| Year 3, Book 66 |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|09:23 pm] |
66. Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Although Palahniuk often writes about odd subjects and create outlandish stories I just could not get into this one even though I've enjoyed others in the past. This book is about a porn star who is trying to make one last hurrah by setting the record for having sex with the most men in one sitting, the number being 600. The story is told from the prospective of the woman organizing the event and three of the men involved: a kid who thinks he is the biological son of the porn star who was given up for adoption, the man who fathered the rumored kid also a porn star, and a homosexual man who is trying to his television career back on track by being involved in this record breaking event. I didn't buy it, I didn't care. Not really a good book, but at least a quick read. I give it a 5 out of 10. |
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| Year 3, Book 65 |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|09:12 pm] |
65. Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of Prison by Megan Comfort
This book is based on Comfort's doctoral dissertation. She studied the lives of women whose significant other was imprisoned in San Quentin. She discusses such issues as how the lives of the women are affected in terms of finances and living situation as well as how they too in some respects become part of the prison system having to follow it's not always consistent rules to visit and keep in contact with their partners. She also gives time to such issues as why women choose to stay with men after they go to prison or even begin relationships with men who are already in prison. I found it to be a very interesting book. Parts of it are very filled with theory and references to other studies, so it's not a light reading book. But well worth reading if you're interested in a sociological study of this population. I give it an 8 out of 10. |
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| Year 3, Book 64 |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|09:08 pm] |
64. Resistance by Anita Shreve
This book takes place during WWII in Belgium. An American pilot goes down in his plane while trying to bomb Germany. He is rescued by a group of resisters in the small town where his plane crashes. I found the book pretty boring, and I didn't really see why I was supposed to care about any of the characters. If it hadn't been really short I don't think I would have bothered finishing it. I give it a 3 out of 10. |
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| Year 3, Book 63 |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|09:03 pm] |
63. This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich
This book is really just a compilation of columns and short articles Ehrenreich has written for other publications collected together under topics such as the economy, politics, healthcare, and religion. Although I agree with a lot of her points, I don't agree with everything. But that's okay because it's always nice to get another viewpoint on things. A lot of the essays made me angry about things that have happened and are happening in this country and how we treat many of our citizens. It is not nearly as profound as Nickel and Dimed, but it's a good quick read. It give it 7 out of 10. |
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| Sarah Palin and Librarians |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|08:56 pm] |
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So this has been all over the news at least in libraryland. Sarah Palin apparently had a librarian in Wasilla fired for not agreeing to censor what books were held in the library. Most librarians are of course horrified by these events. You can read the whole story here.
Thus I find it interesting that I have seen more than one reference to Sarah Palin as "a sexy librarian", I guess suggesting that she looks like what people consider the stereotypical sexy librarian to look like.
Because really at this point I don't so much want to be associated with her. I don't agree with her on many issues, and this one really just puts the nail in the coffin.
I was highly amused on Benn Ray from my local bookstore Atomic Books' take on the issue on their blog.
"Why John McCain Will Lose In November
I've been thinking about this all day. I know John McCain will lose in November. How do I know this? Because McCain nominated a woman who tried to fuck with librarians.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you do not fuck with librarians. Ever.
Seriously, they intimidate me more than the mafia." |
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| The Reinvention of the Baltimore Sun |
[Aug. 30th, 2008|10:48 am] |
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Or how the Sun sucks more than it ever has. The Sun used to be a fairly decent paper when I first moved here in 2000. It has gotten worse and worse in the past 8 years. This isn't the first redesign The Sun has gone through since I've been here and each one has made it progressively worse. I was amused reading this letter from the editor last weekend with the introduction of their newest redesign. The text in italics is what the editor had to say and the text in regular type is my interpretation.
10 things to look for in your new paper
It’s a reinvention. We’re redesigning the newspaper from top to bottom, with a clean, four column
layout that provides the look and feel of a newsmagazine.
Because we can no longer call ourselves a real newspaper with real news, we're making sure we don't look like one anymore either.
Consistency
We’ll publish all regular sections in a broadsheet format, including Sports and the Harford, Howard and Anne Arundel zoned editions.
Our previous attempt to redesign the paper didn't work so we're going back to all broadsheets because it's easier to print that way.
New coverage
We’ll increase our coverage of public safety with a new crime blog and column. We’ll offer new columns that explore finding inexpensive restaurants and eating locally grown foods, and we’ll
expand blogs on parenting, books and other topics.
