Author Archives: Mike

Apply heat to cook

Posted on 03/21/2011 by Mike

Going to start to apply some heat around here soon, I think…

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Observations from a Series of Snowbound Days

Posted on 02/05/2011 by Mike

We go through a lot of maple syrup All else being equal, my children’s default state is “fighting” Every morning, the fucking city plows another foot of snow onto the apron of my driveway and crushes my will to live Podcasts … Continue reading →

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“I have a dream” at Lincoln Memorial

Posted on 01/17/2011 by Mike

“I have a dream” at Lincoln Memorial, originally uploaded by morrowplanet. The Lincoln Memorial in Washington is one of my three or four favorite places on earth. Watching people, not a few with tears in their eyes, stand on the … Continue reading →

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Sagan again

Posted on 01/15/2011 by Mike

Carl Sagan: What an astonishing thing a book is. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each … Continue reading →

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Slap-Your-Mama Chicken Curry

Posted on 09/08/2010 by Mike

Put the following into a food processor: Half a large onion 5 or 6 or 8 cloves of garlic 1 3-or-4-inch piece of ginger, peeled, roughly chopped 1 tsp ground coriander .5 tsp ground cumin .5 tsp black pepper a few … Continue reading →

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The lesson.

Posted on 05/15/2010 by Mike

It doesn’t matter how old you are. It doesn’t matter what other people tell you. If you can find some courage (in yourself) and some faith (in anything) and some perspective (it’s not that big a deal) and some kindness … Continue reading →

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2009, Wa[i]ved

Posted on 12/22/2009 by Mike
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This video is like a multivitamin for your Sense of Wonder

Posted on 12/21/2009 by Mike

(cross-posted via Posterous)

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Publishing’s suicide

Posted on 12/05/2009 by Mike

Jesse Kornbluth from PW: Book publishing has been trying to commit suicide for all the decades I’ve been writing, and now it’s finally getting some traction on that project. Its latest folly is ironic: one of our most antitechnology businesses … Continue reading →

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Interesting (failed?) experiment in microserialization

Posted on 12/03/2009 by Mike

From Galleycat: Earlier this week, the literary journal Electric Literature launched a “microserialization” experiment by publishing a new story by Rick Moody(pictured) on Twitter–co-publishing the story on other Twitter feeds, including the Vroman’s Books feed. Jacket Copy summarized the frustration … Continue reading →

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