Happiness writes white ~Henri de Montherlant I did not recognize the Caribbean Ocean the first time I saw it. Compared to Lake Michigan as seen from Lake Shore Drive or the Gulf of Mexico viewed from the less than pristine beaches of Port Arthur, Texas, the waters surrounding the coast of Jamaica seemed too vivid, [...]
Entries from May 31st, 2006
The White – Or At Least Very Pale – Chapter From Julie's Story
May 31st, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie's Story
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Urban Skills: Renting A Car
May 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · Aha! Items
OK, not knowing which side the gas tank is on (See Urban Skills: On The Road) has not been my only rental car deficiency. I’ve paid too much, I’ve selected cars so small that we looked like the Joab family on vacation with kids, suitcases, briefcases, and computer bags fighting for space, I’ve attempted to [...]
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Coming Soon: The Next Installment Of The Julie Story
May 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie Showalter
The White – Or At Least Very Pale – Chapter, the next installment of The Julie Story,1 should be posted tomorrow (31 May 2006). _____________________Julie Showalter was the fiercely intelligent, sexy, and loving woman and prize-winning author, with whom I had a outrageously wonderful 20 year marriage that ended with her death in late 1999 [...]
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The Acres Are Always Greener
May 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · Media
There is a new listing on my Blogroll. Over a four day period a couple of weeks ago, the author of View From A Farm House Window ranted (her term) about the local equipment store closing early, speculated on the possibility she has developed telekinetic powers, contemporaneously documented the birth of her cat’s six kittens [...]
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Madeleines From … Reading The Last Good Kiss
May 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Madeleines
James Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss1 is, it seems, ubiquitously known as a “hard-boiled detective novel”2 written in the style of Raymond Chandler. It has provoked an impressively wide variety of reviews that range from “best detective novel ever written” to “overrated stoner noir,” but has been championed and beloved by many other crime authors, [...]
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Urban Skills: Locating The Gas Cap From Inside The Car
May 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Aha! Items
[Updated: Heck Of A Guy Blog Updates ] Every year on vacation, I rent a car. Every year, I forget to check the location of the gas cap. Every year, I vainly attempt to glimpse said gas cap in the side view mirror while I’m driving, utter vile curses when I inevitably fail to see [...]
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A Christian Education: A Short Story By Julie Showalter
May 27th, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie's Published
Julie’s1 short story, A Christian Education, is now available. To download a PDF version of Julie’s A Christian Education in manuscript form, right-click on the next link, and choose “Save Target As …” Download: A Christian Education _____________________Julie Showalter was the fiercely intelligent, sexy, and loving woman and prize-winning author with whom I had a [...]
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The Squid, The Sequel, The Squalor
May 26th, 2006 · Comments Off · Aha! Items, Bagatelles
No, it’s still not that squid. Nor is it this squid, featured in the Heck Of A Guy Blog of 5/4/2006. It’s this squid This is, of course, the iSi K8611 Silicone Squid Brush and Baster, a nifty combo tool that sucks up pan juices or marinade and then brushes that potion onto the cooking [...]
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DrGuy Rechristened DrHGuy
May 25th, 2006 · Comments Off · HOAG Site, Self-Referential
Your self is a reaction to environment, a process in the central nervous system that knows by heart the name given to it. The real name for each of us is No One. The self with a name is a story of commitment and a condition of social interaction Juhani Syrjä Groucho is not my [...]
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The Do It Yourself Blog License Agreement
May 24th, 2006 · Comments Off · Aha! Items
Those of you who produce your own blogs or participated in the recent Do It Yourself Heck Of A Guy Post exercise may appreciate the desire to protect your literary treasures from those copyright-breaking, file-sharing, counterfeiting, food-off-our-table-stealing pirates, thieves, scoundrels, and miscreants, who would rob not only us and our heirs of our rightful rewards [...]
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