It seems people actually read our blogs so now we'll print them in the paper too in lieu of real reporting. Plus we don't have to pay anyone for the information we find out in the comments of the blogs.
Our new nameplate adds “Baltimore” to recognize an increased commitment to local news, while an updated vignette recognizes The Baltimore Sun’s 171-year legacy.
We realize that our current paper has gotten so bad we're changing the name because it's no longer appropriate to compare the once great Sun to the current Baltimore Sun.
More readable body type
We’re keeping the same font size in our article text, while making it easier to read by increasing
line-spacing more than 10%.
We're trying to use as much page space as possible so it actually looks like our paper is full of content even though it really isn't.
Welcome to the reinvention of The Baltimore Sun. Not The Sun. The Baltimore Sun.
Changing our name after 171 years is no small matter. We did it because this is no small change
to your newspaper, a Baltimore-based news organization that is the definitive source of news and
information for this city and region.
Again we're too ashamed to completely associate the current to paper to it's predecessor.
This is a whole new Baltimore Sun. As you can see, it’s a more visual newspaper for a more visual age. It’s bolder, with more color, more photos and more of our personalities displayed prominently. The design is less cluttered. The content is better organized on clearly labeled pages. All of this was done to make the paper even more accessible and to improve your reading experience.
We're trying to distract you from the fact that there is no longer any news in our "newspaper" with lots of pictures and color. People are easily distracted these days right? Oh and did we mention that there's more photos because we fired all our photographers and are now having our reporters take pictures of their stories with their camera phones.
But the changes are not merely cosmetic. Over the course of this week, we’ll
be introducing some 40 new features to the paper to make it more relevant and useful in your daily lives. The daily paper will consist of three sections — news, sports and features.
Because we no longer have enough staff to write stories for all the sections we used to have like Business and an actual section devoted to Maryland.
We’ve renamed our features section “You,” and we’ll be theming it daily with topics you’ve told us you care about — entertainment, health and fitness, technology,home and garden and others.
We're trying to make you feel special with this new title to again distract you from the fact that our paper no longer contains any actual news and is turning into a print version of Perez Hilton.
We’ve assembled all of our news — state, local, business, and nation and world — into an expanded front section. We’ve converted our daily Sports section from a tabloid to full-sized pages, and we’ve enlivened it with new features. We’ve created a new Sunday section called “Maryland Closeup,” which will explore unique trends, issues and personalities that are having an impact in our state.
Because we no longer have any reporters to cover Maryland on a daily basis we're going to shove all the news into one section on Sunday and try to convince you we're still reporting because that one day a week we actually do report on the news...that is if you can find it among all the new color photos and ads we've added to the paper.
While much about The Baltimore Sun has changed, one thing hasn’t. Maryland’s largest news-gathering team is still passionately committed to a standard of journalistic excellence that has earned the newspaper 15 Pulitzer Prizes and dozens of other national and regional awards in recent years. We strive to provide you with award-winning coverage you can’t find anywhere else.
TIM FRANKLIN EDITOR
The 3 reporters we still have left on staff are committed to journalistic excellence but there's no way only 3 people can put out a decent paper, so this what you're left with. Enjoy! |
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| Year 3, Book 62 |
[Aug. 21st, 2008|06:56 pm] |
42. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Another book of personal essays written by Sedaris. It resembles closely "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim covering stories from his life with Hugh, his travels, his childhood, and living in France. I don't think it was nearly as good as some of his earlier works. A few of the essays provided a small chuckle, but nothing really made me laugh out loud. And some of the essays such as his bizarre essay on Princeton were very misguided. I give it a 5 out of 10. |
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| Year 3, Book 61 |
[Aug. 21st, 2008|06:47 pm] |
41. The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende
Another memoir from Isabel Allende. Her first memoir Paula details her daughter's tragic death from medical mistakes made treating her porphyria. This book is basically written to her daughter telling her of all the things that have happened in the life of her family since her untimely demise. I will admit that I have been somewhat disappointed in many of Allende's recent works. Her first book "The House of the Spirits" is one my all-time favorites. Aside from her non-fiction books I haven't cared much for her recent books, and after reading this book where she describes writing many of the books I think I finally figured out why. Her early books are all based on her experiences growing up in Chile, while the more recent books diverge covering various histories and times in California. I think her Chile based books are full of much richer material, whereas she is drawing too much from research in her newer books and not basing it on personal experience. Just a thought. At any rate I loved this book. It made me have confidence in Allende's writing again. I give it a 9 out of 10. |
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| Petit Louis |
[Aug. 18th, 2008|07:15 pm] |
Last night a bunch of us went out to dinner at Petit Louis for Katie's birthday. I had been there once before and was not that impressed with the food, so I never understood why people were always raving about it. And based on the number of people in there on a Sunday night the love has not died down. Although I totally do not understand why.
