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Gimme a Baby to Kiss! I’m on the Campaign Trail…

Goodreads is sponsoring an Independent Book Bloggers Award this year and I’ve put my name in the running. I’m kind of proud of some of the work I’ve done on here, so I said to my self, “Bruce, my lad,” … Continue reading

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Great–Now I’m Hungry for SOPA-PIPAs….

Okay, so I totally stole that joke from the internetz. It’s still funny. But if the legislation that is being proposed right now actually becomes law, I could be declared a dirty internet pirate whore for posting this. Not my … Continue reading

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Top Distractions of 2011

So, with 2011 skulking out the side entrance and 2012 boldly stepping forward, we here at the Serial Distractions Monkey Lubrication Depot and Tobacconist Shoppe™ look back at the various books we reviewed last year that still stand out as … Continue reading

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2011 in review

So, with a new year budding it comes that time where we look back at the previous annum to assess. WordPress provided me a pretty swanky report what this blog did in the past year. Feel free to take a … Continue reading

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Banned Book Week aka The Geek Gets Political (Again)

I’m generally a pretty even-keeled guy with a live-and-let-live attitude. I also hate getting into political discussions because most of the time they are like religious discussions: people too often stop discussing their points and start trying to convert me … Continue reading

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