December 2010
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102 fever + Dexter… awesome dreams potentially coming.
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The scathing review of Bush's 'Decision Points' is... →
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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us...
– Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
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Sasha: You look tired.
Hank: Yeah, it's been a long... life.
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Me: Have a good break. Happy Kwanzaa!
Student: Umm... I'm not Jewish.
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And now the 2010 albums which most frequented my playlists:
The Black Keys, Brothers
Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More
Band of Horses, Infinite Arms
Broken Bells, Broken Bells
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beat The Devils Tattoo
Spoon, Transference
Kings Of Leon, Come Around Sundown
Brandon Flowers, Flamingo
We Are Scientists, Barbara
The National, High Violet
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The year is coming to and end - and thanks to the likes of teaching, graduate school, and coaching basketball, never before have I read so few books over the course of one. Still, I read plenty that was great and here were my favorites from the year:
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
A Piece of My Heart by Richard Ford
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Stranger by...
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You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
– Ricky Gervais, Why I’m An Atheist
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If mum had lied to me about God, had she also lied to me about Santa? Yes, of...
– Ricky Gervais, Why I’m An Atheist
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I don’t believe in a god, because one slice of muenster cheese has 20% of the saturated fat daily value. No god would be such a dick to make something so delicious so bad for me.
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Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them...
– Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy...
– Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy (1871)
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What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1888)
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Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.
– Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale
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I am rather difficult to annoy, but when speaking to me, calling me “bud” or “buddy” is a quick way to get under my skin.
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Movie Music: 20 Great Pieces →
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8 Movie Characters Who Are Cooler than Your Man →
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