Monday, December 30, 2013

Prohibition Era of Upper Midwest

Places
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St. Paul, MN

Lake Geneva, WI

Little Bohemia, WI

Wabasha Cave



People
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Police Chief John Connor

Dapper Dan Hogan

Baby Face Nelson

Barker Family Gang

John Dillinger

Creepy Carver

FBI

J Edgar Hoover

Monday, November 25, 2013

The Artie Lange Addiction Saga

The Artie Lange Addiction Saga, the complete run from the Howard Stern Show.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/bbzw1g2ik6t5sww/Artie+Lange+Addiction+Saga+-+64kbps+-+Chapter+6+%5BWDM%5D.mp3

Maria Bamford Download

http://comedyalbum.blogspot.com/2012/01/maria-bamford-unwanted-thoughts.html

The "Unwanted Thoughts" album is still available.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Discernment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Discernment

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Discernment is the activity of determining the value and quality of a certain subject or event, particularly the activity of going past the mere perception of something and making detailed judgments about that thing. As a virtue, a discerning individual is considered to possess wisdom, and be of good judgement; especially so with regard to subject matter often overlooked by others.

Christianity

In Christianity, the word may have several meanings. It can be used to describe the process of determining God's desire in a situation or for one's life. In large part, it describes the interior search for an answer to the question of one's vocation, namely, determining whether or not God is calling one to the married life, single life, consecrated life, ordained ministry or any other calling.

Discernment of spirits

For the Discernment of spirits, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discernment_of_Spirits

All Gold Comes from Supernovas

Quality over Quantity

Fun over Slavery

Reality over Idealism

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

BHAKTI ANANDA GOSWAMI Recordings

http://archive.org/search.php?query=bhakti+ananda+goswami+AND+mediatype%3Aaudio

Thirty Something

No wonder my friends in my 30s get married and have kids. Most single Americans in their become boring alcoholic losers or sit at home playing video games.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Cash Only Places

Hot dog vendors

soda machines

food vendor machines

slumlords

some thrift stores

some slummy bars

prostitutes

drug dealers

stripper tips

Oswald Spengler Quote


Oswald Spengler Quote

A thinker is a person whose part it is to symbolize time according to his vision and understanding. He has no choice; he thinks as he has to think. Truth in the long run is to him the picture of the world which was born at his birth. It is that which he does not invent but rather discovers within himself. It is himself over again; his being expressed in words; the meaning of his personality formed into a doctrine which so far as concerns his life is unalterable, because truth and his life are identical. This symbolism is the one essential, the vessel and the expression of human history. The learned philosophical works that arise out of it are superfluous and only serve to swell the bulk of a professional literature.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Marvel Comics Podcast

I do not even read new comic books anymore, let alone old ones.

Well for me, take it for what it is worth, as it is something to listen to at work.

http://marvel.com/podcasts

Friday, July 12, 2013

The Necessity of Atheism

http://archive.org/details/necessityofatheism_1205_librivox



LibriVox recording of The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks.
Read by Wesseling

Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer assumes that it is with regret that the freethinker would remove the crutch that supports the orthodox. And all religious beliefs are "crutches" hindering the free locomotive efforts of an advancing humanity. There are no problems related to human progress and happiness in this age which any theology can solve, and which the teachings of freethought cannot do better and without the aid of encumbrances. (Summary from the preface)

For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.

For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org.

M4B format available

Monday, July 1, 2013

Britannica Great Books

http://contentedreader.com/2012/09/11/taking-notes/

Here are the ones I still need:

#8, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 27, 32, 34, 42, 47 and 48.

Note this is with the 50 volume set, ending with Freud.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Collectors World Magazine Store

I went there today to buy magazine sleeves, 100 for $20.