I have one thing to say to the chef at Petit Louis--Back away from the salt shaker. Seriously I don't think I have ever had so much salt in my life. It was ridiculous. Almost everything was overly salty. The only things that didn't have too much salt pretty much were my dessert (and I was beginning to worry about that) and the butter, which was actually unsalted. I would have actually liked to have salted butter because I find unsalted butter fairly bland. At any rate they have salt cellars sitting on the table so I'm not sure why they feel the need to oversalt everything in the kitchen.
I didn't order an appetizer for myself, but I had some of the calamari that Viraj ordered. It was hands down the worst fried calamari I have ever eaten. The squid itself was rubbery, it was super greasy, and the breading was soggy. And of course it tasted like it had been dropped in a salt mine before they brought it out to the table.
For my dinner I ordered the steak frites. They did provide a nicer cut of meat than steak frites is authentically served with serving a NY strip instead of the usual hangar steak. The meat was done to my satisfaction, so at least that was good. The rest of the meal was not. The french fries were so salty I could barely stand to eat any of them. I did manage to find some at the bottom of the pile that were bearable. I also ordered a side of haricots verts. Although haricots verts is just the french word for green beans, when that is on the menu they are typically the super skinny French green beans. I love those, which is why I chose to get a side order to go with my meal. Too bad when they came out they were not really haricots verts, but instead just regular old green beans. Oh and guess what they were too salty. Why they put any salt on them at all is beyond me. They should have been served with just a touch of salted butter for flavor, but instead like the french fries they were barely edible.
For dessert I had profertiroles, which if you aren't familiar is a pastry cut in half, filled with ice cream and then topped with chocolate sauce. Mercifully it was not salty at all.
The service was very good, which is a nice change from what I often experience, but that totally doesn't make up for the horrible food. I appreciate good service at restaurants, but I don't go to restaurants merely because they have good service. I go because they have good food, and in my opinion Petit Louis certainly does not. A lot of other people in our party seemed to enjoy their food to a much greater degree than I did, but I figure two not so good meals at one restaurant are enough for me not to go back.
If you want to eat French food in Baltimore, I highly suggest going to Brasserie Tatin instead of Petit Louis. There food is a hundred times better. |
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| Year 3, Book 60 |
[Aug. 17th, 2008|09:20 pm] |
40. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing in Baltimore's Eastern District by Peter Moskos
For the most part this book is exactly what the title says it is. Harvard graduate and sociologist Peter Moskos wanted to study a police department and had problems finding a department willing to let him do it. Baltimore finally agreed as long as he actually became a police officer. So he went through the police academy and became a patrol officer in the Eastern District. He describes his experiences going through both and certain sociological factors about both. For the most part I felt like I pretty much knew most of what he wrote about having watched The Wire and from keeping up with the local news. I still enjoyed it though because I love books about this kind of thing. The only misstep I think was at the end he went into some weird history of prohibition trying to relate it to the current war on drugs. I understood where he was coming from, but I didn't feel like it fit really well with the rest of the book. I give it a 7 out of 10. |
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| Year 3, Book 59 |
[Aug. 17th, 2008|09:10 pm] |
59. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
I read this book because it's the first selection for a book club one of my coworkers is starting that I'm going to be in. The book takes place in China around the 1800's and follows Lily and her laotong (kind of a sworn lifelong friend that is set up by a matchmaker) Snow Flower. I didn't care that much for the writing style and I didn't find the plot overly exciting, but it was interesting to read about China's cultural history during that time period. The chapters discussing the foot binding of the girls was incredibly heartbreaking. It's hard to imagine how something so horrendous came about, and how it became an accepted and revered practice. The worthlessness of women in the is continuously emphasized throughout the book, which is just really sad. So a good book to read if you are interested in Chinese culture and history, but not especially well written in my opinion. I'll be interested to see what other people at the book club have to say about it. I give it a 6 out of 10. |
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| New Bathroom |
[Aug. 17th, 2008|08:45 pm] |
Paul and I are working on remodeling the bathroom. Well we personally aren't doing the remodeling, but we finally have a contractor picked out and are working on picking out the new stuff so they can start work in a few weeks. We're pretty much knocking out a wall between the bathroom and the room on the other side to make a much bigger bathroom. The bathroom now is really tiny and the room on the other side of it is a weird walkthrough room at the moment because at some point someone built another room on the back of the house and you have to walk through this room to get to that room. We never used it for anything other than bookshelves and a futon that no one ever sat on and we have since given away in anticipation of starting the remodel.
