December 2011
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Holiday wisdom from the Richardson household.
Mom: That's just part of raising a child, I guess. There are always going to be things you forget to tell them.
Me: Well, yes, but at the same time, part of growing up is finding out things the hard way.
Mom: I guess. Like I just found out that I need another glass of wine.
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Thoughts on rereading The Hobbit
Ten years later, and it’s still wonderful. I understand complaints about Tolkien’s verbosity in The Lord of the Rings, but anyone who claims that The Hobbit suffers from the same problem either a) hasn’t read it in a long while and is letting their opinion of The Lord of the Rings affect their memory of The Hobbit, or b) is approaching the book with a closed mind based off of...
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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““I’m always last and I don’t like it,” said Bombur....”
– The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Dec 30th
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“I would like it to be clearly understood that this book is not wacky. Only dumb...”
– In the acknowledgments from Terry Pratchett’s Equal Rites. This is off to a good start already.
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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A few words on Dostoevsky's Demons
The style in this one was markedly different from The Brothers Karamazov, but I believe that has just as much to do with the different translators as it does the different books (this was Pevear and Volokhonsky, rather than Garnett). Maybe one day I’ll reread The Brothers Karamazov as translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky, but that will be many years from now. As for Demons, it was a swell...
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Guys. Hey, guys.
If I wanted to wade through a nigh impenetrable sea of reaction pics, I would just go to 4chan. Calm down.
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 26th
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I have $55 to Barnes & Noble...
..and am awful at making decisions.
Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
“There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one—on the part of the...”
– Mark Twain (via haereticum)
Dec 23rd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“Personally, if I was doing the art, I would have fought to make the boy not look...”
– Honig on Animal Man’s Cliff Baker and his mullet.
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Hanson to Sell 'MMMHop' Beer →
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Brian Wood: The digital question mark →
brianwood: Everyone I know loves comic shops. Everyone I know who makes comics, especially creator-owned comics, is hurting, financially. EVERYONE is bleeding, its a bad time. So to what extent does digital as a publishing format represent an additional revenue stream, one on top of print sales through…
Dec 6th
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Tomorrow
I will print off everything for my senior seminar portfolio in between classes. I will then scan my butt until I am out of print funds for the semester.
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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