In addition to a store here in Fargo, he sells his wares online.

http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=collectors_world_inc

Monday, June 17, 2013

My Potential Business Card Place

http://businessprinting.van.fedex.com/value-business-cards.aspx?lid=valuecardspic_DPC_valuecards&GP=6%2f17%2f2013+9%3a34%3a15+PM&GPS=2871791346&GNF=0

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

H.L. Mencken Wikipedia Articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Friedrich_Nietzsche



The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is a book by H. L. Mencken, the first edition in 1907. The book covers both wider and lesser known areas of Friedrich Nietzsche's life and philosophy, notable both for its suggestion of Mencken's still-developing literary talents at the age of 27 and for its impressive detail as a book written in the United States (on only the seventh year of Nietzsche's death) considering the lack of reliable interpretations of Nietzsche in the American sphere of letters at the time; Mencken prepared for writing this book by reading all of Nietzsche's published philosophy, including several works in the original German.[1][2]

Contents

Literary reception

Some of the book's biographical details, despite the best available information at the time, are now known to be false, yet Mencken's examination is accurate, as indeed are his personal translations of Nietzsche (for which one may see his translation of The Antichrist as a salient example); while his own feelings at times—and it would seem quite innocently and unintentionally — "muddy the water" of trying to interpret Nietzsche through Mencken (due to, for example, Mencken's own social Darwinism), his study of Nietzsche is objective on the whole, even allowing for his enthusiasm for Nietzsche.
Due to this broad and close style of examination, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche may very well be where "Nietzsche Studies" earnestly began in America.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Book_of_Prefaces



A Book of Prefaces

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For the book by Alasdair Gray see The Book of Prefaces
A Book of Prefaces is H. L. Mencken's 1917 collection of essays criticizing American culture, authors, and movements. Mencken described the work as "[My] most important book in its effects upon my professional career." In fact, the book was considered vitriolic enough that Mencken's close friend Alfred Knopf was concerned about publishing it because of the massive increase in patriotism during World War I in America.
The book was short, a brief eighty pages divided into four essays. The four subjects included Theodore Dreiser, Joseph Conrad and James Gibbons Huneker.
But perhaps the most important, and certainly the most outspoken essay was entitled "Puritanism as a Literary Force," during which he alleged that William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain were victims of the Puritan spirit.
"The Puritan's utter lack of aesthetic sense, his distrust of all romantic emotion, his unmatchable intolerance of opposition, his unbreakable belief in his own bleak and narrow views, his savage cruelty of attack, his lust for relentless and barbarous persecution-- these things have put an almost unbearable burden up on the exchange of ideas in the United States."
Mencken had criticized Puritanism for many years, famously characterizing it as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy," but through World War I his criticism became increasingly outspoken, in part due to the rising tide of Prohibition.
Mencken's book triggered the imagination of a famous American author. As a teen first entering the world of reading and books in the early 1920s, Richard Wright found literary inspiration in A Book of Prefaces.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Language



The American Language

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1921 title page
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States.
Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore. In 1902, Mencken remarked on the "queer words which go into the making of 'United States.'" The book was preceded by several columns in The Evening Sun. Mencken eventually asked "Why doesn't some painstaking pundit attempt a grammar of the American language... English, that is, as spoken by the great masses of the plain people of this fair land?"
In the tradition of Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary, Mencken wanted to defend "Americanisms" against a steady stream of English critics, who usually isolated Americanisms as borderline barbarous perversions of the mother tongue. Mencken assaulted the prescriptive grammar of these critics and American "schoolmarms", arguing, like Samuel Johnson in the preface to his dictionary, that language evolves independently of textbooks.
The book discusses the beginnings of "American" variations from "English", the spread of these variations, American names and slang over the course of its 374 pages. According to Mencken, American English was more colorful, vivid, and creative than its British counterpart.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

World History Trivia Sites

http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/history/world_history.html

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=basic-world-history-quiz

http://www.sporcle.com/games/tags/worldhistory

http://www.syvum.com/cgi/online/mult.cgi/squizzes/history/leaders_1.tdf?0


Thursday, February 21, 2013

World History Videos

If you are a self education student like me, you will probably enjoy this series of world history short films. These will provide, with other items, a basic grasp of the history of the world.

http://archive.org/details/KhanAcademy_History

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Film Literature for Sale


Barsacq, Leon/Caligari’s Cabinet and Other Grand Illusions/Hardback

Bonds, Ray/Movie Stars/Hardback

Cary, John/Spectacular! The Story of Epic Films/Lg. binding

Deutsch, Didier C./Soundtracks The Essential Album Guide to Film, Television and Stage Music/Lg. Paperback

