5 January 2009
Now it’s official
I turned in my letter of resignation today at my job. It made me sad.
But now it is official. My last day is February 6 at Georgia Tech, and my first day is February 16 at the Historic New Orleans Collection. Tell your friends and neighbors.
Leslie and I are moving to New Orleans!
posted Monday, 5 Jan 2009 at 5:08pm by Kent in Atlanta & New Orleans & The Good Things
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2 January 2009
books read in 2008 by brent’s brother
I wasn’t going to release my list this year, but having now seen how my 2007 list scaled the elbuzzard heights last year, well I am hopelessly moved to act. I didn’t read as many books this year largely because I was very nearly crushed under the weight of Infinite Jest from January to probably April. Anyway, here they are:
1. Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz
3. Winter’s Bone- Daniel Woodrell
4. The Boy Detective Fails- Joe Meno
5. The French Lieutenant’s Woman- John Fowles
6. Don’t Get too Comfortable- David Rackoff
7. Quiet Strength- Nathan Whitaker, Tony Dungy
8. Oh Pure and Radiant Heart- Lydia Millet
9. Kaffir Boy- Mark Mathabane
10. Triste Tropiques- Claud Levi-Strauss
11. The Canon- Natalie Angier
12. Bush at War- Carl Woodward
13. Bridge of San Luis Rey- Thorton Wilder
14. Bowl of Cherries- Millard Kaufman
15. The Plot Against America- Phillip Roth
16. Our Story Begins- Tobias Wolff
17. The Stand- Stephen King
18. Noodling for Flatheads- Burkhard Bilger
19. Ubik- Phillip K. Dick
20. Alligator- Lisa Moore
21. My Stroke of Insight- Jill Taylor
22. The Chosen- Chaim Potok
23. A Treatise on Human Nature- David Hume
24. The Wayward Bus- John Steinbeck
25. Terrorist- John Updike
26. Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
27. Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
28. The Adventures of Augie March- Saul Bellow
29. Why We Hate Us- Dick Meyer
30. Comedy by the Numbers- Eric Hoffman and Gary Rudoren
31. Heyday- Kurt Anderson
My favorite book in a route was The Boy Detective Fails. Least favorite, the creepy Tony Dungy book. Happy New Year to you all!
Chuck
posted Friday, 2 Jan 2009 at 1:41pm by carlbad in How to Live
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31 December 2008
My New Year’s Resolutions:
1. Kent’s new year resolution is to stop swearing. I counter that it’s all I have left. I quit everything that’s fun and I have no vices anymore. I’m keeping the fucking swearing until I have kids and even then I’ll just take it down a freaking notch.
2. Investigate how to incorporate sarcasm into writing so that the sarcasm is evident.
3. Play with Lucy.
4. Learn French cooking.
5. Find Roosevelt a friend. We adopted Rose to be a friend for Potato but she’s indifferent to pretty much everything on earth except for Beth’s room, drinking out of the faucet, and me (see photo below). Kent wants a tiny dog.
6. To find time to knit a lot more.
7. Master fresh pasta making.
8. Go to the beach.
posted Wednesday, 31 Dec 2008 at 2:52pm by Leslie in General
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