.</i><br />
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nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-36080878825158864312017-08-26T07:00:00.000-04:002017-08-26T09:42:17.474-04:00To My Amazing Wife on Her Birthday<br />
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No need to be concerned<br />
Like they say<br />
It's only a number<br />
<br />
And while it may sound trite<br />
It's true<br />
You just get better every day<br />
<br />
I am constantly amazed<br />
How such a beautiful, intelligent and poised woman<br />
Can at times be such a little girl<br />
<br />
In those time you are so full of wonder, awe and merriment<br />
Be it bunnies in the backyard<br />
Or a family of your duckling friends in the lake at the cottage<br />
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It's part of your allure<br />
The depth of caring for all things<br />
But wait, there's more<br />
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Your sense of humour knocks me out<br />
And you are never more beautiful<br />
Than when you laugh uncontrollably...usually at your own jokes!<br />
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On the serious side<br />
I have observed the tenderness and care you display<br />
In family relationships<br />
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You are an amazing daughter to your mother<br />
A loving mother to your son<br />
And a caring aunt to your nephew<br />
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Not to mention a devoted wife<br />
Who puts up with my shit<br />
And every day demonstrates her deep love for me<br />
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You have changed me<br />
For the better<br />
Because I've learned to give my love to you, freely, unconditionally, withholding nothing<br />
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I love you, honey, with all of my being<br />
I simply can not see myself<br />
Spending my life with anyone else but you<br />
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And while I don't know<br />
What the heck attracts you to me<br />
I hope I never jeopardize just what it is we have<br />
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Happy, happy birthday my love<br />
And to quote your favourite songwriter: may you stay forever young<br />
You're doing a good job of it so far.nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-58261380237515381852017-08-19T11:57:00.000-04:002017-08-19T11:57:27.568-04:00Ode To Ignorance<br />
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"I can't pronounce it let alone put it in a sentence"<br />
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He went back into his teepee<br />
Where he started to get weepy<br />
So decided to do a rain dance<br />
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<i>This week's<a href="http://ourwriteside.com/dont-cry/"> Two Word Tuesday</a> prompt is <b>lachrymose/weepy</b>. And that dufus is one weird weepy guy, don't you think?</i><br />
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Last week I told you a little story about Convivial, a little girl who made a lot of friends. What I didn't tell you was that she had a little brother named Dack. He had a last name that he didn't like to use: Dick. Dack Dick didn't make many friends. In fact the little boys and girls sniggered at him and his name. That's an interesting word: sniggered. There are many synonyms but I think my favourite is belittle. It really conveys a sense of ridicule which is what the little boys and girls were doing. They were ridiculing poor Dack.<br />
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Now Dack wasn't the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer. Another reason the boys and girls would ridicule him. At school he was an average student, pulling down Bs and the odd C. He was content. His parents were content and his sister Convivial was content.<br />
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One day in English class the teacher hosted a little game of "What's That Mean?". She'd mention a word and the class would have to guess another word that meant the same thing.Like snigger and belittle. Okay, okay, Dack bad example.<br />
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The teacher said '"happy". In the front row Tommy's hand shot up and he said "cheerful". The teacher said "expectant" and again little Tommy's hand shot up and he yelled "breathless", breathlessly. "Okay,Tommy", admonished the teacher. "I think it's time to call on someone else." The teacher said "educational". And again, in spite of the admonishment, little Tommy shot up his hand and yelled "didactic" to which little Dack in the back of the class yelled "You die Tommy, you little fucker." The teacher immediately assigned Dack Dick a detention. Why? She told Dack while he may have expressed the right sentiment he still got the answer wrong.<br />
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<i>The <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/time-for-our-abcs/">Two Word Tuesday</a> prompt was <b>didactic/educational</b> this week. And wasn't it?</i><br />
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<i><br /></i>nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-87777804826018958972017-08-05T10:26:00.000-04:002017-08-05T10:26:26.875-04:00What's In A Name?<br />
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When she was born she was such a little bundle of joy that her mother called her Convivial. And the name stuck. And as she grew older Convivial easily made and amassed friends. In fact, birthday parties became almost unmanageable. It was a good thing she was born in August because her birthday celebrations were moved from the backyard to a nearby park just to contain all the guests.<br />
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School was another matter entirely. There wasn't a lunch table big enough in the cafeteria to contain all her little buddies. And the school bus? They had to lay on several so that her friends could follow her and ensure she got home safely.<br />
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You have never before seen such a sociable child. People would stop her in the street and say to her "My, oh my, you're convivial." To which she'd reply "Why yes I am.' And, thought these people, arrogant as well.<br />
