Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Art Works

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Genuine plain.

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"I read what you wrote about being plain, and it bothered me. That's not what we meant...not plain," a friend said at church yesterday. "We meant...um, what's the word...genuine. That the way you are is they way you are, that you don't change how you are in any situation."

This is in reference to an earlier post, which was about learning second-hand that someone said they liked me because I was plain and simple which was, as I alluded, probably because of mis-picked words to describe instead of an intent to insult.

"Genuine, huh?" I said. We laughed about it; I know that that was what they were trying to say in a sense, though what I wrote in the post wasn't made-up, either, coming from experiences more than just the one on the plate in front of me.

Regardless, I had a little fun with this person about it.

"Look," I said, holding a cup of water during the fellowship dinner in the church basement after church. "I have a cup of genuine water."

"Look," I said, holding up the plain potato chips on my plate, "I have genuine chips."

I went about looking for ways to use the word "plain" and then substitute it with 'genuine."

It's not super funny to read about now, but I'm pretty genuine about goading. Between that and the "silence, I kill you!" joking around and then crying in front of the people from church (and I don't like to cry in front of people) during the intense meeting that followed the meal...yesterday was anything but plain. Genuine really is the word, in that case.

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My cartoons are like a virus.

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My cartoon characters are spreading like some kind of cheery, subversive infection.

Yep. Those creepy half-headed, round-toothed characters have infested yet another blog. Check out "Go Outside With Andrea." Andrea even offers up the explanation behind the header image.

I've done a few other blog tweaks, too, should you be wanting anything similar for your own blog. Andrea's blog is, of course, more than a header but a template that I made for her.

And of course, while I'm shamelessly self-promoting, I put up two new shirt designs: The Thespian and The Huckster.

Just trying to earn a few bucks, you know. Just like you. I need to save up money so I can start hoarding rice.

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The official Team Lone Prairie 5K shirt.

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I have, at long last, finished the shirt Team Lone Prairie will be wearing during the 5K.

The nagging to get the shirt finished CAN NOW STOP!!!

(Whew. I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted.)

Check it out.

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On the radio.

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The Lone Prairie Blog got a mention on South Dakota Public Broadcasting's Dakota Midday show.

Jon Schaff, of South Dakota Politics, joined a few other guests in talking about blogging. When asked by a listener about women bloggers of the Dakotas...Lone Prairie gets a mention.

Thanks to Schaff for the mention. You can hear the full broadcast here (links directly to MP3 file) at least for now -- I don't know how long the link will be good. Schaff starts talking at around the 27-minute mark, and the discussion on women bloggers in the Dakotas begins at the 32-minute mark. And good ol' Lone Prairie comes in at 33.52. (Yes, I'm willing to be a self-promoter and mark it down to the seconds.)

Links: One of the blogs mentioned in the written-by-women column is Prairie Roots, which is a fine blog that I had not been aware of. Another that was mentioned was Flying Tomato Blog.

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Dirty needles.

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Beware the spotted kitties.

The request came in for a baby-proof Neglectable Pet that was similar to an earlier toy I called "VetTech." This version (called "VetTech 2 and the Spotted Kitty") was a bit stripped down so that there weren't as many threads and embellishments that might not hold up well for a baby.

Always a little slow on getting things out, I was working steadily today to complete the toy so I could mail it tomorrow.

As usual, I jabbed myself with the sewing needling while hand-sewing the parasitic kitty figure to the top of the head.

I did not swear, mind you, though I did create a verbal environment that would be acceptable and homey to swear words.

Dad, in the next room, asked what happened.

"Oh, I stuck myself with the needle again," I said.

"Well, don't do that. Don't stick yourself with those dirty needles."

In most other parts of the world, the phrase "dirty needles" has a very different connotation and signifies a far different problem.

I just thought that odd, and I laughed inside until I stuck myself again.

Tetanus...every 10 years? Can't remember.

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The sad story of Baron Von Hanta.

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The respectable Baron Von Hanta.

The Baron was meant for better things, of this he was certain.

Some Barons were hawking pizza, true, but Baron Von Hanta had intended for his life to reach beyond processed foodstuffs.

How he now found himself both as a kind of food as well as closely related to stuff(ing) was beyond his control.

He'd been born into a life of privilege, made of only the finest polyester and faux fur available on the cat toy market. His carefully embroidered nose and eyes, along with his solidly stitched-cleaved feet, ensured that he would be desirable for those looking for such a creature as he. His delicate pink ears and tail were of the finest low-grade, paper-thin suede.

No toy could compare!

