100th Follower!

I want to welcome and thank my 100th WordPress follower, Alberto Monnar, who started following my blog today. His website/blog can be found at http://albertomonnar.wordpress.com/. He's from Miami, of Cuban descent, and is a young musician. He's got an interesting bio at http://albertomonnar.wordpress.com/biography-2/. For the life of me, I have no idea what possessed him …

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On a Lack of Book Reviews

If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you'll notice I publish a lot of book reviews. Frankly, these are Goodreads reviews I cross post to my blog, but I get a lot of traffic here when I publish book reviews. So you might have noticed I haven't written any in awhile. I wanted to …

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Versatile Blogger Award

I woke up this morning to find that I had been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award. Yep, there is such a thing. My blog buddy Dan Harris did this, so thank you Dan! I wasn't sure what to think of it at first. A come on? A scam? Did they want my bank account …

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An Absurd College Love Life

As I've blogged about recently, a couple of weeks ago, I came across 16 old diaries of mine in an old box. These diaries date from 1984 to 1992 -- mostly my college years. I'm remembering some things I'd forgotten, I'm trying to remember some things I wrote about but have no clue what was …

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The New Internet Writing “Experts”

Well, I guess this will be my first "rant" of my new blog. Maybe not a rant, but instead just a bitching session.... I've just finally got to speak up about a topic I first noticed popping up online here several years ago, and I've seen this topic and this issue and these people I'm …

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