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Essay

Reading fiction

I just finished reading Lord of the Rings, actually making it all the way to the end, for the first time in my life. That I can remember. My dad read it to my sister and I when we were kids, but I was so young I don't remember anything except sitting on the bed, listening to his voice, and carefully paging through his copy of The Atlas of Middle Earth to see the locations of some of the places in the story. But that was about it. I actually made it most of the way through the … (Continued)

Being sick and reading

The last few days have been strange. I've never caught a sore throat in the middle of summer before, so yesterday afternoon when I noticed my throat was scratchy, I figured I hadn't been drinking enough water. Working at home, I got up from my desk to get some, but drinking it didn't help. A few hours later, a package arrived from Amazon. Becoming Superman, the autobiography of J. Michael Straczynski. Growing up, we weren't a religious family in the traditional sense, but we watched 90s Sci-fi … (Continued)

Unfiltered

Brewing coffee this morning in the French Press and taking care to pour it while trying to keep the sediment in the bottom reminded me of last night, doing exactly the same thing with a Wicked Weed sour beer that Steph and I picked up on our trip to Asheville. And I can't shake the feeling that there's something connecting these two things. It would be easy to find beer or coffee that is filtered, that doesn't require this special handling. But, in my opinion, it's settling for less. Now, do … (Continued)