Dan Weaver
Living in Upstate, NY
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Published Content: 90
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On AC since: 03.24.08
Bio:
I am an antiquarian bookseller and free-lance writer. I have a bachelor's and master's degree in Literature.
I am an antiquarian bookseller and free-lance writer. I have a bachelor's and master's degree in Literature.
Education/Experience:
M. A. English
M. A. English
Interests:
Reading, writing, history, politics, historic preservation, religion, walking, books, books, books
Reading, writing, history, politics, historic preservation, religion, walking, books, books, books
Motto:
He who can read, but doesn't, is also illiterate.
He who can read, but doesn't, is also illiterate.
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While Shirley Phelps-Roper and other members of the Westboro Baptist Church call other people liars, the proof is in that they are the real liars.
By Dan Weaver | Published 6/18/2009 | Read more »
White Supremacist James Van Brunn who killed a guard at the Holocaust Museum was not a frustrated artist but a talent and dangerous man.
By Dan Weaver | Published 6/15/2009 | Read more »
This is a rough draft of chapter two of a memoir I am writing. This is the last part I will be posting online.
By Dan Weaver | Published 5/7/2009 | Read more »
Critics of CCHR say it is a Scientology front group. CCHR says that it is an independent organization. Who is right?
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/29/2009 | Read more »
schdypolice / Schenectady Police. Officers Richard Barnett and Michael Siler just dumped a black guy off on rural Rector Road in Glenville. Took his shoes. ROFL. 1
12:01 AM from cellphone
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/26/2009 | Read more »
A new donut shop has opened in Campbell, California named Psycho Donuts. This opinion piece argues that the shop should change its theme or close.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/20/2009 | Read more »
Psycho Donuts which opened in late March is creating controversy in California and across the nation.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/19/2009 | Read more »
Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas has announced that it will picket the funerals of victims of the shootings in Binghamton New York.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/5/2009 | Read more »
A speculative, opinion piece on why some legitimate comments end up in your Wordpress spam folder.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/22/2009 | Read more »
This article shows you the simplest way to create a screenshot of what is showing on your computer's monitor.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/20/2009 | Read more »
Self Analysis claims that poor eyesight and sinusitis are psychosomatic illnesses, but self analysis can heal them. Read on and see if I am able to get rid of my glasses and sinusitis with this book.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/18/2009 | Read more »
For every person who claims to have been healed by alternative medicine, there are one or more people who have died from it. I know two of them - two relatively young friends who died...
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/16/2009 | Read more »
Tired of lousy movies. This article reviews a website that lets you watch more than 500 quality movies for free.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/12/2009 | Read more »
A short slide show of some of Fred Phelps' family and members of the Westboro Baptist Church protesting in Albany, New York.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/6/2009 | View here »
A sheriff can claim success if he captures an escaped convict and returns him to prison; but can an educator claim the same when a truant returns to school?
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/3/2009 | Read more »
An op-ed piece arguing for the overturning of Edward Jones' conviction on assault and manslaughter charges in a Fulton County New York trial.
By Dan Weaver | Published 2/27/2009 | Read more »
An introductory bibliography of reliable sources on Fred Phelps, the Westboro Bapstist Church of Topeka, Kansas, and their "God Hates Fags" campaign.
By Dan Weaver | Published 2/25/2009 | Read more »
Rev. Fred Phelps is coming to Albany, or at least some members of his church, the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, are. If you don't know who Fred Phelps is, it isn't because he hasn't tried to get your attention
By Dan Weaver | Published 2/17/2009 | Read more »
Short love poem written for Associated Content's Short Valentine's Day Poetry Contest (twenty words or less).
By Dan Weaver | Published 1/31/2009 | Read more »
By carefully using credit card reward programs, you can stretch your budget. Let credit card companies pay you, instead of you paying them.
By Dan Weaver | Published 1/28/2009 | Read more »
A veteran of fifteen years of selling books, the author discusses various bookselling websites he recommends for selling books.
By Dan Weaver | Published 1/27/2009 | Read more »
A bookseller with fifteen years experience explains how to go about finding out of print books.
By Dan Weaver | Published 1/25/2009 | Read more »
The important question is this--if you need a portable heat source, should you buy the Amish built Heat Surge? The answer will depend on what your needs are.
By Dan Weaver | Published 1/22/2009 | Read more »
This is the preface to the memoir I am writing, tentatively titled The Bones Of Our Fathers.
By Dan Weaver | Published 1/16/2009 | Read more »
Elmira, New York advertises itself as Mark Twain Country, but Mark Twain fans might find a visit to Elmira disappointing.