Ebert, Roger/Questions for the Movie Answer Man

Fonoroff, Paul/At the Hong Kong Movies/Lg. Paperback

Gow, Gordon/Suspense in the Cinema/paperback

Kay, Dorman Eddie/Box Office Champs/Hardback

Loos, Anita/Cast of Thousands/Hardback

Pinewood Studios/Moviography/Booklet

Wood, Bergman/Ingmar Bergman/Hardback

History of Mankind Literature for Sale


Adams, Richard E.W./Prehistoric Mesoamerica/Hardback

Agel, Jerome and Gerberg, Mort/Twelve Documents That Shaped th World/LrgPbck

Churchill, Winston/History of the English Speaking Peoples Volumes 1-4/Hardback

Churchill, Winston S./The Second World War Vols: The Gathering Storm, The Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate and Triumph and Tragedy

Durant Will/The Story of Civilization Vol. VI The Reformation and Vol. IX The Age of Voltaire/Hardback

Maldondado,-Denis/Manuel/Puerto Rico: A Socio-Historic Interpretation/Hardback

Minipedia/History Makers/Sm. Hardback

Moore, John Norton/The Secret War in Central America/Hardback

Morrison, James W./Zhirinovskiy: Russian Ultra-Nationalist/Paperback

Raleigh, John Henry/History and the Individual/Hardback

Wells, H.G./The Outline of History Vol. I and II/Hardback

Wells, H.G./The Outline of History/Hardback

Human Life Literature for Sale


Bechtel, Stefan/The Practical Encyclopedia of Sex and Health/Hardback

Freud, Sigmund/Civilization and its Discontents/Paperback

Freud, Sigmund/Future of an Illusion, The/Paperback

Freud, Sigmund/The Interpretation of Dreams/Hardback

Freud, Sigmund/On Dreams/Paperback

Freud, Sigmund/On the History of Psycho-Analytic Movement/Paperback

Freud/Psychopatologia Zycia Codziennego Marzenia Senne/Lg. Paperback in Polish

Freud, Sigmund/Totem and Taboo/Paperback

Freud, Sigmund/Wstep do Psychoanalizy/Lg. Paperback in Polish Language

Gray, Henry/Gray’s Anatomy/Hardback

Greist, Jefferson & Marks/Anxiety and its Treatment/Paperback

Grosset & Dunlap/Healthy Sex Life, How to Achieve it/Hardback

Jung, C.G./Modern Man in Search of a Soul/Lg. Paperback

Lewis, Norman/Word Power Made Easy/Hardback

Lorayne, Harry/How to Develop a Super-Power Memory/Hardback

Morris, Desmond/Intimate Behaviour/Hardback

Morris, Desmond/The Naked Ape/Hardback

Stratton, Ernest K./Atlas of Regional Dermatology/Hardback

Willy, Vander and Fisher/The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Sex/Hardback

Wolf Medical Publications/Diagnostic Picture Tests in Clinical Medicine/Paperback

Year Book Medical Publishers, Inc/Photo Dx/Paperback

Human Society Literature for Sale


Beier and Valens/People Reading:How We Control Others, How they Control Us/Paperback

Brands, H.W./Masters of Enterprise/8 CD Set

Brondfield, Jerry/100 Years of Football/Lg. Paperback

Bump, Glen Hale/How to Suceed in Business without Being a Pagan/Paperback

Davidson, Harlan/Urban America in the Modern Age/Lg. Paperback

Fast, Julius/Body Language/Paperback

Fowler, H.W./A Dictionary of Modern English Usage/Hardback

Isay and Abramson/Flophouse Life on the Bowery/Hardback

Machiavelli/Prince, the and Discourses, the/Hardback

Morris, Desmond/The Human Zoo/Hardback

Nierenberg and Calero/How to Read a Person Like a Book/Paperback

Packard, Vance/Waste Makers, The/Paperback

Taubman, Bryna/How to Become an Assertive Woman/Paperback

Tucker, Robert C./Class Struggle, The/Lg. Paperback

Woloch, Nancy/Women and American Experience/Lg. Paperback

Zoch, Paul A./Doomed to Fail: The Built in Defects of American Education/Hardback

Music Literature for Sale


Andy/I’m Johnny and I Don’t Give a Fuck/Zine

Blush, Steven/American Hardcore A Tribal History/Lg.  Paperback

Cometbus, Aaron/Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus/Lg. Paperback

