Author Archives: Ron Giesecke

And another Vlog: throwing down the clandestine card gauntlet

Or . . . As they say, “doing a card trick.“

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My eyes

Really have decided to stage an optical insurrection against me.  I’d like to say that impending dependency on eyeglasses for the intricacies of life has no trauma associated with it. I’d futhermore like to able to read that last sentence … Continue reading

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Okay, maybe even quality’s going to bite the bullet today

The best laid plans . . .

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Quality over quantity today, people

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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The aesthetics of old books

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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