How he could now find himself from the safety of a plastic package to being tossed to and fro about the floor, fully at the whims of a brutish cat, was beyond him.

And now, the insult had reached a fever pitch; he was splitting his seams. He was revealing his inmost secrets.

Like some cheap and tacky alien autopsy, his innards were beginning to leak out.

Was there no dignity left for him anywhere?!

Hours of delight he'd provided, his realistic rodent appearance causing more than one house guest to mildly start and then laugh. "That toy looks real!" they'd proclaim, his own inner shame at being considered a mere toy hidden beneath his stoic interior.

Had anyone any idea what it was liked to be pummeled, thrown, whipped, squashed, and repeatedly mauled by sharp little teeth every day? His only consolation, sometimes, was that he wasn't filled with catnip. He'd heard stories of such things...horrifying details of torn limbs and being drawn and quartered.

The latest indignity visited upon his ever-weakening will to live was being thrown willy-nilly into the plate glass window, where the cat, intently focused on the birds feeding just on the other side, would leap in a nervous state at the sound of his impact. Angry that the birds were not coming through the glass, the beast would pounce on him and nearly devour him.

"I am delicately stitched!" the Baron wanted to cry out. But he couldn't cry. He had no moisture inside. Just stuffing.

And he was starting to lose that. The rich inner life he had treasured for so long was seeping away...

Help save Baron Von Hanta. Spare him from further indignities.

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Buy Brutus a new toy and spare the Baron. Donate to the cause of Baron Von Hanta.
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Continuing down the path to sell-outville.

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Areas of selling out:

Social Networking - Check.
AdSense - Almost check.
Tip Jar - Probably not far off.

I keep reading about people making some decent money off of AdSense. It always surprises me, since I use Firefox's Adblock Plus with a feverish passion and actually don't see the ads on any sites. I don't realize their prevalence on the web because of that, and so it seems like a program that couldn't generate fifty cents for me. I'm always overwhelmed when I go on another person's computer and realize all of the ads I've gotten used to not seeing. It's hard to concentrate with all of the ads.

I hate ads. I have, for nearly seven years, kept any advertisements (save my own) off of my site. Today I applied for an AdSense account. I feel pretty disgusted with myself. But...even $10 a month would be very nice. Even $5. I would take $5. I certainly don't think I'll make thousands, or even hundreds. That just doesn't seem to be in the cards for me, ever, in whatever I choose to do -- career, art, business -- anything. I'm not terribly bothered by that, but I would like to live a little less close to the edge.

I'm kind of tired of supplementing my income by being a medical experiment.

In my research, I came across Joel Comm's site. Talk about your hard sell... He's got eBooks and Secrets and Templates and, while almost Da Vinci-like, suffers from way too much abuse of yellow text highlighting. He also makes money, off of his AdSense and selling people on his ideas of AdSense.

I don't want to become some kind of huckster, always trying to finagle a few bucks out of people. I don't have a "tip jar", though during the Lone Prairie Pencil Giveaway, I gave people the opportunity to throw me a bone and give me $3. I had one taker. That was nice. I really appreciated it and was as surprised as all get out when it happened. PayPal took a chunk of that glorious $3, though. Jerks.

I give a lot of stuff away for free, both online and in real life. The page that gets the most hits (after this blog which is, of course, enthralling you for free) is the page where I have all the free downloads and project sheets. I like free, and I like making stuff available for free.

But I also would like to have a little money in return, every once in a while. I'm not against money changing hands, as long as it doesn't happen in the temple or something.

A guy at church once asked me, during one of the potluck dinners after service, what kind of volume of sales I did via my web site. Choking on my lemonade, I laughed. "Volume? There's no volume. My sales have never emerged from flat and two dimensional. Ha ha! Volume. That's good. Good one."

AdSense always seemed wrong. Getting money for doing nothing. Allowing more annoying advertisements to fester in the world and pollute my web site. That kind of thing. But then I thought that I give away a lot of free content here, and in further justification of the scourge that is AdSense, I decided it would be like getting money for doing something at long last.

I don't know.

But I'm tired of being a medical experiment and I sort of like living where I do and don't want to move away unless I have to. So...we'll see.

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Christmas shopping.

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I know there's this "buy nothing / make your own stuff for Christmas" push out there. Since that would rather make life difficult for me and other artists who make our own stuff in hopes of selling it to you in order to stay alive, I would also add a third option to that list: buy from an artist this Christmas.

Sure, it might be more expensive than WalMart. And no, I'm not busy making homemade LCD flat screen TVs. But I do have some stuff...

So. Where to do this?

Well, all over. There are artists all over the internet. For example...

