David David Katzman
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A Greater Monster
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Death by Zamboni
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The Kickstarter Letters
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Music Review: Shpongle
(Arts & Photography)
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updated Jun 02, 2011 06:43PM
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Live concert: 5/14/11, Congress Theater in Chicago
The Scallion
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updated Jul 21, 2010 05:28PM
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My homage to (and audition for) The Onion
What I learned in Canadia (and Portland), eh?
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:36PM
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a brief summary of what i learned in Canada (and Portland.) Eh.
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I really enjoyed Peter Newman’s The Vagrant trilogy. It was a bizarre, creepy fantasy with a compelling tone. You can check out my review of it here. So turning to his latest series, I had high hopes for Deathless. Overall, it was a decent fantasy no ...more | |
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A useful sanitized version of Buddhism. Buddhism isn't mentioned once in the entire book, that I can recall. Instead the focus is about how the practices of meditation and mindfulness can help with stress reduction and pain relief. Just as in The New ...more |
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An odd book that was very entertaining and energizing at times. It’s an absurd satire of capitalism, racism and environmental collapse. And yet, at other times, the off-the-cuff tone bothered me and came across as having too much fun with some painfu ...more | |
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This is a review of all three books in the War with No Name series: Mort(e), Culdesac and D’Arc. This series is an interesting new spin on Planet of the Apes. It surrounds a war between evolved animals and humans. The greatest foe of the humans, respo ...more |
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A time-travel novel that is based on exploring the “Butterfly Effect” in a mash up with a love story and an epistolary novel. The uniqueness of the premise comes from a contrast between hard sci-fi alien warfare and emotion-laden love poetry. Blood a ...more | |
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With so much stress about the election and the affliction of a racist-fascist-sexist-disgusting-gas-lighting President, I was experiencing tremendous anxiety and found I needed to read a book that was a soothing balm. There are plenty of flaws with A ...more |
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Disclaimer: L.S. asked me to provide an editorial read of this book and provide him a promotional blurb. Second disclaimer: I would not have provided him (or any author) a blurb if I didn't honestly like the work. The Arden is a great, weird read! It ...more |
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Andrea Vernon and the Superhero-Industrial Complex (Andrea Vernon, #2)
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Andrea Vernon and the Superhero-Industrial Complex (Andrea Vernon #2) is another rousing success from Alexander C. Kane. In fact, I enjoyed it even more than Andrea Vernon #1, which I reviewed here. Not only did Kane assuage my political critique of ...more | |
“My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice.”
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“It makes sense that your response to a bad break-up line would be to set someone on fire," I responded. "Fire is magical to us because it embodies the passage of time. We can never grasp time because it is invisible, unreachable and continually slipping from our grasp. Do we live in the present? How can we? The present is infinitesimally small. It can't contain human action. We teeter on the brink between our assumed future...where we will be in moments to come...and our memory of the past...where we think we just were. The present doesn't exist in a comprehensible way. Similarly, fire is something we can neither grasp nor touch, yet it has a clear effect...the decay and collapse of life, the acceleration of entropy. Thus when we stand mesmerized by fire, we are actually mesmerized by our own mortality.”
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“To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!”
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“Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.”
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“If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.”
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“It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”
― Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
― Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

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BRB~~ stalking your shelves.

We do see to have numerous overlapping books but differing opinions. I like that in people. But I like your favorite authors and the fact that you've read oodles of things I need to devour (Warped Passages, At Swim-Two-Birds, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, &c.) even more.



And I've got to read your Canada/Portland writing. I left my heart in Portland.

Which leads me to my point ---> Death by Zamboni


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