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<i>This week's <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/lets-be-friends/">Two Word Tuesday</a> prompt its <b>convivial/sociable</b>. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be too convivial.</i><br />
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nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-90209234714573752022017-07-31T18:43:00.000-04:002017-07-31T18:58:31.200-04:00My Back Pages - July<br />
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Five books this month. Not bad considering I spent the month lazing at the cottage. It brings my yearly total to 35 books.</div>
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I began the month with Money For Nothing, an interesting history of the music video industry by Saul Austerlitz who takes things back to the Beatles. It must have been a Beatles month because the next book was a history of the influence of black Americans on popular music called How The Beatles Destroyed Rock and Roll. Elijah Wald's premise is the music was never more popular than when it was performed by white artists.</div>
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The next book was Dreaming the Beatles by Rolling Stone columnist Robert Sheffield. In a humorous series of essays Sheffield explains why the Beatles are still important to music and culture nearly 50 years after they broke up. I really enjoyed this one.</div>
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Now don't laugh but get the title of the next book I read. Gimme A Show! 50 Years on th Rock and Rollercoaster: An Unauthorized Biography of James Pankow, Trombonist with Chicago. I don't know why I picked this one up but I dutifully read it right through. Meh. Unless you're a Chicago fan. I'm not not.</div>
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I capped off the month with an excellent spy thriller called I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. This one was over 800 pages but a real page-turner. He's apparently writing a second book in this series. I can't wait.</div>
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My TV watching was pretty limited this month as I spent all my time at the cottage. But I have been catching up on Game of Thrones. And I'm wondering if there'll be a second season of the excellent Handmaid's Tale. Time will tell.<br />
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nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-88096656218882573622017-07-29T15:30:00.000-04:002017-07-29T15:30:11.164-04:00Befuddled Bob<br />
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It was getting worse. The store-bought milk was piling up in the oven. And the fridge was full of toothpaste and shampoo.<br />
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Bob and Betty had lived a long and loving life together. They'd been married for 63 years and then last year Betty died. Breast cancer. But she went quickly and for that Bob was grateful.<br />
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But since Betty's death Bob turned into a different person. He was alone now. Had no one for companionship or to help with the little things and provide for him. He cooked his own meals. When he remembered to do so.<br />
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He had become very forgetful since Betty's death. He'd stopped shaving for example. The children remarked upon it. But of course they had busy lives of their own and didn't have much time to look after their addled father. Think of that song The Cat's In the Cradle" and you'll kind of get the idea.<br />
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And so Bob spent most of his days in a daze, if you'll pardon the pun. And for some reason there was no toothpaste or shampoo in the bathroom.<br />
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<i>This week's <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/it-is-so-confusing/">Two Word Tuesday</a> prompt was <b>addle/daze</b>. </i><br />
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Little Tommy led a charmed life. An only child he had it made. Pretty much anything he wanted, he got. He loved his parents and was thankful for all they did for him.<br />
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So thankful, in fact, that Tommy and his parents went to church every Sunday to thank God for all the good things in their lives. Little Tommy's favourite part of the service was when they sang hymns. Tommy was a good singer for someone so young and he wailed and wailed, his face raised to the ceiling and heaven above.<br />
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Tommy knew his parents were very religious because when they got home from church every Sunday they would retreat to the bedroom to pray. Tommy knew this because every once and awhile he'd hear his mother exclaim "Oh God, oh God, Oh God."<br />
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Left to his own devices, little Tommy would fix himself some breakfast and reflect on his pitch perfect wailing. In fact, he often continued to sing the hymns he had just sung in church. His favourite breakfast was a new cereal called Pocs. It didn't go snap, crackle or pop. It just lay there in the bowl and went BANG. But not only that. The cereal tended to expand in milk so you couldn't eat much more than a spoonful. In fact, you might say "a poc your full."<br />
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Boy I went I long way to fabricate that pun.<br />
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<i>The prompts from <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/that-is-unbelievable/">Two Word Tuesda</a>y this week were <b>apocryphal/fabricted</b>. How'd I do?</i><br />
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Week two of the "great strength of our marriage contest" whereby I spend each week at the cottage Maryse and I have rented while Maryse spends Monday to Thursday in the city working. Don't tell her I said this but I'm lonely. I miss her. And I'm left to my own devices. No not the inflatable doll. I mean I have to do things for myself like wake myself up in the morning, prepare my own meals and so on.<br />
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This morning I was up at 5:30. I prepared breakfast, ate it, did the dishes, had my shower, got dressed and drove the garbage down the road to the dump. All before 9am. And all without having somebody tell me to do it. Pretty amazing, eh?<br />
