What was begun as an online journal of the books I read evolved...or maybe it devolved...to also feature behind the scenes goings-on at All About Romance from my perspective (mostly based on my personal feelings - okay, it's a personal pity party); topics I've gone over ad nauseum in commentary at AAR, including the nature of reviews and online behavior; and my non-cyber life (including family and items in pop culture that capture my interest, which is just about everything).

Please do not violate my trust. I restricted certain AAR-related and personal entries for a reason...to keep them as private as possible. Now that my blog is read-only, to access restricted entries you must already have a password; if you do, hold onto it so that you can continue to read restricted entries.

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Below you'll find the blogs I visit, broken out in my own odd little system of categories.

February 2006



If further west than Dallas, don't miss it

Sunday, 26 February 2006 7:54 P GMT-05
During dinner tonight we watched a most amazing documentary by Tom Brokaw during Olympic coverage on NBC on Vernon Baker, a black soldier who fought to liberate Italy even as black Americans did not have liberty in his own country.  If you
Category: Entertainment

Beyond a slump...a block

Sunday, 26 February 2006 6:15 P GMT-05
Readers often talk of being in slumps.  I've gone beyond that and would say I am suffering from reader's block.  Since the first of this year I've read maybe three books, and even magazines aren't holding my interest.  It's gotten so b
Category: Reading
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Why South Dakota Sucks

Friday, 24 February 2006 3:59 P GMT-05
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1658865 - not even an exclusion for rape or incest. 
Category: Personal/Political
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An Instant Classic!

Wednesday, 22 February 2006 3:33 P GMT-05
From the February 25th issue of Entertainment Weekly: "The movie I saw is a fractious fiasco: whiplash camera movement set in raging blasts of death metal, a story so incoherent it made me wish I was watching, instead, the collected outtakes
Category: Entertainment
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Voting ends at midnight tomorrow night!

Saturday, 18 February 2006 11:25 A GMT-05
Voting ends at midnight, tomorrow night in AAR's annual reader poll. 
Category: AAR

If It Weren't for Bad Luck...

Friday, 17 February 2006 4:14 P GMT-05
Our daughter has been out sick most of this week, and though her temperature was back to normal by midday yesterday, because her throat still hurt and tomorrow was to have been her portfolio audition for the Richardson Arts Magnet High School, I kept
Category: Personal/Political

I don't make it up...I only report it

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 11:25 A GMT-05
My blog is worth $19,758.90.How much is your blog worth?
Category: Blogging
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Joe Egg

Sunday, 12 February 2006 1:06 P GMT-05
My niece is in town, and over Christmas break she and her dad went to New York.  She had a wonderful time except that she didn't get to see a play on Broadway, so I thought it would be nice to take her to the theatre while she is here.  The
Category: Entertainment

The Olympics

Friday, 10 February 2006 10:04 P GMT-05
Please watch the Olympics in Turin over the next two weeks!  The "interpretive dance" portion of the opening ceremonies just ended and the parade of nations has begun.  A fourth-grade girl sang the Italian national anthem (probabl
Category: Entertainment
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This Year's Ballot Box Stuffing

Sunday, 5 February 2006 12:50 P GMT-05
Will wonders never cease!  One, two, or a  group of people are trying to stuff the ballot box in this year's annual reader poll.  Not a particularly brilliant lot...most of the ballots were sent within a few hours of each other, and in
Category: AAR
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Possible Elimination of a Poll Category

Friday, 3 February 2006 1:02 P GMT-05
Prior to 2000, a series (category) romance was not separated out in our annual reader poll, and in fact, a series romance was a big winner in our first ever poll.  Before the 2000 poll, it was requested that we add a new category so that series
Category: AAR
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