Monadnock Pastoral's Blog
Monadnock Pastoral
- Birthday
- February 02
- Bio
- Rodger Martin, author of "The Blue Moon Series" and "The Battlefield Guide" (Hobblebush Books), teaches journalism at Keene State College.
MY RECENT POSTS
- It's The Content, Stupid
April 11, 2012 07:29PM - Food For Thought in The Hunger
Games film.
March 25, 2012 04:43PM - The Bearcat that Ate Keene,
Chapters Two and Three
March 02, 2012 07:38PM - The Bearcat That Ate Keene,
New Hampshire
February 24, 2012 04:51PM - My Child. My Car
February 13, 2012 09:41AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “If it were just
destruction of information or
readers, I
agree but that is
not wh…”
April 12, 2012 10:19PM - “Thank you, Jeff, for
yours. May your daughter grow
up to be
an astute
participan…”
March 26, 2012 02:11PM - “I will be sure to keep
her aligned and focussed, R.
My real
worry is if this
is…”
February 13, 2012 10:23AM
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It's The Content, Stupid
The back and forth over e-books, nooks, kindles, hard copy, publishers, writers, Amazon, Google, indies, blockbusters, Apple, and now U.S. justice departments no matter how literary and just it is gussied up, comes down to who gets to divvy up the cash.
Each time the discussion… Read full post »
Food For Thought in The Hunger Games film.
I was fortunate to get into this weekend’s opening of The Hunger Games at a Saturday matinee in a small mill city in Central Massachusetts. I’ve not yet read the books, but a friend of mine highly recommended them and therefore it seemed wise to see the film before the books/… Read full post »
The Bearcat that Ate Keene, Chapters Two and Three
This week two more chapters of the “The Bearcat That Ate Keene, New Hampshire,” were composed. The first occurred Monday morning when Keene Chief of Police Ken Meola agrred to a press conference with journalists and students at Keene State/… Read full post »
The Bearcat That Ate Keene, New Hampshire
The Bearcat That Ate Keene, New Hampshire
For a number of weeks Keene, New Hampshire, has seen itself become the uncomfortable international epi-center of a debate about whether the city should, as its Chief of Police and majority city council members have indicated, accep… Read full post »
My Child. My Car
A most strange affectation came over me this week when I dropped my car off at the garage to have a new clutch put in. My rational mind (Hmmm, is there a “rational” mind?), anyway, whatever day-to-day apparatus that is ticking inside my skull knows precisely and/… Read full post »
To Cell or Not To Cell, That Is The Question
I suppose it is now coming on two decades I have resisted, fended off, parried, rebutted, and avoided the purchase of a cell phone. Despite the entreaties (nay, nagging) of my daughter and my significant other, I have resisted.
It’s not because I’m a mart… Read full post »
Time To Relearn The Meaning of "Public"
It’s the Ides of January, a little snow lays on the ground, the skiing is good, the price of heating oil has dropped or held steady, and the Pats are on to the AFC Championship game. I suppose that means the winter which began with so/… Read full post »
Procrastinators Anonymous
Quiet has returned to New Hampshire. The candidates have gone to get warm in South Carolina while Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert point point out how Sir Corporate Emperor Citizen United has no clothes. Maybe Colbert needs to actually run and pick up the/… Read full post »
Nothing Goes Unrecorded; The Rest Will Be Examined
Rick Santorum’s appearance at the New England College Convention for primary candidates raised some interesting in questions. His words as he tried to defend his stance on marriage that, “For 230 years the law has been marriage is between a man and a woman./… Read full post »
The Randomness of Time, History, and Evolution
Well, with just a few more hours until the Mayans and Aztecs again move to the top of the End-of-Days sensation list— this is a good time to reflect. Speaking of dates, I just finished reading Washington’s First War (by David Clary). It’s not riveting prose b/… Read full post »
Tis The Season To Be Pondering
Christmas Eve here in Southwestern New Hampshire, it’s more like a southern Pennsylvania Christmas so far this year. Two inches of snow yesterday morning gave hope of a white Christmas but the day’s warmth melted most of it. A lovely sunrise today, though “pink in/… Read full post »
Hunstman/Gingrich Foreign Policy Debate
Earlier this week, my daughter and I got to sit in at the Huntsman/Gingrich debate on foreign affairs at St. Anselms College in Manchester, N.H. What a refreshing experience to hear two candidates for President of the United States actually talk in coherent paragraphs about foreign policy/… Read full post »
Holidays, History and Politics
Well I must hand it to Salon. Do a story on bookstores and Declaration of Independents and you got me to open a blog. Now I feel compelled to become random every week or so. Random, a nice ring to it.
We close in on the Ides… Read full post »
Toadstool Bookstore, Peterborough, N.H.
Toadstool Bookstore in Peterborough, N.H., began in an almost closet-size store along the Contoocook River over four decades ago. It as become the place for books and has since grown and moved across Main Street, still along the river, into the old IGA Supermarket in the center of Depot Sq… Read full post »
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