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(Nan)Blogger1840125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-3852055379122857801Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:09:00 +00002026-04-01T13:09:57.608-04:00book reviewpulitzer projectAfter I finished The Hours the Younger Daughter decided to read it, too, before returning it to the library. After all, the book was pretty light weight, both in size and content. I breezed through it quickly. So did she. And then she asked the usual question: What makes a work of fiction good enough to merit a Pulitzer? By then I had started reading Interpreter of Maladies so I had twohttp://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2026/04/pulitzer-project-interpreter-of-maladies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-591832684872667146Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:44:00 +00002026-03-11T17:21:11.800-04:00book reviewPulitzer fictionpulitzer projectIt's been awhile since I thought about the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Back in 2023 I read the 1997 winner, Martin Dressler, and was so thoroughly unimpressed by it that I lost interest in moving on up the list. When I decided to get back to it I wasted about a year in trying to track down a copy of the 1998 winner, American Pastoral. Despite it being a Philip Roth novel and, if I http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2026/03/pulitzer-project-hours.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-818197555363153977Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:47:00 +00002026-02-12T11:20:36.476-05:00catsCharliejoys of pet ownershipThis is Charlie Cribbs, the orange asshole who decided to adopt us a few months ago. He was living next door but after his favorite human landed in a nursing home Charlie started spending more time at our place. My cat Beelzebub was Charlie's bestie. Charlie shadowed Bubba for several years. He adored Bubba. I think it's probable Bubba was the only cat Charlie ever met outside his immediate http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2026/02/they-call-me-mr-cribbs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-3201565731760896489Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:00:00 +00002026-02-04T14:00:14.392-05:00current eventsOne of the recurring themes regarding the current debacle with Homeland Security in Minneapolis has been that the big problem is new recruits. Everyone knows Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a massive hiring campaign going on, complete with bizarre ads that look like they've been lifted straight from the Third Reich, so the collective assumption is the Big Problem is poorly trained new http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-disquieting-thought.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-1782447716323890008Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:45:00 +00002026-01-07T12:45:22.018-05:00current eventsthe stupid it burnsDoes YamTits really believe stealing Venezuela's oil will make the Epstein files go away? Or is he assuming this is just another grift he can manage to get away with?Years ago I read a book called, if I remember correctly, The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight. It was about a group of incompetent New York gangsters. If those guys were around today they'd be in the Trump administration. The Madurohttp://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2026/01/welcome-to-wag-dog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-2464237256366318330Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:58:00 +00002025-12-19T11:58:12.600-05:00ArkansasSnowbirdsWe have been in Arkansas for about 3 weeks. It feels longer for no apparent reason. As planned, we're at Stephens Park near Mountain Pine. It's been quiet, which isn't particularly surprising when it's December. There have been a few days when we're the only campers. Today it's unusually busy: four out of the nine sites are occupied. Thanks to a friend of a friend who used to work for the http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/12/at-least-its-not-snowing-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-8526641338506743309Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:55:00 +00002025-11-12T17:06:26.996-05:00Life in generalAlthough it is definitely a lot weirder than it used to be. I haven't been blogging much lately because all the weird-ass fuckery is a little overwhelming. As an atheist it feels odd to say this but I'm starting to hope the Christian version of Hell (aka eternal damnation) is real because there's a sizable crowd of Trump enablers who deserve divine retribution. Although I'd settle for seeing themhttp://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/11/life-goes-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-3203632376561919566Sun, 12 Oct 2025 15:28:00 +00002025-10-12T11:28:27.495-04:00 Lost in the Bozone had a post recently on getting older.  This song seems to fit.http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/10/aging.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-4026614980367252383Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:42:00 +00002025-08-31T10:44:42.751-04:00life's a bitch and then you dieTurns out I don't, at least not much.I speak, of course, about the local historical society museum. I was a volunteer for 13 years, Treasurer for 12, and museum manager for 9. I truly enjoyed most of it. I'm sufficiently obsessive-compulsive that I actually liked accessioning donations and inventorying the thousands of uncataloged artifacts and documents that had been accumulated over the 50+ http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/08/i-thought-i-would-miss-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-7600804409292807722Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:24:00 +00002025-06-22T08:24:39.614-04:00adventures at the museumI don't look good in orangetax fraudI used to wonder how so many voters could be foolish enough to vote for Cheeto Mussolini. The world has known for decades that the man is a grifter whose only real skill lies in conning people. I know a big chunk of his support comes from aggrieved mediocre white guys who blame their personal failures on prejudice against white dudes even though the majority of the guys who run the country are http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/06/mystery-solved-sort-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-8137270632189139487Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:22:00 +00002025-06-08T16:23:18.433-04:00Adventures in health carelife's a bitch and then you dieNever make the radiologist laugh when he's got a tool that merited a Black and Decker logo inserted in  your breast. Apparently not many patients ask if the needle biopsy will check for growth rings. Would the bruising have been slightly less colorful if I had kept my mouth shut? Probably not. They may not have found growth rings but things did look sufficiently atypical to suggest an http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/06/lessons-learned-in-health-care.