So we spent this weekend trying to pick out all the stuff for the bathroom. I was a little frustrated yesterday after we went to Lowe's because I didn't feel like we were getting anywhere. We went to Home Depot today and then back to Lowe's and now have a decent amount of stuff picked out.
We're keeping the clawfoot tub, but removing all the shower components from it and just having it as a tub, and then adding a standup corner shower.
So as of now the stuff we have picked out is:
the new shower
vanity
vanity top (picked out but need to special order)
tile
Stuff we still need to pick out:
New hardware for the tub
Shower hardware (have a couple of ideas)
Sink hardware (have a couple of ideas)
Grout color
Paint color
Vanity light
Recess lights
Toilet
Most of the stuff we have left shouldn't be that hard. The lights and toilet are probably the worst. The toilet because I don't care that much and they all like practically the same and there are a million of them, so it's really hard to make a choice.
We didn't really see any vanity lights we liked at Lowe's or Home Depot so we're going to go to some lighting stores to look at them. We're also going to look elsewhere for the recess lights, although we might wind up getting something from Lowe's. It was just impossible to see them at Lowe's because the fixtures all had lit bulbs in them and you were looking up at them which meant pretty much after about 2 seconds you were blinded and couldn't even see the fixtures. And for some reason Home Depot didn't even have any recessed lights that we could find.
So I think we'll hopefully be able to get the rest of the stuff picked out in the next week or so and get this moving. I'll be really happy when it's all done. |
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| A Rose by any Other Name |
[Aug. 17th, 2008|08:36 pm] |
I can't decide if I want to change my last name after Paul and I get married or not. Unlike Jenny I don't hate my last name and am not marrying Paul merely so I can change it to something easier to spell. Although if I was I certainly picked the right person. Can't get much more innocuous than Paul's last name. I've had my last name for 30 years and it seems weird to have a whole new name.
I don't like hyphenated names, so I'm definitely not doing that. It's all or nothing. If I knew for sure I was going to have kids then I would definitely change it, but since there's a good chance we won't be having any kids that really doesn't matter much.
I like my name and feel weird changing it. Not to mention that it's a big fat pain the butt to change your name on everything. It's going to be annoying enough to have to change my address. But then even though a lot more people are doing it these days it still seems weird to be married and have different last names. People just assume that you have the same name. We're not even married yet and all the correspondence to us from the bathroom contractor has been addressed to Mr. and Mrs. ______ .
I guess I should decide soon though. They're finally getting around to ordering signs for the new building at work and the director called me on Friday to ask what I wanted the sign on office to say. I was like ummm my name, totally confused. Then I finally realized that he was asking since I was getting married. I had to tell him I still had no idea. So they're going to go ahead and go with my current name and order me a new one if need be. I figure I still have all the way up to the wedding to decide so that gives me two more months. Although I don't know what will happen in those two months to help me make up my mind. |
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| Year 3, Book 58 |
[Aug. 11th, 2008|06:54 pm] |
58. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
I had mixed feelings about this book. I must have enjoyed reading it and been engaged in the narrative because it's a fairly long book and I finished it in about 2 days. I just don't know how I feel about the plot. It's terribly depressing. The story basically tells the story of the Mulvaney family and how they unravel after the daughter is raped. Part of me could understand how they ended up how they did, but the half of me just wanted to shake the characters and say snap out of it. So if you don't mind reading a really depressing book, this one was pretty good. I give it a 7 out of 10. |
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| Year 3, Book 57 |
[Aug. 11th, 2008|06:40 pm] |
57. Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas
A highly amusing and somewhat frightening look into life working at a public library. The author fully admits that some of the stories are exaggerated for entertainment purposes, but all of them are based in fact at least. Reading this book made me really glad I work in an academic library and not a public library. I highly recommend it for anyone who works in a library, and even if you don't you'll still probably like it. The only thing that bugged me about the book were these sections inserted in the middle of the chapter giving you factual information about something tangentially related to what the author was talking about. The facts themselves were fine I just didn't care for their placement. I would have preferred them at the ends of the chapters. This may just be a personal preference though. I'm the person who hated to stop and read the little boxes of information set apart in textbooks. I always used to go back and read those after I finished reading the chapter. I always feel like reading them where they're placed upsets the narrative. I give this book an 8 out of 10. |
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| Dangerously Delicious Pies Savory House |
[Aug. 3rd, 2008|05:17 pm] |
Friday night was the monthly librarian's happy hour at The Brewer's Art. After heading down there for a couple hours a contingent of us headed up to the new Dangerously Delicious Pies in Hampden because one of my coworkers' band was playing there. Plus it gave me an excuse to eat pie.
