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Month: December 2004

  • Comments are back

    Thanks to some good tips from the Radical Wacko, the hobolog is now armed with spam-fighting software that should post real comments immediately, while suppressing and doing battle with spam comments.

  • Movie: Shall We Dance? (American version)

    This was a good movie to catch at the $2 matinee with my dad and Sarah, who left the theater waltzing. It’s goofy, but fun. If you’re a ballroom dancer, you probably won’t be able to help enjoying yourself. It also manages to do a little real exploration of how personal change might affect an…

  • Movie: The Bourne Identity

    Good, for a Hollywood action movie. It’s not nearly as philosophical as it could be with the story setup, but the theme of self-exploration leading to shock and denial is interesting enough to give power to the standard evil government project coverup plot.

  • Safe World

    Today I heard President Bush say on the radio, “A free Iraq will make the world safe.” The number of U.S. troops who have died in combat topped 1,000 today.

  • What Drives You To Summit?

    Ransom Altman, the protagonist of my novel, WILD ANIMUS, is a mountain climber who’s not satisfied merely to summit peaks. He’s on a quest for a level of meaning and truth accessible only in the wildest corners of the globe, and ultimately, he ascends Alaska’s Mt. Wrangell with a single-minded purpose: to reunite himself with…

  • WILD ANIMUS preview

    This excerpt from Rich Shapero’s new book was just released, if you’re curious to read a little before Rich’s appearance here tomorrow.

  • Movie: Frida

    This is one of the better artist portrait films I’ve seen. It incorporates her accident, physical problems, lovers, husband, politics, and especially her art into a very real-feeling world. Ann has read a book about Frida, and from what she’s told me the movie is fairly accurate, but a little romanticized. No matter, it’s an…

  • Breckenridge

    The lesson of our first day on the ski slopes this year is this: if you don’t know where sniff out the deals you will pay out the nose. I remembered that a local grocery chain sells lift tickets, and this saved us $28 on the ski-base price of $118 for two day passes. And…

  • Movie: Big Fish

    While this movie has some interesting things to say about how our personal histories can disappear and be replaced by the stories we tell, it loses steam beyond that. Too bad, it has some fun moments, but you have to sit through a lot of predictable scenes to enjoy them.

  • hobolog Guest Appearance: Rich Shapero

    Next week Rich Shapero will make the first guest appearance ever on the hobolog. Rich is exploring alternative ways to promote his new book, WILD ANIMUS. He has started his own publishing company, Too Far, given away thousands of promotional copies of the book (I received one via FedEx), and generally shunned traditional publishing methods.…