My friend Sarah is a fabulous artist. I really mean that. Her work blows me away with various forms of envy and jealousy. You can visit her web site or go to her Etsy shop and get some really great stuff. For you dog or greyhound lovers, you've found the perfect gifts.

Etsy, in general, is a good place to buy from. You should make it your first stop when deciding to go shopping online. Everything is made by artisans and hobbyists and you're helping support people in the most direct and true way possible: paying them for things they've made with their own hands.

To me, that's a more reasonable answer to the "buy nothing" concept since, if everyone bought nothing, it would sort of mean disaster on great levels. The idea is to kill wanton and excessive consumerism, but since things made by artists tend to be more expensive than the cheap "made in China" products, most people don't go and buy 20 of the same item. One will do. And buyers tend to treasure that one item more than something mass-produced and common, which is easily seen as disposable and replaceable. I buy from artists. I have purchased off of Etsy or in my local craft store. I still have those items.

And of course, uh, you can shop here at Lone Prairie. I don't have too much pride to mention that.

UPDATE: Find out about making your own stuff for Christmas.

(If you know of a great artist, leave a link in the comments section. Spread the love.)

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I've gone and exposed myself.

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Oh, but I'm not that kind of girl.

It's a different kind of exposure.

(Thank you, Gwen.)

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Free to celebrate a made-up holiday.

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Those of you with regular jobs probably had a fine break from work yesterday.

Those of you who work at home, like me, really didn't notice much difference, though I admit to spending about four hours on a blanket in the front yard under the cottonwood tree, reading a book and drawing a cartoon.

Regardless of how yesterday's holiday went for you, today I give you another opportunity to celebrate, except you'll be celebrating your family and friends instead: I declare today to be the official 2007 Lone Prairie "Thinking of You" Day.

I had a discussion with a friend a couple of weeks ago and she mentioned something along the lines of how it is important to let people know we are thinking about them. She said her brother had admitted that he thought about people who were important in his life often, but she pointed out to him that it would be much better if they knew.

We can't, after all, read minds.

So, in a kind of continuation of an idea presented in an earlier post on this web site, I encourage you to take part in the official 2007 Lone Prairie "Thinking of You" Day.

Ways to celebrate the 2007 Lone Prairie "Thinking of You" Day:

Call someone you have been thinking about and tell them as much.
Email someone, same idea as above.
Are telegrams still an option these days?
Shortwave. CB radio.
But best yet, write a letter or short note and drop it in the mail.

In keeping with the last option, I offer you, free of charge, the official 2007 Lone Prairie "Thinking of You" Day card. The front graphic is the same as above, with a full-color interior graphic that lets you write what you want to say as part of a cartoon. [Download a PDF copy]

How to use the free card:

Open the PDF file by clicking on the link.
Print the card out, a color printer being the best option.
Fold like a card, in quarters, so that the front is...on the front. And so on.
Write a little message in the message balloon inside.
Put in a card envelope (standard 4 3/8 by 5 3/4 invitation envelope would work).
Address, stamp, and mail it.

You are free to celebrate this made-up holiday with a free card.¹

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¹ There will be no free lunch provided, however, despite what you may have heard. Let's not get crazy, here.

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It's the notes in the margin that count.

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Someone finally took me up on my offer to get some real reporter stuff. So I've gathered a pile of documents, notes, chartes and other similar materials that I used in my newspaper reporter days that, for some pack-rat reason, I've held onto.

And I'm laughing.

I was crazy in the margins of my notebooks.

First, there's the caricatures of county commissioners, the mayor, the sheriff, the highway patrol officer, engineers, local business owners, and pretty much anyone who came to one of the hundreds of long, dry meetings that I sat through for years. There are post-it notes, still attached to photocopied press releases and other materials that I had to use for background information for stories. There are charts that detail expenditures and drug busts and FEMA payouts. There are satellite maps, and diagrams of wet lands.

And crazy notes and quotes I put in the margin that would never go in the article but are funny nonetheless. My notebooks are filled with the scribbles and comments and drawings. Things like "could this get any more boring!!!!" and "someone shoot me if he says 'cold mix' one more time!!!" and "powerpoint is evil!" and "what an idiot" -- you get the idea.

For example, in the pile of stuff I'm sending out today, I find the story at hand to be about water drainage and wet lands, always a source of contention. Here are my margin notes, as written, taken from the real conversation of the moment:

Farmers should get cash $ for not draining wetlands. Those w/o wetlands should get same as those who don't drain -- R.

"I'd go out and buy a new pickup tomorrow."

RE sample "A backhoe works pretty good to take a soil sample." - D.

