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 true harto 2006-06-29T11:56:00-07:00 2006-06-29T19:02:54Z 2006-06-29T19:02:54Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609550.post-115160777491940946 <summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blogger.html">SUPPORT MIGRANT BLOGGERS This blog has MOVED. The blog has evolved. New Features. New format: Comments. Trackbacks, email links. etc. Bells and whistles. Designed for the ADD-afflicted with MUCH shorter posts! Sentences, too. http://www.hartwilliams.com/blog/blogger.html Skiing Uphill will remain as an archive for the foreseeable future. The new blog has a new title. Courage. (that's not</summary> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/6609550/114730319962337306" rel="service.edit" title="" type="application/atom+xml"/> <author> <name>harto</name> </author> <issued>2006-05-10T16:17:00-07:00</issued> <modified>2006-05-10T23:19:59Z</modified> <created>2006-05-10T23:19:59Z</created> <link href="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blog/2006_05_07_A Holy-Owned Subsidiary#114730319962337306" rel="alternate" title="" type="text/html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609550.post-114730319962337306</id> <title mode="escaped" type="text/html"/> <summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blogger.html">UPDATE The book, Skiing Uphill, Volume 1, has been withdrawn from publication by its author. Preparations are underway to publish all five volumes in the near future. Watch this space for details. .</summary> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/6609550/114574020792635772" rel="service.edit" title="" type="application/atom+xml"/> <author> <name>harto</name> </author> <issued>2006-04-22T14:22:00-07:00</issued> <modified>2006-04-25T06:07:17Z</modified> <created>2006-04-22T21:10:07Z</created> <link href="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blog/2006_04_16_A Holy-Owned Subsidiary#114574020792635772" rel="alternate" title="" type="text/html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609550.post-114574020792635772</id> <title mode="escaped" type="text/html"/> <summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blogger.html">FINAL STATS: Blog Name: Skiing Uphill Composition/Publication: March 12, 2004-April 22, 2006 (761 days) Final Word Count: 509,920 For comparison: Finally, in the fall of 1949, [J.R.R. Tolkien] finished writing The Lord of the Rings ... It turned out to be more than a half million words long, and the publisher agreed to bring it out in three volumes* ...Garrison Keillor - Writers'</summary> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/6609550/114570106551518271" rel="service.edit" title="" type="application/atom+xml"/> <author> <name>harto</name> </author> <issued>2006-04-22T03:10:00-07:00</issued> <modified>2006-04-22T10:17:45Z</modified> <created>2006-04-22T10:17:45Z</created> <link href="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blog/2006_04_16_A Holy-Owned Subsidiary#114570106551518271" rel="alternate" title="" type="text/html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609550.post-114570106551518271</id> <title mode="escaped" type="text/html"/> <summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blogger.html">THE LAST AUDIO BLOG or, HOUSEKEEPING Here are the two pieces heard on KOPT Friday morning, April 21, 2006. The first presents, in Rummy's own words (with some help from Dr. Evil and 'Buster' from "Gettysburg") his reasons for ignoring all criticism -- lest we "throw in the towel." It's a 1 meg download. The (hilarious) piece runs 2:05. Download the MP3 (right click and "save</summary> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/6609550/114557301475549258" rel="service.edit" title="" type="application/atom+xml"/> <author> <name>harto</name> </author> <issued>2006-04-20T15:38:00-07:00</issued> <modified>2006-05-10T23:14:54Z</modified> <created>2006-04-20T22:43:34Z</created> <link href="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blog/2006_04_16_A Holy-Owned Subsidiary#114557301475549258" rel="alternate" title="" type="text/html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609550.post-114557301475549258</id> <title mode="escaped" type="text/html"/> <summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blogger.html">SHAMELESS PLUG [NOTE: information has been removed. Book has been withdrawn by author.] You can purchase Volume 1 of this blog Skiing Uphill, Vol. 1: The Death of Democracy, from: [removed] Book Details (price doesn't include shipping): Price: $****Paperback: 457 pages Binding: Perfect-Bound (Trade paper) Publisher: [removed] (May 2005) Product Number: [removed]</summary> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/6609550/114556075656106380" rel="service.edit" title="" type="application/atom+xml"/> <author> <name>harto</name> </author> <issued>2006-04-20T12:11:00-07:00</issued> <modified>2006-05-10T23:16:36Z</modified> <created>2006-04-20T19:19:16Z</created> <link href="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blog/2006_04_16_A