They are obviously still working out the kinks and are not operating at their full level as none of the savory pies listed on the menu were yet available. In addition they were serving stuff off of a table instead of like an actual counter. There were no drinks listed on the menu, although some people that joined our group later got coffee so I guess they just asked. Plus it seemed they had to run in the back to ring up credit cards, which didn't really make sense. I don't know how much of this is due to the fact that they had the band set up, but given that according to their website they're going to have live music a lot of the time I would think they would be a bit more together.
As far as the pie I tried the cherry. It was okay, but definitely not dangerously delicious. I was actually rather disappointed. I've had better pie many other places. I'll definitely go back and try some different kinds, but I must say I was hoping for more. Yesterday we went to a birthday party/bbq for one of my other coworkers and instead of birthday cake there was birthday blueberry pie. (It was a crazy weekend full of librarians and pie). I thought that that pie was better than the pie from Dangerously Delicious Pies.
Other kinds of pie that were tried were
Blueberry
Berger Cookie (I had a bite and found it kind of weird. It was a custard type pie with Berger cookie somehow mixed in or the pie made to seem like a Berger cookie or something. I didn't really care for it)
Peach
Lemon (this was highly recommended)
Everyone else seemed much more in favor of their pie than I was.
Other things I hope get resolved as the kinks get worked out:
A real drink menu
Ice cream for the pie
The option to have your pie warmed up
Also according to their website on Fridays and Saturdays they are supposedly open until midnight, but they definitely seemed to be closing up shop when we were leaving at 10. So I don't know what was up with that.
All that being said I'll definitely go back as I liked the ambiance and assuming it really is going to open later on weekends it will be a nice alternative to going to out to a bar. I mean it's not as if the pie was horrible. It just didn't live up the expectations I had for it based on everything I had heard about their pies. Hopefully I'll like some of the other flavors better. |
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| La Tavola |
[Aug. 3rd, 2008|04:56 pm] |
Last Saturday Paul, Alison, and I wound up at dinner at La Tavola for the first night of restaurant week. We were going to see The Dark Knight at the Landmark Theater in Harbor East, so I figured it would be a good plan to throw in dinner at a nearby restaurant. None of the restaurant week menus at the places in Harbor East appealed to me, so we decided to try out somewhere in Little Italy.
In the several years I have been participating in restaurant week, La Tavola is the first restaurant I've been to that was only serving their restaurant week menu and not their regular menu in addition. This wasn't a problem for us since we were all planning on eating off the restaurant week menu, but I found it interesting.
They started us off with 2 kinds of bread. Both were pretty tasty, but typical for Italian restaurants. For appetizers Paul had a sweet potato soup, I had fried calamari, and Alison had some kind of thing with shrimp and polenta. Paul enjoyed his soup and although Alison didn't say anything that I can remember I think she liked hers as well. It had 6 nice sized shrimp, which I thought was fairly large portion for an appetizer. I was also impressed with amount of calamari I received. The breading was nice and crisp and not too greasy and had a bit of spice to it, which I don't see often but that I really liked. It also had a nice proportion of the rings to the whole tiny little squid, which are my favorite.
For our entrees Paul had the gnocchi with gorgonzola sauce, and Alison decided to split the lamb and the something that I can't remember the name of but was basically really large ravioli stuffed with a spinach/ricotta mixture. We were both trying to decide between the two so decided we would each order one and share. The lamb was leg of lamb cut off the bone and stuffed with egg frittata, spinach, and proscuitto. I thought it was pretty tasty. It was also served with snow peas, mashed potatoes, and mushrooms. The snow peas were good, the mashed potatoes were nothing special so I didn't eat them because I figured I had enough starch between my share of the pasta and the bread, and I didn't care for the marinade that the mushrooms were cooked in so I didn't eat them either. The pasta was pretty good too, which is saying a lot for me since I'm not much of a pasta fan.
