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Seablogger blogs a cruise

Posted on November 8, 2008 | Comments Off on Seablogger blogs a cruise

His Holland America cruise ship has "a nice deep sea heave," Alan Sullivan reports, as he sails into hurricane weather out of Miami. The water in the upper deck swimming pools is "jumping and sliding like limbo dancers." He had to pay one hundred dollars for two hundred fifty minutes of Web connection time via satellite, so he’s limited in what he can do. But he’s already promising photos soon. Click on the blog title at the top of the page to check for the latest post.

UPDATE:  A nautical tracking map shows where his ship, the Noordam, is at the moment. 

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Fresh Bilge: Palin vs Obama

Posted on September 4, 2008 | Comments Off on Fresh Bilge: Palin vs Obama

Alan Sullivan, the Seablogger, is a good writer and thinker. I don’t always agree with him, but I always enjoy reading him. But this time he outdid his usual good work, so I’m posting it. An excerpt:

"The cultural contrasts of Obama and McCain are stark enough, but those of Palin and Obama are even more revealing, because these two are contemporaries: their clash will define America in the Twenty-First Century, while Biden and McCain are figures from a receding past. From this point on, it will really be Palin versus Obama. And she will win, because she is a formed and grounded grownup, while Obama is only a character in his own memoir."

Read the whole thing. Unless you dislike Palin. In which case, what are you doing here?

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Catty over Barry, et al

Posted on June 8, 2008 | Comments Off on Catty over Barry, et al

The Seablogger, who despises Barry even more than I do, permits himself to entertain some catty remarks about the quota Ivy League couple, calling the mister a tail-raising tomcat marking his territory. Anne of Just Muttering takes umbrage and, as we’re likely to see a lot more of, spies a little racism therein. Amusing all around, I think. See if you don’t agree.

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Yellowstone NP

Posted on April 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Yellowstone NP

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Cavorting elk, as the Seablogger puts it, on Yellowstone Lake. Just one of several good ones, including some he shot himself, on in a brief Panoramio photo trip through the park I’ve never been to. Is it too late to go, I wonder? Probably. 

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Barry: disuniter

Posted on April 6, 2008 | Comments Off on Barry: disuniter

The Seablogger awaits Barry’s fevered cultists all waving their little red-and-green books. The irrepressible Ann Coulter mocks B. Hussein Obama more directly, via the words of his own race-obsessed autobio. Whatever. He’s just another failed Dem nominee. Like John Kerry, the "hero."

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Going ashore

Posted on November 1, 2007 | Comments Off on Going ashore

The Seablogger has become the land blogger, selling his cabin cruiser and moving ashore:

"It is a burden shed, but also a grief acquired. I shall not forget this day."

I can’t quite imagine selling the family sloop, a mere pocket cruiser, and I’ve never even lived on it. 

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Bloggin’ from the hospital

Posted on October 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Bloggin’ from the hospital

The Seablogger, who is selling his boat-home and moving ashore, is temporarily hospitalized in his longtime struggle with leukemia. Yet he keeps on blogging. Dedication, or boredom? A little of both, it seems.

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