Monthly Archives: May 2015

Quality over quantity today, people

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

If I have anything to say about it, I’ll be posting a slightly-better Vlog/rant/spleen-vent today.  Ideas are pouring in.  Let’s see what kind of damage I can do.

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Who knew that naming a protagonist was such hard work?

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

So I’m sitting at the kitchen table with my daughter, trying to name the principal character for my novel. It’s not that easy.  I’m on to something, but that could all start running with a wheel in the sand any … Continue reading →

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Thanks Leif Enger. Now I’m totally thrown

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Ever since I read Leif Enger’s awesome Peace Like a River, and Stant Litore’s What Our Eyes Have Witnessed, I’ve almost felt like the farce I was going to write now feels . . . um, well . . . … Continue reading →

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and another word about Vlogging

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Wow.  If you add up the sum total of the cathartic reactions I’m getting to the “aesthetically compromised man in his backyard talking about stuff” video, it’s starting to make me think my wife may have been on to something … Continue reading →

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The Ritalin Diaries

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

So it appears the video blogging might be a hit.  I’m taking on comments all over the place from people saying “you have a natural gravitas that bespeaks a man encumbered with an intellect few of us could bear upon … Continue reading →

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Vlog: Flannery O’Connor, recidivism, and cheap eyeglass decorum

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Now Steve, you didn’t really expect depth from me, did you?

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The aesthetics of old books

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I happen to be lucky enough to live right near a used bookstore that is a literal BEHEMOTH of a bookstore–I’m talking about the acetone-ridden aircraft carrier with sticks and stacks of shelves . . . two-books deep sometimes, with the … Continue reading →

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I’ll tell you what ISN’T on “light duty.” My ability to read through workplace worthlessness

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

The problem with cynicism is its ability to make me seem like a clairvoyant. My nearly-superfluous understanding of my fellow man’s entropic tendency towards cowardice, selfishness, and situational greed gives me the appearance of prescience. When in reality, it’s the … Continue reading →

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Today

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Blogging is going to be schitzo. A matter of getting the observational tripe in between breaks. So you’re spared the magnum opii of nonsense for now. And especially made-up Latin plurals.

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Monday’s something-or-other 

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

At the outset it’s become clear that I’m not going to find even the most palliative help for my literary schizophrenia. Turns out, I’ve started this book, Father Elijah, about four times. But my exposure to the blue-screen, brain-freezing iphone … Continue reading →

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