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There's no cell service here and no network television. I make do with Netflix and You Tube. Catching up on some classic movies. I watched Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction the other night and Spike Jonze's Adaptation with Nicholas Cage the next night. I should have said classic 90s movies.<br />
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My meals are pretty pedestrian. Bacon and eggs for breakfast. Hot dogs for lunch. (Shh.) Some left-over stir fry for dinner. I really miss some of the things Maryse prepares like Capricious Salad. What? Oh, yeah. It's Caprese Salad.<br />
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Sorry. I can be fickle like that.<br />
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<i>The <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/didnt-see-coming/">Two Word Tuesday </a>two word prompt is <b>capricious/fickle</b> this week. No Nilson songs were hurt in the writing of this post.</i><br />
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We gathered in the dark. After an evening of several libations with new friends we boarded the pontoon boat for a short trip across the lake. The only sound, apart from our conversation and laughter, and the low speed chugging of the motor, was the call of several loons.<br />
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It was our first day at the cottage and the rain had finally let up after falling for most of the day. We were lucky. The fireworks began at 10pm sharp. Mayhem would have ensued if the pyrotechnics had have been cancelled.<br />
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I'd never witnessed fireworks on the water before. They exploded noisily in the air but their reflection below was silent.<br />
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For twenty minutes the loons had company as the revellers cheered and clapped and the pontoon drivers sounded their horns. We laughed at the solar-powered boat whose horn bleated like a sheep.<br />
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The manly toots of the rest of the boats responded to its call. Or perhaps derided it. The loons were silent.<br />
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<i>This week's prompt from Tara at Two Word Tuesday is <b>fireworks/mayhem</b>. I hope everyone partied safely over Canada Day and July 4th.</i>nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-79135960440269975402017-06-30T07:30:00.000-04:002017-06-30T07:30:06.273-04:00My Back Pages - June<div style="text-align: center;">
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Six books in June raised my yearly total to 30 as I hit the mid-point of the year. I'd say I'm well on track to hit the 50 I estimated for myself for 2017.</div>
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As ever my reads were an eclectic bunch beginning with a change of pace called The Road to Jonestown about the charismatic Jim Jones and his followers known as the Peoples Temple. This book by Jeff Guinn was somewhat of a disturbing read. Interestingly the man responsible for the event that gave rise to the phrase "don't drink the kool-aid" didn't even use kool-aid as part of his poisonous mixture but some other fruit drink. Who knew?</div>
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My next two books were written by two of my favourite writers Jo Nesbo and Dennis Lehane. Nesbo's 11th instalment in his Harry Hole series The Thirst and Lehane's Since We Fell were both suspenseful reads.</div>
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A friend of mine loaned me 8 or 9 books in June and I started reading actual books as opposed to Kindle books on my iPad.</div>
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So, having had my fill of novels I switched genres and read William Goldman's follow-up to Adventures in the Screen Trade, Which Lie Did I Tell. The guy responsible for such screenplays as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Princess Bride provides some hilarious anecdotes about Hollywood at its worst.</div>
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I followed that up with Rebels on the Backlot, an interesting read about six so-called maverick film directors of the 1990s including Quentin Tarantino and his Hollywood hit Pulp Fiction.</div>
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I closed out the month by switching mediums and read Desperate Networks by Bill Carter about the ups and downs of the television landscape and how some of the most popular TV shows got on the air.</div>
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So as I say it was an eclectic month. In terms of actual TV watching I viewed the re-boot of Twin Peaks and was completely baffled by David Lynch's series based on the original some years back. Otherwise I am currently enjoying the Handmaid's Tale and The Good Fight, the spin-off from The Good Wife.</div>
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nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-69078032740985210642017-06-09T22:12:00.002-04:002017-06-09T22:12:56.461-04:00Tales From The Supermarket<div style="text-align: center;">
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Bob and Brenda worked in the supermarket. They weren't check-out clerks. And they weren't stock-boys. Brenda sure wasn't. And they weren't employees who worked in the fish section or the deli. No. They were on the shelves.<br />
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They hadn't been on the shelves very long but in that short time they'd developed a considerably close friendship.<br />
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The chatted all day when the store was busy and at night when the store was closed. They talked about everything. The talked about what raw products they came from. The talked about their manufacturing processes. And they talked about the long routes in semi-trailers that brought them to this store.<br />
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Oddly enough the one thing they never made clear to one another was just what product each of them was.<br />
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One day when Brenda was commenting on their friendship she told Bob she was grateful for their amity. "Are you Tea?" said Bob, pekoe-ing her way. "I thought I was Tea". You're coffee!"<br />
