John Kelin's Blog

• Bicycles...in re: "What are your obsessions? Your passions? Your fixations?"

  August 5, 2009

  • Just back from a long bike ride – approximately 35 miles. For some, that isn't too long, but it is for me. It took a little over two hours. I usually ride alone. This promotes a lot of mind-wandering introspection. All the usual brain traffic disengages and thoughts float along. The solutions to various problems often present themselves. There are those who will tell you that the bicycle is ...
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• Mr. Holland's Opus

  February 17, 2008

  • The Wall Street Journal noticed me not long ago. My book was one of five described in a Journal overview of new titles that "help untangle the mysterious popularity of conspiracy theories." The only bad publicity, they say, is no publicity, and I suppose there is some truth to that. There was an unmistakable jump in sales right after the WSJ item appeared. But the article, written by ...
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• Flagburning: A Confrontation

  January 18, 2008

  • My favorite cycling socks are those of the Soviet Olympic Cycling team. I’ve got a pair: they are blood red, with a bold yellow hammer and sickle on each side. All these years after the fall of the Soviet Union, this once-powerful symbol no longer provokes the response it used to. In fact, I have worn these Commie bike socks and actually had people—educated adults, mind you—ask me what, if ...
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• Play With Them

  January 11, 2008

  • When summer finally ended, so did the frequency of our games. The game is wiffle ball and we play it in the street, the neighborhood kids and me. Usually we start after dinner and often go until it is past dark, so dark we cannot see the ball to hit or catch. Yet the games are seldom called on account of darkness. Rather some kid’s mom or dad calls him in. Sometimes my wife calls me in.One of ...
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• My Cousin's Favorite Team

  January 7, 2008

  • I just read Amy Tan's "Virgin Blogger Moment." She began by noting she had never written a blog entry before and wasn't even sure what blogs are.This is my first blog entry, too, outside of a dry run I wrote here a couple of days ago, just to see if I was using the software correctly. I doubt anyone read it. Anyway my sense of blogs is that there are no rules, that you can write ...
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• John Kelin's blog

  January 5, 2008

  • This is a beta version. Actually it isn't even that, I just want to get a few words in here to launch this thing.But I did write a description of a recent experience with jury duty. I should probably change the names in it before posting.Back later. JK
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