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Author Archives: Robert Devereaux
Let the GOP crumble!
Bush approval rate lowest yet and still dropping! It’s nice to see the bastards finally get bitten in the butt, with the slow but steady chew leading toward a thorough discrediting of the Republican Party. Now, ages ago in 1964, … Continue reading
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Lincoln as monster
I have easily a dozen Civil War books going at this point. My primary focus, though, in the coming weeks are David Herbert Donald’s biography of Lincoln and Gore Vidal’s novel about Lincoln. The question at hand–or at my hand, … Continue reading
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Anxiety nonsense
Interesting weekend. My 9-to-5 job as a software programmer is currently in Crunch Mode, with an immovable deadline of a week from today for final delivery of the product. Lots of fingercrossing, puzzlement over why a certain process that used … Continue reading
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Coming up with a title
Book titles is the subject today. My new Civil War anti-war novel in particular as, in the wee hours prior to rising, a few candidates presented themselves. Some novel titles come quickly, as was the case with Deadweight, Walking Wounded, … Continue reading
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Toni Collette, About a Boy
Last night, we viddied About a Boy, a not-too-shabby Hugh Grant flick from 2002. Give that lad a reasonable script, and all his cute, pained-face, blinky-poo wincing can be forgiven and even, in cases, lauded. Such was this one. The … Continue reading
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Please sign Boxer petition re Iraq
She’d like a million signatures. Go here, please. If you’re not from California, there’s another link on that page, just above where the address info goes. Bring our soldiers home! Robert Devereaux
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Eris, Goddess of Discord
I do indeed believe that the way to tie all of my Civil War incidents together–or a principal way I’ll do that (there shall be others)–will be via the Greek Gods, especially Ares the God of War, and Eris, the … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving gratitude
I’m far more an American Buddhist than a monotheist of any stripe, but I can still express gratitude for my many blessings. To whom, you might ask? That presumes a whom. A whom, ahem, it presumes. I prefer the amorphous, … Continue reading
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Tempted and forever falling
Said Samuel Beckett, "Habit is a great deadener," and I’m in the habit of citing those words often. Part truth, part excuse. There are always cookies, candy, nuts, all kinds of carbs and sugar at my non-writing place of work. … Continue reading
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Lincoln again
The Civil War books pile up, my red pen furiously underlining things I can use in the new novel. I’ve been re-viewed the Ken Burns DVDs, and starting in on Gary Gallagher’s course for The Teaching Company. I’ve also had … Continue reading
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