A Building Roam

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Wandering the Storm-tossed Seas

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Artwork by Andrew Schoultz from his book Ulysses: Departures, Journeys & Returns .
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Potent Quotables: Speaking to the Superconscious Mind

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"Stubborn mental or physical diseases always have a deep root in the subconsciousness. Illness may be cured by pulling out its hidden ...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Amen to R.A. and the Redeeming Beauty of Baseball

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We're almost midway through the 2012 baseball season and ever so slowly some things are starting to become clear. We know the Yankees ar...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Read Before the Electronic Ink Evaporates: Illustrated Joyce (and some Dali too)

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Despite it being far too hot in Austin right now to do anything, including type on a computer, I have a few too many things that have been w...
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Saturday, June 16, 2012

16 Reasons Why James Joyce is the Greatest Writer Ever

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This was originally posted last summer. Today being Bloomsday, I figured it was a good time to post it once more. 1. The simple fact t...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

To Clear the Tension in My Atmosphere, Part 2

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Let us come back to our friend, the hairy guy who acts as a flimsy connecting thread in this little story, Mr. Jorn Barger. Barger, crea...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

To Clear the Tension in My Atmosphere, Part 1

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An abundantly hirsute, wizard-like, quirky-looking gentleman named Jorn Barger is the person responsible for originally coining the term ...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Parallax, Cosmic Dimensions and Their Measurements

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Via Brain Pickings here is an exceptionally awesome little video explaining graphically how we, as humans on the surface of a relatively mi...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Great Migration six years later

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" I'll probably never be as big as Slim Shady or Jay-Z Even though I write vivid like I'm Homer the Greek " Six y...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

To be a writer

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As has so often been the case since I left the nest of New York and jumped out into the abyss four years ago, I find myself going through...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Four Unbelievable True Stories

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Last Saturday afternoon my friend Joe told me one of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. Then Sunday night during dinner I he...
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NYC native, nomadic world traveler, food-for-thought gourmand, baseball fanatic, hip hop head, heavy reader, James Joyce enthusiast. "A Building Roam" is my vehicle for writing about all of these and more. Leave a comment or email me here.
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