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Category: <span>Literature</span>

Category: Literature

What I’m reading

The Blue Collar Bass Player.
Band, Literature, Music, Tips

The Blue Collar Bass Player.

By Paul Frields 27th Feb 2019 16th Aug 2019

This post is mainly aimed at my bass playing friends but also other types of musicians might enjoy it. I just got through reading the latest revision of Ted Gould‘s book and felt compelled to share this review. With his new book (iTunes link), Ted skillfully bridges the gap between the …

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Friends + Family, Literature

In slumber, the sound of distant crowing.

By Paul Frields 24th Nov 2008 24th Nov 2008  children, growing up, peter pan, wistful

There are a lot of heartbreaks you set yourself up for as a parent. Perhaps you have a while before you need to deal with some of them — the first date, going off to college and moving out, the eventual wedding — but no dagger strikes so deep yet …

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Doom + Gloom, Literature

More than a footnote.

By Paul Frields 15th Sep 2008 15th Sep 2008

My wife alerted me last night to a terrible loss to the literary world — writer

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Literature

Sometimes you can go back.

By Paul Frields 6th Jul 2008 6th Jul 2008  great books, nelson demille, summer reading 1

I was surprised and overjoyed to find out that one of my favorite novelists, Nelson DeMille, is returning to catch his readers up on the cast of one of his best books, The Gold Coast. The end of October will see the publication of

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Doom + Gloom, Fedora, Humor, Literature

Next up, Jurisprudence for Dummies.

By Paul Frields 12th Jun 2008 12th Jun 2008  computer forensics, criminal investigation, evidence, fail 2

News flash: CSI to be entirely cast with morons. Because what could be better than trusting bedrock criminal investigative principles like the chain of evidence and scientific objectivity to COMPLETE IDIOTS?

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Cinema + DVD, Literature

Jeffty is five.

By Paul Frields 5th Jun 2008 5th Jun 2008 1

Cinematical reviews a portrait of one of the only writers to come out of the science fiction genre who will matter in a hundred years — Harlan Ellison, in a biopic called Dreams With Sharp Teeth. Go HE! I met Harlan once at a book-signing and, determined not to raise …

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Friends + Family, Literature

Evie’s story corner, No. 1.

By Paul Frields 19th May 2008 19th May 2008  creative writing, evie's story corner, swashbuckling derring-do 2

EDITOR’S NOTE: No spelling, punctuation, or other content changes have been made from the author’s original work. The Hero, by Evelyn (age 7) Once upon a time, when Nature was wild beyond rights, there was a young man who took a dare to go into the woods alone for 30 …

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Cinema + DVD, Fedora, Friends + Family, Literature

Real life continues unabated.

By Paul Frields 23rd Mar 2008 23rd Mar 2008 1

This weekend was as good a time as any to take a step back from work for a bit, so I might as well wrap up some non-Fedora things I’ve been doing lately — less accomplishments than enjoyments, really. I got some reading done for pleasure, including one of Alan …

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Cinema + DVD, Fedora, Literature

Random assortment.

By Paul Frields 26th Sep 2007 26th Sep 2007

Sorry I don’t have time to look up links. Google is your friend; use it. 🙂 Fedora. Got a release notes package put together, only to find out that I broke something stupid that I had originally done right and then subsequently “fixed,” in the way that you might fix …

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Literature

And that goes for you too, John Ashbery.

By Paul Frields 5th Sep 2007 5th Sep 2007

Evie’s first school newsletter came home this week, and printed in it was a twisted, cloying wreck of verse that reminded me: Most of you who write poetry, shouldn’t.

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