Cometbus, Aaron/In China with Green Day/Zine

Cometbus, Aaron/Issue #53/Zine

Cometbus, Aaron/Mixed Reviews/Paperback

Moynihan, Michael and Soderlind, Didrik/Lords of Chaos/Lg. Paperback

O’ Hara, Craig/The Philosophy of Punk/Lg. Hardback

Scam, Iggy/Scam issues #1-5/Large Fullsize

Weasel, Ben/Punk is a Four-Letter Word/Lg. Paperback

Weiss, Pierro and Taruskin, Richard (Selected and Annotated by)/Music in the Western World/Lg. Paperback

Pulp/Fantasy/Science Fiction Literature for Sale

Asimov, Isaac/Please Explain/Paperback

Asimov, Isaac/Union Club Mysteries, The/Paperback

Colby, C.B./Strangely Enough/Paperback

Edwards, Frank/Flying Saucers-Serious Business/Paperback

King, Stephen/Running Man, The/Paperback

Maugham, W. Somerset/Ashenden/Paperback

Rogo, Scott D./UFO Abductions-True Cases of Alien Kidnappings/Paperback

Saki/Humor, Horror and the Supernatural/Paperback

Shatner, William/Tekwar/Paperback

Strieber, Whitley/Communion A True Story/Paperback

Zicree, Marc Scott/Twilight Zone Companion, The/Lg. Paperback

Classic Literature for Sale

Aesop/Treasury of Aesop’s Fables/Hardback

Alcott, Louisa May/Hospital Sketches/Paperback

Alcott, Louisa May/Little Women/Hardback

Aristophanes/Plays Volumes 1 and 2/Large Paperbacks

Augustine/Confessions/Hardback

Balzac/Droll Stories/Hardback

Balzac, Honore de/Pere Goriot/Hardback

Bierce, Ambrose/Collected Writings of/Large Paperback

Britainnica Great Books/Vol. 12 Lucretius, Epictetus and M. Aurelius; Vol. 37 Fielding and Vol. 45 Lavoisler, Fourier and Faraday/Hardback

Bronte, Charlotte/Jane Eyre/Hardback

Bronte, Charlotte/Wuthering Heights/2 Hardbacks

Bulfinch’s Mythology/Age Fable, Age Chivalry and Legends Charlemagne/Hardback

Cervantes, Miguel de/Don Quixote of the Mancha/Hardback

Conrad, Joseph/Heart of Darkness/Large Paperback

Conrad, Joseph/Outcast of the Islands, An/Paperback

Conrad, Joseph/Conrad Argosy Youth, Heart Darkness, Nger Narcissus, etc/Lrge Hbk

Conrad, Joseph/Selected Works Lord Jim, Heart Darkness, Nostromo , etc./Hardback

Dana Jr., R.H./Two Years Before the Mast/Hardback

Darwin, Charles/Origin of Species/Hardback

Darwin, Charles/Voyage of the Beage/Hardback

Dickens, Charles/David Copperfield/2 Hardbacks

Dickens, Charles/Great Expectations/2 Hardbacks (Reader’s Digest Versions)

Dickens, Charles/Nicholas Nickleby/Hardback

Dickens, Charles/Oliver Twist/Collector’s Hardback

Dickens, Charles/Pickwick Papers, The/Hardback

Dickens, Charles/ Tale of Two Cities, A /Hardback

Dickinson, Emily/Collected Poems of/Hardback

Dostoevsky, Fyodor/Brothers Karamazov/Large Paperback

Dostoevsky, Fyodor/Crime and Punishment Cliff Notes/Pamphlet

Dumas, Alexander/Adventures with my Pets/Hardback

Dumas, Alexander/The Count of Monte Cristo/Hardback

Elliot, T.S./Complete Poems and Plays/Hardback

Euripides/Volume V: Electra, The Phoenician Women and The Bacchae/Large Pprbk

Fielding, Henry/Tom Jones/Paperback and Hardback

Famous Greek Plays/Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes/Hardback

Frost, Robert/Poetry of (Complete 11 Books)/Hardback

Goethe/Faust/Hardback

Goethe/Faust Cliff Notes/Pamphlet

Greek Tragedies Volumes 1 and 3/Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides/Large Paperback

Grene & Lattimore/Greek Tragedies Vol. 2/Lg. Paperback

Hardy, Thomas/Tess of the D’Urbervilles/2 Hardback (1 Readers Digest Version)

Harvard Classics/Plato, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius/Hardback (Harvard Classic)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel/The Scarlet Letter/Hardback