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-4056958903961615484Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:44:00 +00002025-04-25T12:44:54.278-04:00xkcd http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/04/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-532057475654997664Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:00:00 +00002025-04-03T19:00:07.457-04:00adventures in volunteeringOdd assortment of little plastic dudes (and dog) Yes, I'm still volunteering there, although I definitely have days when I wonder why. You know that old adage about being careful what you wish for? Well, I wished for more members, got them, and have been enjoying cat herding. The nadir probably occurred last August when two of the newer volunteers decided to rearrange several long http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/04/whats-new-at-museum-you-ask.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-3137185996577752424Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:00:00 +00002025-04-02T10:00:00.154-04:00trip down memory lane This photo was taken April 2, 2018. Nifty flora, obviously things were blooming in Arizona. Only question I now have is where did I decide this particular agave needed to be immortalized. Is it from the Boyce Thompson Arboretum over towards Phoenix, were we in Tucson at the Sonora Desert Museum, or was it someplace else, like Saguaro National Park? And if I can't remember where we were at http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/04/memories-sort-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-2501068309230318541Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:17:00 +00002025-04-01T18:17:01.455-04:00life's little mysteriesThis piece of advertising was in the mailbox the other day. It baffled me at the time because so far as I know the closest Amazon facility of any type is down near Milwaukee, which is a good five or six hour drive from here. Talked with a couple friends, and it appears that every mailbox in the 49946 zip code was graced with this gem. It turns out that Amazon is building a distribution center in http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-far-do-they-expect-people-to-commute.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-8044683988885443244Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:47:00 +00002025-03-23T13:47:39.520-04:00despairpoliticsFor years I've been hearing that the only effective way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them, call their bluff, dare them to do their worst, because as long as they keep getting their way the bullying will just get worse. Apparently way too many people in what one would assume are positions of power are actually spineless cowards because the number of people willing to stand up to the http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/03/there-are-way-too-many-invertebrates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-7270275568485203089Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:53:00 +00002025-03-07T17:53:08.561-05:00chaospoliticsthe stupid it burns1874 turkey track quiltI spotted the biggest bird tracks I'd ever seen in the snow recently. I was ambling up the driveway to the Woman Cave when I saw the largest prints I'd ever seen outside of a zoo. My first thought was, holy wah, do the new neighbors have emus? If I'd spotted huge bird foot prints in the summer I'd have thought "sandhill crane" because we have a pair that nest on the edge ofhttp://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/03/turkeys-have-really-big-feet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-2361070671656700128Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:36:00 +00002025-02-28T13:46:08.341-05:00politicsthe stupid it burns We're fucked. I've been watching Cheeto Mussolini and his minions in action since the inauguration. Every time I think they've done the dumbest thing ever they manage to do something even dumber. Planes are falling out of the sky? Not a problem. Just blame it on a nonissue (committing the sin of hiring people who aren't white or male) and say it's all Biden's or Obama's or maybe even http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2025/02/jackie-sue-was-right.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-5202650277515722968Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:48:00 +00002024-11-20T14:48:06.794-05:00classic literaturehumor I wanted to use this yesterday but couldn't figure out to do it using my phone. This notebook is a little more user friendly. http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2024/11/an-appropriate-graphic-maybe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-280257260843428417Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:31:00 +00002024-11-19T17:31:35.091-05:00politicsthe stupid it burnsThe S.O. and I have been trying to get our heads around the fact that the Human Yam managed to win the election despite being an incredibly vile human being and obviously sliding rapidly into full blown senile dementia. Given my usual cynicism I was leaning toward Americans in general being too stupid to recognize a grifter even when he tells people explicitly they're all dumb as rocks. My http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2024/11/low-information-voters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-9052814697087488111Thu, 12 Sep 2024 01:24:00 +00002024-09-11T21:24:43.655-04:00Here's a clue: if upon seeing a 55-year old photo of a local woman, a person who has been dead for decades, the first words out of an individual's mouth are "You know why half her kids were so dark? She had affairs with the porters on the train." Holy wah. Talk about bad re-runs of infantile gossip from the local junior high's mean girls table. Of course, the person regurgitating this http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2024/09/how-to-spot-racist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-8992845037826656241Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:55:00 +00002024-04-08T13:55:23.576-04:00blinded by scienceeclipseIt's Eclipse Day at last. Given all the pre-event hype, I figure the actual eclipse may feel a tad anti-climactic. At this point here in Arkansas (we've been snowbirds in Hot Springs since December) the sun is still shining. There are high, thin clouds but the tv weather folks keep re-assuring us those clouds are high enough, thin enough, and scattered enough that totality will still be fully http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2024/04/its-rapture-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-6290170150431766232Mon, 01 Jan 2024 16:03:00 +00002024-01-01T11:03:32.751-05:00happy new year http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2024/01/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-5854420768918794972Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:18:00 +00002023-02-15T13:18:37.596-05:00Happy birthdayVal It's my youngest sibling's birthday today. I think this was her kindergarten photo. She has a different hair style these days. http://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2023/02/happy-birthday-val.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44229776106220748.post-2055376742059656171Fri, 03 Feb 2023 22:06:00 +00002023-02-03T17:06:16.149-05:00Independence Daypulitzer projectThis Pulitzer winner turned out to be another remarkably readable book. Two in a row. Amazing. The Garland County Public Library does have the next book on the list sitting on its shelves. I'm wondering if I should tempt fate by having Tammi check it out, too. Although I am going to give myself a short break before tackling it and indulge in some mind candy first, like reading one of the books inhttp://mannikkomaki.blogspot.com/2023/02/pulitzer-project-independence-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nan)3