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Month: <span>February 2009</span>

Month: February 2009

Shako Complete!

Gasping and limping, I made it to the finish line. This year’s rendition of the literary magazine of The Citadel, The Shako, has gone to print. Insert exhausted faint here. It was down to the wire, though. I had to hustle across campus and flag down a moving minivan to …

A Crazed Week

Perhaps no better statement about the craziness of this week can be made than the simple fact that this moment — 11:42pm on Wednesday — is the first chance I’ve had to sit down and take a breath for many days. Alas, it is only the big gulp of air …

Jay Cutler in Week 2

I’m grading this weekend. In an unrelated matter, it’s time for the NFL Combine. I thus offer you, in lieu of something more interesting, link to this terrific video on NFL.com, which dissects in slow-motion what an astounding throw Jay Cutler made — and what a great route and game-winning …

Works in Progress

Glenn’s recent comment on another thread reminds me that I’m overdue not only in posting new material but also in explaining the state of things on the fiction front. Gate of Hell, the sequel to the completed Shards of Heaven, is in rather fine outline, and I had started writing …

Barenaked Ladies

I love ’em. 😉 Seriously, BNL is one of the great bands these days. I was YouTubin’ the other day and came across dozens of short videos in which Ed, one of the band’s lead singers and guitarists (and co-writer of much of their material), performs songs by his lonesome …