Hemingway, Ernest/Sun Also Rises, The/Hardback and Large Paperback

Homer/Illiad, The/Hardback

Homer/Odyssey/Paperback

Hugo, Victor/The Hunchback of Notre-Dame/Collector’s Hardback and Hardback

Huxley, Aldous/Complete Essays Volume V. 1936-1956/Hardback

Irving, Washington/Rip Van Winkle/Lg. Paperback

James, Henry/Short Stories of/Hardback

Keats, John/Poetical Works of, The/Hardback

Khayyam, Omar/ Rubaiyat, The /Lg. Paperback, Hardback and Hardback

Kipling, Rudyard/Selection of his Stories and Poems, A Vol.1 and 2/Hardback

Lawrence, D.H./Sons and Lovers/Lg. Paperback

Leroux, Gaston/Phantom of the Opera/Hardback

Locke, John/Two Treatises on Government/Hardback

London, Jack/Sea Wolf, The/Hardback

London, Jack/White Fang/Lg. Paperback and Paperback

Mann, Thomsas/Doctor Faustus/Hardback

Marlowe, Christopher/Complete Plays, The/Paperback

Marques, Gabriel Garcia/Love in the Time of Cholera/Large Paperback

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia/News of a Kidnapping/Large Paperback

Melville, Herman/Moby-Dick/Collector’s Hardback

Mill, John Stuart/On Liberty/Lg. Paperback

Milton, John/Paradise Lost and other Poems/Hardback

Montaigne/Selected Essays/Hardback

Nabokov, Vladimir/Lolita/Large Paperback

Orwell, George/Homage to Catalonia/Large Paperback

Plato/The Works of Plato/Hardback

Poe, Edgar, Allan/Edgar Allan Poe Reader/Hardback

Poe, Edgar Allan/Eight Tales of Terror/Paperback

Shakespeare, William/The Sonnets of/Hardback

Shakespeare, William/The Complete Works/Hardback

Shaw, Bernard/Arms and the Man/Paperback

Shelley, Mary/Frankenstein/Large Paperback

Solzhenitsyn, Alexsandr/Gulag Archipelago/Hardback Two Volumes

Steinbeck, John/Grapes of Wraith/Hardback

Steinbeck, John/Short Novels/Hardback

Steinbeck, John/To a God Unknown/Lg. Paperback

Steinbeck, John/Winter of Our Discontent/Hardback

Stevenson, Robert Louis/Master of Ballantrae/Hardback

Stevenson, Robert Louis/Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde; and Various Fables/Hardback

