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I have read Kevin Sites’ blog with interest over the last year or so. Now he is “blogging” on the Hotzone at Yahoo. He will be visiting every armed conflict in the world in a year. Unforunately the website has no RSS feeds. A feed is now available. I hope this is just a short [...]

Anansi Boys is Neil Gaiman’s latest novel. Anansi is the African trickster god. He made a brief apperance in American Gods. Anansi has a son Fat Charlie Nancy and when Anansi dies Charlie’s life turns upside down. He finds out he has a brother who has all of Anansi’s powers and creates havoc for Charlie. [...]

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Neil Gaiman in Cambridge, originally uploaded by spi516.

Neil came to Cambridge as part of his Anansi Boy’s signing tour(as mentioned in his journal post). Neil read a few pages from Anansi Boys and then answered [...]

Deerwood river, originally uploaded by spi516.

So I am not on top of things, but last weekend I went kayaking on the Deerwood river in Western MA. We went on sit-on-top kayaks which are next to impossible to tip down class 1 and 2 rapids. So after getting used to running the kayak over rocks the [...]

Gin Blossoms, originally uploaded by spi516.

The Gin Blossoms played a free show at the Taste of Boston. They did play a few of their popular songs like “Hey Jealousy” and “Follow You Down”. So along with some 90s nostalgia we got to sample some really good food from local Boston restaurants.
I guess the Gin Blossoms [...]

Terry answering questions, originally uploaded by spi516.

The weekend during which Terry Pratchett visited Boston. Terry is on tour supporting his new book Thud! He is as funny in person as he is in his writing. He did a 20-30 minute chat followed by a Q&A and then signed books. He mentioned how he has to [...]

So I have had Wrath for one week now. I have listened to it at least a
dozen times. Probably way more then that.
“You’re the delivered one”
The cd is amazing. Definately the best I have gotten so far in 2005. A
nice evolution for Iris. The music is a nice progression from
Awakening. Some of my favorite tracks [...]