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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…
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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…
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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.…
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How will we eat it? Recipe 1.
Tonight I resolved to consume one of the more difficult items: a box full of dense, chewy Pemmican bars. There are four flavors to choose from: Carob Cocoa, Fruit ‘N Nut, Almond Coconut, and Sesame Lemon. The Sesame Lemon will require some advanced tactics, I think, so for tonight I selected the less challenging Fruit…
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Movie: Lost in Translation
I didn’t plan it, but this movie provides a pretty amazing contrast to The Last Samurai. Here we also have Americans living in the midst of Japanese culture, but in modern-day Tokyo. It’s a pretty stunning comparison. I get the feeling that Sophia Coppola represents a unique phenomenon in Hollywood because her father’s name, connections,…