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MY STUFF- #4

Posted in Books, MY STUFF, baseball, life, tagged , , , , on February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

(click to enlarge- if you want to)
Okay so last time I featured my Nolan Ryan book that actually is on this very bookshelf…
Now you can see the Nolan Ryan autographed ball and the Mike Scott autographed baseball card.
The concrete cat (serving as a book end) is a relic from my parent’s married years. I have [...]

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MY STUFF- #3

Posted in Books, MY STUFF, awesome, baseball, obsessions, tagged , , , , , on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This is obviously Nolan Ryan’s autobiography-
How amazing is the cover?!?! The Ryan Express in a tuxedo and a baseball cap.
Nolan Ryan and Mike Scott were my idols during my early childhood (eventually Craig Biggio became one as well)
I have autographs from all three of those but I have only met Craig Biggio…
I am still holding [...]

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Hallelujah

Posted in Books, friendship, random, tagged , , , , , on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Bastian’s mother is now coming in JUNE!
All of that wound up nervousness immediately deflated!
JUBILATION!
(so now his dad is coming here in May and his mom the next month. at least its not during the already stressful holidays)
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Tonight I am going shopping with the D-Train Dannielle -
The only problem with this is that Dannielle is one [...]

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Back to Books

Posted in Books, obsessions, tagged , , , , , , on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Following up on the last book post from yesterday:
I read the Columbus chapter from Lies My Teacher Told Me-
This chapter elaborates on things I already knew about the nonsense being taught as fact about Columbus-
I am not especially fond of what I have read so far-
but I think I will continue the book for now- [...]

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Rant.

Posted in Books, tagged , , , , on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I finished up reading Rant by Chuck Palahniuk this weekend-
Not a complete waste of time however I was largely underwhelmed (yet again… a common theme for me and Palahniuk).
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Predictably grimy. Predictably dark and counter-culture.
Without spoiling the book- I would say that this one is reaching quite far into some science-fictiony elements-
(as Vonnegut did earlier in [...]

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Books!

Posted in Books, Style, obsessions, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I am still currently reading Young and Revolting by C.D. Payne (3rd sequel to Youth In Revolt)
but I bought Rant by Chuck Palahniuk for when I am done with the former.
The last Palahniuk book that I read was Choke- and I was definitely underwhelmed… and put any aspirations I had for reading other books of his [...]

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