There was no choice for dessert. Everyone got the same thing, which was a piece of some type of chocolate cake and small homemade cannoli. Based on the description I didn't think I was going to care for dessert at all because normally I don't like cannolis. I don't care for the shell because they're usually made with cinnamon, which I hate, and I don't like the filling because usually it has chocolate chips, which I'm not a big fan of either. Based on the description of the cake I didn't figure I would like it either because I thought it would be too rich. I was completely wrong on both counts. Both were awesome. The cannoli was not really a regular cannoli. It still had a cream cheese filling, but not with chocolate chips and the shell was not a typical cannoli shell but more like a pizelle or waffle cone put into a cannolli shape. The cake was more like a brownie consistency and it wasn't overly chocolatey. I don't know how to exactly describe the flavor, but it was awesome.
I would definitely go back and try La Tavola on a regular night. |
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| Year 3, Book 56 |
[Aug. 3rd, 2008|04:45 pm] |
56. Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
For anyone who doesn't know KKT is the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and the former lieutenant governor of Maryland. I saw her promoting this book on The Colbert Report. It sounded interesting so I picked it up. It actually wasn't quite what I was expecting based on the title. She spent a lot of time talking about her experience growing up in the Catholic church and how she felt that once upon a time politicians such as her uncle and her father strove to insert the ideals of social justice at that time emphasized in the Catholic church into the government. Now she feels that churches both Catholic and Protestant have moved away from the social justice aspects of their teaching to focus on salvation of the self as well as issues such as homosexuality, abortion, and birth control (for the Catholic church). These latter issues being what is inserted by the religious into the government. She also talks about the history of both Protestant and Catholic churches and how she thinks they got to where they are today. I agreed with enough of what she said that it almost made me sad that I voted against her back in the day. Although I don't necessarily think that religion and politics should be so entwined, if religion is going to play a role in influencing politics I definitely think it should be in regards to social justice matters rather than moral ones. I give the book 7 out of 10. |
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| Year 3, Book 55 |
[Aug. 3rd, 2008|04:37 pm] |
55. After by Marita Golden
This book had been on my to read list for awhile after I saw it at our library one day. I must have been reading other stuff at the time because I didn't pick it up at the time. Then someone else checked it out and didn't return it for so long that it went to lost status, which I discovered after I had a renewed interest in it after seeing the author speak at this year's Maryland Library Association conference. A few weeks ago I noticed it was back on the new books exhibit so I checked it out.
The book is about an African-American police officer in DC who winds up shooting a young man during a traffic stop thinking he was armed when in reality it turns out he was holding a cell phone. The "after" is what happens to him, his family, and his life after this incident occurs. I enjoyed the book and will be looking into Golden's backlist titles as this is her most recent book. I give it a 7 out of 10. |
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| Still Sick |
[Jul. 30th, 2008|10:12 am] |
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Blah! I'm still sick. I stayed home for work yesterday. This morning I thought I was feeling much better, but that turns out not so much to be the case. The prednisone has definitely brought down the inflammation in my throat, so I'm still just a little sore there but not much. I went to the doctor's appointment that I had scheduled on Monday before I wound up going to the urgent care place Monday night. There I discovered that I was still running a small fever when my doctor took my temperature. So I decided I probably wasn't as well as I thought I was. Plus my doctor said that the prednisone could just be masking my symtoms, so he wanted me off that. Particularly because like me he was a little concerned about the dosing the doctor at the urgent care place gave me. So I'm not to take any more of that and to put off my normal dose of Enbrel that I take on Wednesday nights since it's a big old immunosuppressant which will just make it harder for my body to fight off this lovely infection. And then if I'm not feeling better or if I'm feeling worse after a few days I'm supposed to call.
I want to feel better. I really want to go to work. Of course I can't get sick when I'm sitting around twiddling my thumbs. Instead I have to get sick on a week where I'm missing meetings and have a ton of work piling up. Luckily a lot of it is not super time sensitive, but I still would like to be getting it done instead of sitting at home bored. Trust me there is nothing on tv during the day. We have 300 channels and I couldn't find anything to watch yesterday. The only thing I watched was I think the worst game show ever called Merv Griffen's Crosswords. It was really bad, and the only reason I watched it was because I wanted something to entertain me while I ate my lunch. Although that really didn't entertain me so much now that I think about it.
Ok, I think I'm going to try and take a nap and hopefully get my body all better. |
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