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29 June 2010
The Minnesota Trip (2010)
Eugene and I will be canoeing in Minnesota early July, starting from Boundary Waters Canoe Area Entry Point #57, Magnetic Lake. I haven’t gone canoeing up in the Boundary Waters in a long time, and am really looking forward to it. Below is an image of our route:
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1 April 2010
Roger Ebert is my hero.
Look at this, from his review of The Last Song: “The Last Song” is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the screenplay. Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than [...]
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24 December 2007
Special Feature: The Tired Brain.
After we got home to northern Minnesota, it started to snow. And some 10-14 inches later, I was using a snowblower for the first time in a long while. My mother and father tried to go bowling, and pulling out into the unplowed street, the truck got stuck. We pushed at it, trying to get [...]