Profiles

Gerber 22-41795 Profile Fixed Blade Knife, Drop Point
$32.64
a great knife!!!! it has a great weight and a nice balance. very sharp and stays that way for a long time. very reliable and has a durable sheath too. would recommend it fr any outdoorsman as a utility knife.

Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks)
$17.00

I very much enjoy profiles of interesting people and had high hopes for this book, but it's awful. In fact, I gave up on about the fourth tape.

I managed (with great difficulty) to get through part of the article on Richard Pryor but the vulgar language made me stop. Granted, that might be appropriate for a piece about Pryor, but I think it would be possible to write an interesting biographical sketch without it.

The article on Ernest Hemingway was the most boring and meaningless piece of tripe I've ever read. How could ANYONE make Hemingway seem deadly dull? By recounting an almost minute by minute, blow by blow, excursion in New York to buy a coat. What was the author thinking????

The short article on Katharine White was okay, but nothing special and actually more about the writer than her subject.

The article on Mr. Hunter's Grave, which was a 'non celebrity' piece, was overly long and exceedingly dull, with very poor narration.

That's when I decided life is too short to spend listening to books like this. If this is the best The New Yorker can do, it's no wonder I don't subscribe!

Boss BASS1200 10-Inch Low Profile Amplified Subwoofer with Remote Subwoofer Level Control
$273.00
I think this bumps just fine in my 2000 Expedition. It doesn't hit like a pair of Rockford-Fosgate 12's or anything. But it hit as hard as my Punch 10's in my 86' Mazda PU.

Profiles in Courage (slipcased edition): Decisive Moments in the Lives of Celebrated Americans
$35.00
The author has chosen eight United State Senators to show how courage can be revealed. When I first considered the title I was thinking of courageous acts of war or rescue. So it was really nice to find the story illuminated another type of courage, the courage to maintain your convictions when all around you withdraw their support for you. In some cases the courageous man didn't live long enough to be vindicated. This reading required me to further seek out reminders of the social and political climate in the time period each story was told. This should be a must reading for anybody considering going into politics.