2007-08-31T16:21:00.001-04:00

Band Names
My Dirty Teeth
Deep Sneakers
Those Invisible Guys
Stark Raving Cattle
Not, Cat, Fancy
Sleep Against the Wall
Crunchy Biscuit
Spice Pirates
Holland Oaks
Automaton
Milk White Mink

Pet Names
Squishy & Smooshy (for sibling cats)

Book Titles
Yesterday's Flowers
The Rest of the Christmas Crap (short story)

Album Titles
Syrup Sandwiches

Song Titles
Bowlin' on New Years Eve (country song)
Men go to Bingo
Potty-mouthed Cabbies (instrumental jazz)
Caffinated Kisses (bad open-mic night song)
Put the Noodle in the Bowl

Character Names
Damwell Bettabee

Code Names
Codename: Tugboat
Codename: Flapjacks

2007-08-22T17:42:00.006-04:00

Books I Have Read

2003

The Tale of Gengi- Murisaki Shibiku
Anna Karinina- Leo Tolstoy
The Dubliners- James Joyce
Last Breath- Peter Stark
Desert Solitaire- Edward Abbey
Giants in the Earth- Roelvlag
Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy
A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
Slightly out of Focus- Robert Capa
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
The House Made of Dawn- N. Scott Momaday
How Green was my Valley- Richard Llewellyn (6/23)
Ada, or Ardor- Vladamir Nabakov (7/07)
Seven Gothic Tales- Isak Dinesen (7/22)
Around the World in 80 Days- Jules Verne (7/25)
Islands in the Stream- Ernest Hemmingway (7/31)
From Dawn to Decadance- Jacques Barzun (9/28)
From Art to Politics- Edelman (9/29)
Between the Eyes- David Levi Strauss (10/8)
The Stranger- Albert Camus (10/10)
The Sorrows of Young Werther- Goethe (10/24)
The Three Musketeers- Alexandre Dumas (11/9)
Japanese Tales- Tyler (11/24)
A Farewell to Arms- Hemmingway (11/29)
Utopia- Thomas More (12/12)
The Short Works of Leo Tolstoy- Leo Tolstoy (1/11/2004)

2004

Faust part I- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (4/10)
The Misanthrope and Other Plays- Moliere (4/26)
Don Quixote de la Mancha- Miguel de Cervantes (6/28)
Cry the Beloved Country- Alan Paton (7/5)
The Growth of the Soil- Knut Hamsun (7/13)
To Have and Have Not- Ernest Hemmingway (7/15)
Anton Chekhov's Short Stories- Anton Chekhov (7/22)
Le Morte D'Arthur- Sir Thomas Mallory (9/4)
Republic- Plato (10/8)
The Fall- Albert Camus (10/12)
The Idiot- Fyodor Dostoevsky (10/30)
Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction- J.D. Salinger (11/4)
Walden and Other Writings- Henry David Thoreau (12/14)
Wabi Sabi for Artists and Designers- Leonard Koren (12/15)

2005

The Complete Short Stories- Franz Kafka (1/4)
Marvel 1602- Neil Gaiman (1/11)
Guns Germs and Steel- Jared Diamond (1/25)
How to Read and Why- Harold Bloom (2/10)
Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman (2/14)
In Search of Lost Time Vol. II (Within a Budding Grove)- Marcel Proust (3/15)
Salt, A World History- Mark Kurlansky (4/8)
War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy (6/12)
Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward- Horatio Alger Jr. (6/21)
Lonesome Dove- Larry McMurtry (7/3)
Orlando- Virginia Woolfe (7/11)
Something Wicked this way comes- Ray Bradbury (7/14)
The Comedians- Graham Greene (7/21)
The Mill on the Floss- George Elliot (8/1)
Krakatoa- Simon Winchester (8/21)
Despair- Vladimir Nabokov (8/24)
The Creators- Daniel Boorstein (10/25)
In Cold Blood- Truman Capote (11/4)
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol- Nikolai Gogol (11/20)
Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy (11/27)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo (12/11)

2006

In Search of Lost Time Vol. III (The Guermantes Way)- Marcel Proust (1/14)
The Red and the Black- Stendhal (2/9)
Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman (2/12)
Genius- Harold Bloom (only read half) (3/10)
Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky- Fyodor Dostoevsky (4/18)
A Samuel Beckett Reader (I Can't Go On I'll Go On)- Samuel Beckett (5/10)
Vanity Fair- William Makepeace Thackeray (6/1)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- James Joyce (6/18)
Captian Blood- Rafael Sabatini (6/22)
The Iliad- Homer (7/23)
Empires of the Word- Nicholas Ostler (8/29)
Annals of the Former World- John McPhee (9/28)
The Remains of the Day- Kazuo Ishiguro (10/5)
The Deerslayer- James Fenimore Cooper (10/24)
Our Mutual Friend- Charles Dickens (11/19)
Outlander- Diana Gabaldon (11/26)
Dragonfly in Amber- Diana Gabaldon
Voyager- Diana Gabaldon

2007

Drums of Autumn- Diana Gabaldon
Collapse- Jared Diamond
A Walk in the Woods- Bill Bryson
The Fiery Cross- Diana Gabaldon
A Breath of Snow and Ashes- Diana Gabaldon (3/13)
In Search of Lost Time Vol. IV (Sodom and Gomorrah)- Marcel Proust (4/3)
Moll Flanders- Daniel Defoe (4/11)
Wabi Sabi, the Japanese Art of Impermanence- Andrew Juniper (4/18)
The Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper (5/1)
Two on a Tower- Thomas Hardy (5/11)
Death Comes for the Archbishop- Willa Cather (5/14)
Classic Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (5/26)
Les Miserables- Victor Hugo (6/10)
Moby Dick- Herman Melville (7/14)
The Princes of Ireland- Edward Rutherfurd (7/24)
The Ongoing Moment- Geoff Dyer (8/3)
Fairy Tales- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (8/19)
Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen (8/26)
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen (9/2)
Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson (9/6)
The Weir of Hermiston- Robert Louis Stevenson (9/10)
The Master of Ballantrae- Robert Louis Stevenson (9/21)
The Golden Compass- Philip Pullman (10/8)
The Subtle Knife- Philip Pullman (10/13)
The Amber Spyglass- Philip Pullman (10/17)
A Crack at the Edge of the World- Simon Winchester (10/26)
The Pathfinder- James Fenimore Cooper (11/9)
The Capitan's Daughter and other Stories- Alexander Pushkin (11/14)
The American- Henry James (11/25)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson (11/26)
Complete Short Stories- Graham Greene (11/27- 12/7 and 12/14- 12/21)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay- Michael Chabon (12/7- 12/14)
In America- Susan Sontag (12/30)

2008

Pnin- Vladimir Nabokov (1/2)
The Captive and the Fugitive- Marcel Proust (2/17)
The Road- Cormac McCarthy (2/24)
Emma- Jane Austen (3/3)
American Pastoral- Philip Roth (3/9)
What is the What- Dave Eggers (3/17)
Waiting for the Barbarians- J.M. Coetzee (3/19)
The Giant Book of Scottish Short Stories- Carl MacDougall (4/8)
Waverley- Sir Walter Scott (4/27)
Guy Mannering- Sir Walter Scott (5/9)

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