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Marginalia – Catching up edition

Too little sitting time to adequately keep up on things. Here’s a few items that caught my attention in recent efforts to get up to date:

The third annual South Dakota Festival of Books is scheduled for Deadwood Sept. 23-25, returning to the Black Hills after being in Sioux Falls last year. Here’s a of […]

Kurt Vonnegut follow-up

My Blogcritics review of Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country has prompted a fairly heated and at times nasty comment war at that site. Of course, it seems many of the comments have nothing to do with the book itself. Perhaps it is a reflection of some of the points Vonnegut was making with […]

Recent repairs lead to reduced posting

Return home from back surgery and resulting post-op limitations limit my time sitting at the PC and, hence, reduced frequency in posting for the near future. (Wish I could spring for a laptop and in-house wireless access). Anyway, the up side is plenty of time for reading and DVDs, which, in turn, may lead to […]

Book Review: A Man Without A Country (2005)

I have been a Kurt Vonnegut fan for as long as I can remember. That doesn’t mean I think everything he’s written is golden. There are some stinkers. But when you learn that you share some of the same worldview as that writer, you ponder whether that commonality also impacted your assessment of his writing […]

The season approaches

I picked up my Sioux Falls Stampede season tickets over the noon hour today. (The season opening home game is Saturday, Sept. 24). My usual pre-season desire was reinforced by an ad in Sunday’s paper that appears to be part of a tremendous new ad campaign.

The ad copy reads:

When you’re playing for a […]