Wednesday, June 28, 2006
my office
Today I decided that I would work for a few hours from the top of the building. It was a hot day so the breeze was doing me some good. Being of the sedentary dot-com start-up variety, taking my shirt off at the pool was as much adventure as I can could handle for the day. Still beats a day at the office though.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
JS Online:Masterful collection taps into the heart of modern man
Another favorable review about my pop's new book.
"Come read some painstaking prose about real people. I promise you won't hate yourself in the morning."
JS Online:Masterful collection taps into the heart of modern man:
Books & Literature | 'All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories' by Lee K. Abbott
Another good review of dad's latest. I like this turn of phrase by the author of the review, John Freeman."In six previous collections, the New Mexico-based writer has stuffed as many semicolons as he could fit into a sentence, strapped them to no-luck narrators and explored what happens when you add a little whiskey. "
Books & Literature | 'All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories' by Lee K. Abbott:
The K Must Stand for King
Here's a nice review of my dad's new book on the Emerging Writer's Network. I especially dig the quotes and the comments from the other visitors. One of them is a former student of my dad's whom I remember as a kid. Good times.Enjoy: Emerging Writers Network: The K Must Stand for King
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
All Things, All at Once
Dad's book arrived in the mail today along with hats from the Memorial (Jack Nicklaus' own course in Columbus) with the title of Dad's book embroidered on the back.
Steph and I, of course, use this as an occasion to act and look goofy.
Friday, June 02, 2006
No question
Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?Harper's: None Dare Call it Stolen
I can remember visiting with family in October, back in Ohio, sitting in the back seat of my folks SUV going up Olentangy River Road in the fall -- the gray and drizzle a welcome respite from the west coast me -- telling mom and dad and my aunt that the election was stolen. "They're liberal. They should know this stuff," I thought to myself. "Why isn't this more widespread news?"
I keep the rolling stone subscription after all these years. Not so much interested in the music anymore. But their political reporting is great. The last bastion of popular leftist ink in the free world. It and Vanity Fair keep me halfway hopeful that America likes its gossip served slightly bitter.
