Author Archives: Mark A.

Novelist Saul Bellow is dead. “Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.” Interviews: 1965, 1982, 1987. Partial bibliography. Saul Bellow Society. Wikipedia entry.

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This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. The winner for investigative journalism has quite an interesting story. Jaquiss’ story revealed the “30-year Secret” that led to the downfall of one of Oregon’s most influential politicians, helped foster a public backlash against corporate greed, and exposed a conspiracy of silence, favoritism, and scandal among the […]

Just wanted to say I admire my academic brethern that have just taken the written part of their M.A. exam. The whole thing seems daunting as hell, and I hope I seem as sane as all of you next semester when my time is up. And good luck on the oral. I’m rooting for you […]

This is kind of a non sequitur…but then again isn’t everything on a blog? One of the things I make a concerted effort to do, is to make a list, mental or otherwise, of actions or habits I like or dislike about people in my profession. I then try to make sure that I either […]

Blogger is driving me bleedin’ insane! Every entry I write either a) Posts twice 2) Errors out before actually posting, thereby losing all my work (Yes, I’ve starting saving my work before I publish, but that loses all indentations, tabs, etc.) This is what I feel like doing every time Blogger decides to misbehave.

Neil Gaiman, is an unbelieveable writer who has tackled everything from children’s books to graphic novels, and has a blog which I have referenced before. I ran across this entry, which is pretty enlighting, and oddly a bit pragmatic. Key Quote: “The best reaction to a rejection slip is a sort of wild-eyed madness, an […]

Don’t know what a Mego is? They are quite possibly the crappiest action figures ever made, but ironically some of the funniest to look at. Every month, in the Toyfare magazine (yes…I am a huge nerd) they have a segment called Twisted Toyfare Theater (click the picture of Green Goblin shouting “Sharon”) where they take […]

I sat here and typed a whole story and when I went to post it blogger dropped the damn thing. AAARRRRGHHH! Well, I’m not redoing it tonight. You don’t even get the finger blogger…you get the su-fi:

You know, I think plagiarism is horrible, and it really irks me when I hear people talking about downloading papers off the internet. I work my butt off on the papers I write, and I resent people that just copy someone else’s work and pass it off as their own. That being said this little […]