Holy-Owned Subsidiary#114556075656106380" rel="alternate" title="" type="text/html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609550.post-114556075656106380</id> <title mode="escaped" type="text/html"/> <summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blogger.html">. SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH or, I'M FRESH OUT OF ALTERNATE TITLES THE OLD WOMAN [indignantly] Oh! and I might have been so much wickeder! All my good deeds wasted! It is unjust. DON JUAN. No: you were fully and clearly warned. For your bad deeds, vicarious atonement, mercy without justice. For your good deeds, justice without mercy. -- George Bernard Shaw, "Don Juan in Hell" (Act III,</summary> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/6609550/114543666746339926" rel="service.edit" title="" type="application/atom+xml"/> <author> <name>harto</name> </author> <issued>2006-04-19T01:11:00-07:00</issued> <modified>2006-04-19T16:20:02Z</modified> <created>2006-04-19T08:51:07Z</created> <link href="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blog/2006_04_16_A Holy-Owned Subsidiary#114543666746339926" rel="alternate" title="" type="text/html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609550.post-114543666746339926</id> <title mode="escaped" type="text/html"/> <summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blogger.html">FULL CIRCLE or, WHAT THE HELL Tax season is over. Line 10 checks (for whether they filed a schedule A last year, and whether they received a tax refund, and, thus, whether or not line 10 should be filled in, and whether the computer program ported the number to line 15 of the Oregon OR-40 as a subtraction) are ended. And I realized that I know much more about taxes than I've ever wanted to</summary> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/6609550/114513666854594114" rel="service.edit" title="" type="application/atom+xml"/> <author> <name>harto</name> </author> <issued>2006-04-15T14:14:00-07:00</issued> <modified>2006-04-17T01:59:06Z</modified> <created>2006-04-15T21:31:08Z</created> <link href="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blog/2006_04_09_A Holy-Owned Subsidiary#114513666854594114" rel="alternate" title="" type="text/html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609550.post-114513666854594114</id> <title mode="escaped" type="text/html"/> <summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blogger.html">JUDAS PAROLED BELATEDLY or, TO WHOM SHOULD ONE SELL ONE'S SOUL? We were talking about Faustus. The Good Doctor (although that would change) had become bored by the knowledge available through book learning, and had decided to seek secret knowledge ... of dark power, if need be. And, to his surprise, he got his wish. In Marlowe, Mephistophilis carefully seduces Faustus, who proceeds without</summary> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/6609550/114486916679638897" rel="service.edit" title="" type="application/atom+xml"/> <author> <name>harto</name> </author> <issued>2006-04-12T12:11:00-07:00</issued> <modified>2006-04-12T20:53:49Z</modified> <created>2006-04-12T19:12:46Z</created> <link href="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blog/2006_04_09_A Holy-Owned Subsidiary#114486916679638897" rel="alternate" title="" type="text/html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609550.post-114486916679638897</id> <title mode="escaped" type="text/html"/> <summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blogger.html">A SHORT ADDENDUM Today's news requires a response. It would seem that the White House is in a tizzy over the Washington Post (and others) reporting that the so-called "mobile biological weapons labs" that King George announced proved that we'd found the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" during the Iraq War (or Gulf War II) were not only mobile toilets -- no shit -- but that intelligence had</summary> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/6609550/114486518329952252" rel="service.edit" title="" type="application/atom+xml"/> <author> <name>harto</name> </author> <issued>2006-04-12T10:58:00-07:00</issued> <modified>2006-04-12T19:16:49Z</modified> <created>2006-04-12T18:06:23Z</created> <link href="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blog/2006_04_09_A Holy-Owned Subsidiary#114486518329952252" rel="alternate" title="" type="text/html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6609550.post-114486518329952252</id> <title mode="escaped" type="text/html"/> <summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.hartwilliams.com/hd8/blogger.html">. MEPHISTOPHELES AND ALL THAT or, THE STRAIGHT POOP ON JUDAS Everyone knows the story of Doctor Faustus, right? In case you don't, here's the Spark Notes version, which is, like Cliff Notes, and, from an earlier era, Classics Illustrated Comics, all aids to passing a test on a "classic" work of literature that you don't really want to read. I've read Marlowe, and, trust me, the notes are</summary> <draft xmlns="http://purl.org/atom-blog/ns#">false</draft> </entry> </feed>