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Monthly Archives: May 2007

back to the new routine

by Rob Friesel

As I already noted, we’re back from our vacation. It was a good trip, relaxing. Despite the lost baggage incident, it went as excellently as a vacation could. A couple hours at the beach each day, mostly sunny, no sunburns, visits to historic Civil War era sites (I could feel my interest re-kindling). Didn’t feel […]

writing reflections

by Rob Friesel

I decided to take Creighton’s advice and do something completely different.  I thought about my NaNoWriMo success(es) and what worked there and how much fun I had working on that project.  He was right that part of the reason for that success was that I wasn’t invested in that piece in the same way that […]

dream.20070518(2): out of place

by Rob Friesel

I am returning to St. Mary’s for one last semester.  My room assignment is a single but when I arrive, it’s entirely too large.  Almost three times the size that I expect.  And there are closets along every interior wall.  And all of my stuff is already here; my belongings are disorganized and stacked strangely […]

dream.20070518(1): folk hero’s blues

by Rob Friesel

Sitting in a local bar, the lights dim and mostly neon ad lights reflected in the mirrors and other shiny surfaces. Samuel L. Jackson tends bar while the natives are telling stories about … me? They’re laudatory and embarrassing and patently untrue. These stories are not necessarily lies but they’re blowing these events out of […]

great literal fidelity

by Rob Friesel

Thinking thoughts (from a self-inflicted homework assignment): We have come all the way from attempts at great literal fidelity to the author’s style, to high-level translations of flavor. Now if this happens already in the first sentence, can you imagine how it must go on in the rest of the book? What about the point […]

beach reading

by Rob Friesel

Reading list for the week while we’re laid up, kickin’ it on the beach? Christopher Moore’s A Dirty Job. Why? Lamb was incredibly good, Blood-Sucking Fiends was entertaining beach fodder in the past, as was Island of the Sequined Love Nun. Plus, I am sooooo judging this book by its cover. (Who wouldn’t?) Plus, this […]

Tuesday Top Ten

by Rob Friesel

Absentee Ballot Edition! The “That Was So Last Week” Method (Match all where Last Played is in the last 7 days, Play Count is greater than 10, Genre does not contain Mix; Limit to 10 items selected by least recently played.) Matthias ‘Matty’ Heilbronn “Arriba, Abajo” Helmet “Rollo” Blonde Redhead “Melody” Morrissey “Seasick, Yet Still […]