{"id":2055,"date":"2015-03-14T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2015-03-14T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T15:39:16","slug":"bookish-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2055","title":{"rendered":"BOOKISH EXCITEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLIE IS A SUPER-VILLAIN!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, son Charlie, joy of my life, is a Marvel Comics super-villain named CHAZZ with the super power of hacking. Who knew? Who would even have guessed?<\/p>\n

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Yet there he was, fifth among the Googled entries for Charles Amundson. \u00a0My son, Charles Amundson, was in the Marvel Comics database. \u00a0This is very exciting! Unfortunately he was featured in only one issue (Marvel Superheroes, Winter 1992), but he wasn’t killed off and he renounced his villainous ways and joined the good guys as S.H.I.E.L.D.’s hack attack preventer, under the watchful eye of Nick Fury himself. \u00a0This leaves open his resurrection as a super-hero or super-something-else in an issue still to come, a possibility that I, as his mother, do not rule out in this day of all things cyber-related, e.g. cyber-crime TV shows, cyber-security news stories, and cyber-using and -abusing. \u00a0Not to be outdone by the Bat Cave, I have offered CHAZZ the perpetual use of Roseledge as his Super Lair. \u00a0A mother’s work is never done.<\/p>\n

UNEXPECTED FIREWORKS — OF THE GOOD KIND!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fireworks danced through the air above Lake Calhoun last Friday night. \u00a0Only in winter with bare trees and snow on the ice can I see Lake Calhoun from my 12th floor perch. Others rushed to the windows to see what was below, and I sat in my chair and watched the pops glow. \u00a0Maybe it was a Chinese New Year’s celebration or maybe not, but it was a little exciting and a lot lovely.<\/p>\n

The only bookish tie I could think of was E.L. Doctorow ‘s Ragtime<\/strong>, the first book I ever read aloud rhythmically. \u00a0The last was Peter\u00a0Temple’s Truth<\/strong>. \u00a0An early hip-hopper? \u00a0I think so.<\/p>\n

AUTODIDACTS FOREVER!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love autodidacts, and I like a lot Jim Webb’s memoir, I Heard My Country Callin<\/strong>g. \u00a0Somewhere in the first 40% of the book, he describes his reading history through his growing up years of many moves, \u00a0and someone \u00a0calls him an autodidact. I would love to cite key pages for you, but I am reading it on a Kindle and not only can I \u00a0not cite or find pages for you, I don’t know what page I’m on. \u00a0But I will figure things out and try to think of more autodidacts’ reading histories because these are the interesting people who keep libraries, bookstores, and unusual solutions afloat.<\/p>\n

ROSELEDGE ROOF HELD!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neighbors were nervous, but builder Bill figured the bearer beams would hold. \u00a0Scott pointed out that Roseledge is ninety years old and standing, and I worried that my new brick walk up the driveway might be damaged by a plow which would be bad because I have a new electric wheelchair to zoom up and down with next summer. \u00a0So I crossed my fingers as best I could, and Roseledge pulled through.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0YEA, ROSELEDGE and thanks again, Ann, for pictures.<\/p>\n

Postscript:<\/strong> \u00a0To Charlie’s chagrin,<\/strong> I missed the magic hour, 9:26, but I got this posted on Pi Day, 3\/14\/15. \u00a0Hence, the Piku. \u00a0Have I ever mentioned that Charlie is an applied math guy?<\/p>\n

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