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2005 VarleyYarn Index © 2005 by John Varley; all rights reserved |
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February 3, 2005 - Pray for the Pope |
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March 16, 2005 - The UP Series We don’t usually put movie reviews here, but this one was such a magnificent accomplishment and such a marathon viewing event that we decided to make an exception. |
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March 20, 2005 - A Prayer for Congress |
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March 23, 2005 - Yea, though we drive through the Valley of Death Right after Christmas last year we drove home from Las Vegas and detoured north to Death Valley. |
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March 24-27, 2005 - Varley's Guest of Honor Speech The three rules I know about public speaking are: one, start off with a joke, two, don’t read your speech, and three, keep it short. I’m going to have to break two of those rules right off the bat... |
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April 11, 2005 - Iceland: Threat or Menace? Now that the business in Iraq is pretty much settled—a puppet government installed, embassies and bases well on their way to completion, an acceptable level of casualties—I think it’s time to start considering America’s next target for liberation and/or suppression. |
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April 22, 2005 - New Rules There’s some TV comic who makes lists of new rules. I can’t remember his name. These are things we should stop doing, and they’re funny, mostly. |
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May 13, 2005 - #$%!ing Up! Come over here, dude. Yeah, you! You, looking up at all the tall buildings with a goofy smile on your face and the hayseeds in your hair. I got something for you ... |
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May 24, 2005 - Cndnsd bks My agent told me a few days ago that Readers Digest is interested in taking a look at my upcoming book, Mammoth, for possible condensation. |
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June 15, 2005 - He Beat It We were there. |
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July 9, 2005 - Things I Hate Aboot Canada Whoa! Settle down! Don’t get excited, my Canadian friends, and my fellow Canada-lovers! I am a great admirer of Canada, and have been since I was very young and my family crossed from Detroit and spent a day there and it became clear to me for the first time that it was another country, very much like the United States but different in some ways. |
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July 28, 2005 - We're Back When we pulled into the driveway I noted the mileage for the whole trip: 4645.4. |
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August 22, 2005 - We meet Ronald Reagan We needed a break, and saw that the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) was paying a call at Santa Barbara this weekend. |
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September 8, 2005 - A Prayer for Justice Rehnquist O Dear Heavenly Father ... |
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September 12, 2005 - A Prayer for 9/12 In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful! |
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September 30, 2005 - Top SF & F Movies I see science fiction films as being tied, however tenuously, to some scientific concept. It can be space travel, research, medicine, psychology, time travel, alternate worlds, or even psychic powers. |
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October 31, 2005 - Travels with Steinbeck With Red Lightning finished and off to the editors, Lee and I decided to take a little day trip up to Salinas. |
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October 6, 2005 - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Watts David Crosby kindly comped us to a couple tickets to the Crosby, Stills, & Nash concert at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, the fourth or fifth-to-last appearance on their 2005 American tour. |
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October 11, 2005 - Copywrongs We found an article, “Imagine a world without copyright,” by Joost Smiers and Marieke van Schijndel, at the Common Dreams website. |
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October 24, 2005 - Petaveggies Vegetarians piss me off. |
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November 7, 2005 - This is sooooo not 1968 When the 2000th US soldier died in Iraq, there were vigils all over the country. Lee heard there was going to be one in San Luis Obispo at 6:30, and we decided to go. It was in the little plaza in front of the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. |
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November 30, 2005 - Pseudointelligence And the war drags on. There is no end in sight; no end is even envisioned. It is a war that was destined to fail from the very first shot fired; failure was built in to the initial strategy, and the tactics have guaranteed it is not only unwinnable, but that every battle will be lost, and every step we take will further erode our national moral fiber. |
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December 25, 2005 - Online Xmas Card: My Favorite Holiday Movies |
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