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<i>This week's Two Word Tuesday clue is <b>amity/friendship</b>. I hope I still have yours after this grinding post.</i><br />
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<i><br /></i>nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-27804073084000583922017-06-02T03:47:00.000-04:002017-06-02T03:49:01.577-04:00Hey, Mister Spaceman<div style="text-align: center;">
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I don't know if you saw this or not but NASA intends to send a spacecraft straight into the sun next year. And President Trump wants to be on board. POTUS considers himself an expert on space which should come as no surprise considering the amount to be found between his ears. Scientists, affected by the Trump cutbacks, are debating whether or not to stroke his ego and tell him he'll be hot stuff, literally.<br />
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Here in Canada the CSA, or Canadian Space Agency (What? we have one), is preparing for a mission of their own. They intend to send Prime Minister Trudeau to the fourth planet from the sun, Mars. As you know speculation abounds as to the possibility of life on Mars. Just ask David Bowie. Oh, too late. Nevertheless Canadian scientists, who still hold their jobs in Canada, are interested in finding a new source of selfies for our PM.<br />
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The CSA originally had its sights, and telescopes, set on the ringed planet, but then changed their minds when they learned the average temperature on this planet was minus 185 degrees celsius - about the same as a Canadian winter. After all, they thought, Saturn in December would have been rather gloomy.<br />
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<i>The prompt for <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/dark-stormy-night/">Two Word Tuesday</a> is <b>saturnine/gloomy</b> this week. Much like the pun in this post.</i><br />
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nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-37172865720385605922017-05-31T20:41:00.002-04:002017-05-31T20:41:47.057-04:00My Back Pages - May<div style="text-align: center;">
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In May I read four books. My yearly total now stands at 23. The Ottawa Senators two playoff series, first with the Rangers and then with the Penguins ate into my reading time as did binge watchIng six seasons of VEEP, one of the funniest series I've ever seen.<br />
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I started out the month with two Rex Stout mysteries, Over My Dead Body followed by Where There's a Will, numbers seven and eight in the Nero Wolfe canon. Satisfying reads as always.<br />
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Then I moved on to Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night by Jason Zinoman. This was an interesting look at Letterman. I never knew the fella had, according to Zinoman, so many insecurities. I always preferred Letterman over Leno so I enjoyed this account and went all the way with five stars.<br />
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I concluded the month with Neil Gaiman's American Gods. I saw the video version was running on Netflix but wanted to read the book before I watched it. I read the 10th anniversary version of the book on Kindle complete with audio excerpts. It was a great read and I gave Gaiman five out of five stars.<br />
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I mentioned VEEP as part of my viewing choices in May. I also kept up to speed with Circus, Madam Secretary, and Billions.<br />
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My wife and I staring watching the fifth season of House of Cards which we simply love.<br />
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And I got into trouble because I watched the first episode of the new Twin Peaks without her. I'm waiting for her availability before I watch the second episode. My momma didn't raise no dummies. Well, except for my middle brother Steve. Happy reading!<br />
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I wasn't going to write a post this week but then I thought that might have provoked a conniption amongst my two or three followers. And if that were to happen I might have had a tantrum.<br />
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<i>This week's prompt from <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/you-cant-make-me/">Two Word Tuesday</a> is <b>conniption/tantrum</b>. Could you tell?</i><br />
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nonamedufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14872118497732941675noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6511081823602867774.post-53162601737585725282017-05-18T22:09:00.000-04:002017-05-18T22:09:11.249-04:00Double Word Score<br />
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Did you ever use the wrong word, thinking it meant something else. Come on now I'm sure I'm not the only one this has happened to.<br />
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But I'm damn good at Scrabble. And I don't even have to check the dictionary. When challenged I just speak confidently in a loud voice "Yeah, that's a word, it means..." It's what I do when playing with my wife, especially, who is Francophone and deigns to play in both official languages.<br />
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See what I just did there? I misused "deigns". I should have said "who forces me to let her create French AND English words". Now just how do I, an Anglophone, challenge those French words. Well I just have to say I love her and I trust her. She wouldn't cheat. Not like me.<br />
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One of the words I've misused up until now is temerity. I used it when I thought someone was timid. I thought temerity meant something like frightened. Who knew? Turns out it means bold or impertinent. A synonym is cheek. No, trust me. I don't even need the dictionary.<br />
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Who knew? Well, actually, I guess the rest of you did. I guess I had the temerity to play Scrabble after my own fashion.<br />
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<i><b>Temerity/cheek</b> were the prompts at <a href="http://ourwriteside.com/how-rude/">Two Word Tuesday </a>this week. Did you guess?</i><br />
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