Stoker, Bram/Dracula/Hardback and Mini Hardback

Sun Tzu’s/ Art of War/Pocket-sized Edition and Hardback

Swift, Jonathan/A Modest Proposal and Other Prose/Lg. Paperback

Thackeray, William Makepeace/Vanity Fair/Lg. Paperback

Thoreau, Henry David/Walden/Collector’s Hardback

Tolkien, J.R.R./Fellowship of the Ring/3 Large Paperbacks

Tolkien, J.R.R./Hobbit/Large Paperback

Tolkien, J.R.R./Return of the King/Large Paperback

Tolkien, J.R.R./Tolkien Reader, The /Paperback

Tolkien, J.R.R./Two Towers, The/Hardback and Large Paperback

Tolstoy, Leo/How Much Land Does a Man Need?/Pamphlet

Tolstoy, Leo/Two Old Men/Pamphlet

Tolstoy, Leo/War and Peace/Hardback

Twain, Mark/Complete Short Stories of, The/Hardback

Twain, Mark/A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court/Hardback

Twain, Mark/The Prince and the Pauper & Those Extraordinary Twins/Hardback

Twain, Mark/Gilded Age, The /Hardback

Twain, Mark/Joan of Arc/Lg. Paperback

Twain, Mark/The American Claimant & Pudd’nhead Wilson/Hardback

Twain, Mark/Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc/Hardback

Twain, Mark/Unabridged, The/Hardback

Twain, Mark/War Prayer, The/Hardback

Unknown/Beowulf/Large Paperback

Verne, Jules/Around the World in 80 Days/Hardback

Virgil/Aenid/Hardback

Wells, H.G./Invisible Man, The & Island of Dr. Moreau, The/Hardback

Wilde, Oscar/Importance Being Earnest and Four Plays/Large Pprbck and Paperbck

Branches of Knowledge Literature for Sale

Barnet and Bedau/Critical Thinking Reading and Writing/Lg. Paperback

Bryson, Bill/Short History of Nearly Everything, A/Lg. Paperback

Durant, Will/Story of Philosophy, The/Paperback and Hardback

Emerson, Ralph Waldo/Self-Reliance and Other Essays/Hardback

Fletcher, Joseph/Situation Ethics The New Morality/Lg. Paperback

Franklin, Ben/Wit & Wisdom/Hardback

Huizinga, Johan/Erasmus and the Age of Reformation/Large Paperback

Machiavelli, Niccolo/Prince/Large Paperback

Marx, Karl/Capital/Hardback

McInerny, D.Q./Being Logical/Lg. Paperback

Nietzsche, Friedrich/Portable, Nietzsche, The/Lg. Paperback

Ruby, Lionel/The Art of Making Sense/Hardback

Swokowski/Algebra y Trigonometria con Geometria Analitica/Textbook in Spanish

Thoreau/On Man & Nature/Hardback

Wisnewski, Jeremy J./Family Guy and Philosophy/Large Paperback

Art Literature for Sale

Berger, Terry/Black Fairy Tales/Large Paperback

Bukowski, Charles/Run with the Hunted/Lg. Paperback

Cassady, Marshall/Book of Scenes for Acting Practice/Lg. Paperback

Deutsch, Babette/Poetry Handbook/Lg. Paperback

Goad, Jim/Answer Me! The First Three/Lg. Paperback

Krieger, Murray/The Tragic Vision/Lg. Paperback

Laver, James/Costume & Fashion(Revised, Expanded and Updated Edition)/Lg. Paperback

Minnesota State University Moorhead/Emprise/Lg. Paperback

Mishima, Yukio/Acts of Worship/Hardback

Mishima, Yukio/Decay of the Angel, The/Hardback

Plath, Sylvia/The Bell Jar/Lg. Paperback

Reed, Ishmael/Mumbo Jumbo/Lg. Paperback

Seuphor, Michel/The Sculpture of this Century/Hardback

Steiner, Nancy Hunter/A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath/Hardback

Thompson, Hunter S./Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/Lg. Paperback

Toole Kennedy, John/A Confederacy of Dunces/Lg Paperback

Underworld Amusements (Publisher of Compilation)/Iron Youth Reader Vol. 1 (Eisler, de Sade, Spengler, Devi, LeBon and Galton)/Lg. Paperback

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

1 can of Camelina San Marzano Tomatoes, purried

1/2 tube of Amore Tomato Paste

2 Cloves of garlic (optional)

1/2 tablespoon of salt

3 teaspoons of sugar

teaspoon of black pepper

1/2 tablespoon of rosemary, crushed

tablespoon of basil

1 bayleaf

1/2 teaspoon of crushed red pepper



Add all these ingredients together and simmer on low for 2 hours.




Wednesday, January 23, 2013

controversy

http://archive.org/details/controversy_1011_librivox

My Opening Line at my Part Time Call Center Job

"I would like 2-3 minutes of your time,"

Also it works to use the word "quickly" in the first or second sentence.

Honest with Yourself

Before you can use logic and reasoning with others, you must use it best with yourself.

Dictionaries

Geek, dweeb, spazz and dork show no listings in the Oxford dictionary. You better look in an American dictionary or the online Urban Dictionary.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Word of the Day: Portend

portend

Pronunciation: /pɔːˈtɛnd/
Translate portend | into Spanish
Definition of portend

verb

[with object]
  • be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous) is likely to happen: the eclipses portend some major events

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin portendere, based on pro- 'forth' + tendere 'stretch'



Examples:

The rain portends my crappy day.

His comments portended the plateau feeling shift at work.

I will portend my weekend with drinks at happy hour.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Spices for your kitchen

Allspice

Chillies (variety)

Cayenne Pepper

Chilli Oil (Chinese Cooking)

Cumin

Chilli Paste

Peppercorns

Turmeric

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Asian, Oriental Names List

At my call center job I started a male and female list of Asian names, so I knew the sex of the person I was calling.

Male                                       Female
------                                      --------
Phuc                                      Kimiko

Huong                                     Pooja

Yu                                         Ying-Xoa

                                                Nhuha

The call centers (two next to each other) are closed until new locations are selected (they are no longer sharing a building. This name list will grow once they reopen.