Category Archives: Miscellany

Scintilla Day 1

I’ve decided to once again take part in the Scintilla Project this year, whereby bloggers are giving a prompt each day for two weeks. So my usual schedule of blogging will be a bit off for the rest of March. But it will do good for my writing skills. (And who doesn’t want that?) Today’s …

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Review: The Art of Reading

Last night I completed a course on DVD from The Great Courses called “The Art of Reading”. The Four DVD set contains 24 lectures each of about 30 minutes in length. No mail-in evaluations, just lectures designed to be viewed from the privacy of your home. The lecturer was one Dr. Timothy Spurgin, English professor …

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Tedious/Productive Weekend

They say the days of blog posts being of a personal nature are over. That there is no longer any reason to post on a blog about our daily lives, because nobody cares. In that case, feel free to stop here, because I’m going to that very thing. That’s because I spent a good portion …

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Poetry Website.

I believe in fast turn around. Therefore, let me take this chance to announce my brand new poetry website, (as discussed in my previous entry.) You can check it out at http://www.tyunglebowerspoetry.blogspot.com. It’s minimalist, just as I wanted it. No separate domain. No marketing. No ad shares, none of that. Just a place to talk about and …

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The Baltimore Ravens Won The Super Bowl

It’s nice to just type that out, and to read it. “It wasn’t perfect. It wasn’t pretty. But it was us,” said Baltimore Head Coach John Harbaugh. That sure as hell sums up not just the Super Bowl, but just about everything the Ravens do. The team has a tendency to blow large leads. Their …

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