"Maybe LAND has one." - jabs at USFW

I just laugh. If you've ever sat in on these kinds of meetings, you know what I'm talking about. Great source of comedy. Great source of drawing material.

I think the recipient of these few items will have a fun time going through them and getting a little piece of news, notes, and politics from a small North Dakota county. Post-it notes and drawings included.

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For sale: Carbon offset offsets.

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!!!SPECIAL OFFER!!!

Looking to offset carbon offsets?

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Look no further. We burn our garbage out here in podunk land.

Send me $5, and we'll burn it more often. Do your part in offsetting carbon offsets, which are a sham, and enhancing the predictable warmer/colder wetter/drier milder/wilder weather that global warming is slated to bring.

Or, send me $10 and I'll just drive mindlessly up and down the road, polluting.

It's what we do best here in Red Country, mindlessness.

!!!ACT NOW!!! - !!!DON'T MISS OUT!!!

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Hat tip: Myself, oddly, in the comments section of this post. I'm my own inspiration. How sad.

UPDATE: Read more, and download your own carbon offset offset certificates here.

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It's your birthday!

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So what if it isn't. Here's a special treat just for you!

Keeping within PG boundaries, I'm opening up the comments section of this post for suggestions on what you'd like to see me blog about. Understand that there are limits. This includes but is not limited to:

Football. I've never understood downs.*
The Golf Channel, which is the only place where time actually stops.
Specialized topics in specialized fields.
Guppies.
I don't speak Klingon, and neither should you.
The cost of spaghetti in Italy.
Argentina.
How a flux capacitor works.

I've often seen blogs where they open up a post once a week and let people comment about anything they want. I am a control freak and will allow no such thing. There are forums and chat rooms and prison cells available for that kind of nonsense. There's no blogging version of "open mic Friday" at the Lone Prairie Blog.

I am willing, however, to take suggestions on topics you'd like to see me skewer, eulogize, cry for (see number seven above for exception), bizarrely ramble on about, or turn into a humorous list that lets readers get in and get out without too much commitment.

I think of this as a way to challenge my writing skills. So, suggest away. And give me your reasoning for making the suggestion.

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* I've just been taught the basics of downs! Thanks to Dluxe, and my new Meebo chat widget to the right side of my page, I now get it! After 40 minutes of patiently explaining downs, punting, field goals and more, I can watch the Super Bowl for the game and not just the commericals. He also pointed me to a little online instruction. But his explanation was good. Thanks, D!

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What I do some of the time.

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For the past few months, I've been working on completely reworking the web site for the store I work at one day a week. I've worked off and on at the store since 1998 as the graphic artist or the person to train in the next artist. But lately it's just been one day a week, which is a nice change and supplement to the work I do at home.

Here's the brand new web site, uploaded today. It's probably one of the larger sites I've had to make.

Not all of the designs you see are mine because I'm not the full-time artist, but the past half-year I've been focusing on the tackle twill embroidery designs. Here's an example of one of the designs I've done. You can see a few more on this page (the fish and the hunting "shadow" designs) and this page.

Not terribly interesting, but it gives you a little slice of my working world.

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New year, new stuff.

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I've got a couple of new things available. I've been working feverishly since Christmas to get some new things online and make some changes to my site in time for 2007.

Here's the summation of what's new:

I've started making plushies. The first one, the Traveling Gulliver, is now available. I'll be introducing more as I design them.
For those of you who like blank journals (like me), I have four new journals online that you might be interested in. They feature original paintings on the cover: horses, cherry, daisies, and the original Lone Prairie character, Zombie Cat.
The gallery and store sections of my site have changed and now make use of categories, thanks to the newly revamped Blogger. (Refresh the page if you don't see a change from the old.) I've been slowly but steadily working to merge all of my other art/store blogs into one large blog. It's near completion, and the old blogs are being deleted as I check them off my list. You shouldn't notice a difference.The storefront and gallery page will be the main interface now.
I've finalized a new blog (yes, another one) that I've been messing around with in the background for a few weeks. There's no posts there yet, but you can see the additional links atop the pages of this site. It's called the Lone Prairie Studies blog. I'm obsessed with categorization, as people who know me well will agree with, and what I'm attempting to do is have less randomness in my blogs and instead, put themed posts where they might be more applicable. Think of them as more audience-specific blogs than this one. Having said that, you'll appreciate number six, below.
Some of you who subscribe to my blog(s) with an RSS reader have seen old posts showing up as new. This is because I've been slowly adding the new Blogger labels to posts for categorization. This has been a slow process, and has been going on for a number of weeks now. Thanks for your patience.
And speaking of RSS readers...I finally got around to putting a Google reader clip of all the Lone Prairie blogs here. However, with all the crazy re-adjustment to the web site and blogs (as I mentioned above), as well as how I set up my subscriptions, the Google reader will be a bit out of whack for a while as the old posts are showing up right now. Again, thanks for your patience.

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I have to make a living. Merry Christmas.

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So I guess I have to try not to feel guilty about advertising for myself on my own web site.

Right?

I have some new stuff up for Christmas in affordable prices for you and tear-jerking prices for me, from bookmarks to T-shirts (not CafePress, but actual, honest-to-goodness hand-tweaked shirts) and so on. Check it out. Who knows? You might find something kind of cool. Lone Prairie cool, that is.

::If you use IE as your browser, you can see the new "Christmas" ad on my home page directing you to this area. If you are using Firefox, you see nothing but the little tiny word link I threw into the main menu. This is because I don't understand CSS and there is something preventing graphics from showing when they show on other pages and it is infuriating and the devil is in my machine and it's late and I have to work tomorrow and I'll deal with it later. Although something just now came to me: bad idea to name a folder "ads" when you're using the Adblock extension for Firefox. I think that's my problem right there. Dang. Can anyone using Firefox see the ad?::

Cheerio.

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Midwest Turkey Run: Get ready to run-ble.

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In thirty minutes the Midwest Turkey Run will commence. We have participants from all over the US participating from Fargo to Florida. Up here at Hampden, my mom will be walking it and I will be choking down cold air to run it. A mile and a half isn't too bad, though. Gotta burn off the key lime pie my mom made.

FOLLOW UP: Today's run was the coldest, windiest, skin-purpling, lip-numbing, nose-running, finger-freezing, most miserable run I've ever done. It wasn't too super-cold (in the high teens) but the north wind was cruel. I was half-hoping someone would drive down the road on my way back from running the 1.5 miles out and that I could hitch a ride. Next Wednesday dad and I are going to Fargo to pick up the treadmill I bought at Scheels. No more of this cold, outdoor running. I can't say I'll miss it. Glad the run is over. I'm not dedicated enough to keep running outside during the winter. At least there isn't snow on the ground yet.

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New stuff.

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New stuff, always, here at Lone Prairie.

Stop in at the Lone Prairie Library, your one-stop book stop. Stop. I'll stop with the over-use marketing abuse of the word "stop".

And, speaking of really bad writing (see previous sentence)...

...I'm going to ruin my life in November yet again. Yep. National Novel Writing Month time. I'll be posting on my efforts mainly on my Art, Writing and Books blog, specifically this post. You can follow my progress (and shame) there. Of course, you know what this very probably means for this blog, don't you?

Yep.

Re-runs.

A lotta re-runs.

UPDATE: You may have noticed it...but there's more new stuff: Lone Prairie School.

Obnoxious? Yes. Yet there it is.

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Midwest Turkey Run.

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I'm going to be gone for the rest of this week, though I probably will have access to a computer somewhere along the line.

First, I am going to a technology conference where I hope to take in the Blogging 101 class and see where I went wrong. Then, I'm "hitching" a ride to Minneapolis where I'll spend a few days with my friend Corrine before hopping the train back to Devils Lake.

In the meantime, consider a very cool new venture that my friend Naomi and her friend Justine cooked up: The 1st Annual Midwest Turkey Run.

Fun!

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Reading blog: The start of something great.

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Remember this post?

Will and I went ahead and started that online reading group, a blog called The Librarium where each month a book will be selected and discussed. All it takes to join is...nothing. Just read the book and leave comments in that book's post. Please consider it; it should be a lot of fun, no pressure, no driving, just a blog dedicated to talking about books.

The first book, the book for the month of October, is posted and ready for you to read and discuss. It is, of course, A Canticle for Leibowitz in honor of the blog post that I wrote that got the ball rolling. I've posted some thoughts and questions I had in reading the book

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Genuine plain.

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My cartoons are like a virus.

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The official Team Lone Prairie 5K shirt.

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On the radio.

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Dirty needles.

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The sad story of Baron Von Hanta.

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Continuing down the path to sell-outville.

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Christmas shopping.

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I've gone and exposed myself.

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Free to celebrate a made-up holiday.

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It's the notes in the margin that count.

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For sale: Carbon offset offsets.

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It's your birthday!

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What I do some of the time.

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New year, new stuff.

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I have to make a living. Merry Christmas.

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Midwest Turkey Run: Get ready to run-ble.

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New stuff.

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Midwest Turkey Run.

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Reading blog: The start of something great.