By Dan Weaver | Published 1/8/2009 | Read more »
A memoir of growing up in a large Fundamentalist Baptist family in the 1960s and 1970s. This is a rough draft of the first chapter.
By Dan Weaver | Published 12/29/2008 | Read more »
Northeast Parent and Child Society's Park Avenue Home in Schenectady New York has many problems that result in psychological and physical harm to some of its residents and needs to be investigated.
By Dan Weaver | Published 12/7/2008 | Read more »
America's borders have been redefined to extend 100 miles inland, and the Border Patrol has used this new definition to harass innocent American citizens.
By Dan Weaver | Published 11/26/2008 | Read more »
In spite of the seemingly highhanded way that the Greater Amsterdam School District board closed the Walter Elwood Museum, in the long run it might be a blessing.
By Dan Weaver | Published 11/12/2008 | Read more »
If Jim Buhrmaster is going to take Mike McNulty's place as congressman in New York state's 21st Congressional District, he is going to have to out-Tonko Paul Tonko.
By Dan Weaver | Published 10/5/2008 | Read more »
What happens when a person who is not an animal rights advocate, hates PETA, is not a vegetarian or vegan visits the Farm Sanctuary near Watkins Glen, New York..
By Dan Weaver | Published 10/1/2008 | Read more »
Middle age can be as difficult a time of life as any. It is a time when we often lose our parents, our children go through difficult times and they leave home. It is the grace of God, often revealed in little things, that can keep us going.
By Dan Weaver | Published 9/1/2008 | Read more »
Steven Vasquez is running for Congress in New York State's 21st Congressional District. In this interview, which first appeared on my blog Upstream, he gives candid answers to a variety of questions.
By Dan Weaver | Published 8/14/2008 | Read more »
Be careful what books you read in public because the FBI might want to talk to you or you might be accused of being a racist.
By Dan Weaver | Published 8/6/2008 | Read more »
The proposed Bigger Better Bottle Bill in New York State will never be passed into law because it has several flaws.
By Dan Weaver | Published 7/25/2008 | Read more »
Ring Lardner ends his famous story, Haircut, with the question. "Comb it wet or dry?" I have had this same question presented to me dozens of times since Pete Pappalardo cut my hair for the first time in the little sleepy hollow of Sidney Center, New York. Price $1.00.
By Dan Weaver | Published 6/14/2008 | Read more »
Judge Walther's actions in the FLDS fiasco constitute one of the greatest violations of constitutional rights in the history of the State of Texas. She should be impeached and removed from the bench for her actions.
By Dan Weaver | Published 6/4/2008 | Read more »
Working in a book bindery as a young person is a unique experience.
By Dan Weaver | Published 5/31/2008 | Read more »
Today's welfare queens are not women collecting undeserved benefits and driving Cadillacs. Rather they are corporate heads collecting undeserved benefits and driving Cadillacs.
By Dan Weaver | Published 5/23/2008 | Read more »
An introduction to collecting old paper items
By Dan Weaver | Published 5/21/2008 | Read more »
Wherever Wal-Mart has tried to open a store, its opponents have acted as if a nuclear waste site was being built next to the town playground. But now that Wal-Mart has been in my hometown for awhile, I must say I am happy it is here.
By Dan Weaver | Published 5/20/2008 | Read more »
The proposed pedestrian bridge across the Mohawk River in Amsterdam, New York is not wanted by most people in Amsterdam and the City could use the money for more important things.
By Dan Weaver | Published 5/19/2008 | Read more »
Someone has falsely reported a New York State man twelve times for child abuse and Child Protective Services and prosecutors say they cannot help him.
By Dan Weaver | Published 5/14/2008 | Read more »
Rudeness at the Schenectady County New York Public Library sale is one reason why I go to fewer and fewer library sales.
By Dan Weaver | Published 5/4/2008 | Read more »
An account of one of my first ventures into the world of library sales.
By Dan Weaver | Published 5/4/2008 | Read more »
Currently, it is not a crime in New York State to display a hangmans noose, but proposed legislation, already passed in the Senate, seeks to make it one
By Dan Weaver | Published 5/2/2008 | Read more »
While the religious right was protesting abortion on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (January 22), the religious left was praying over and blessing the new Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson (PPMH) facility in Schenectady.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/30/2008 | Read more »
A bookseller takes his children with him on a book buying expedition and finds out that he is not as smart as he thinks he is.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/28/2008 | Read more »
Paul Tonko would make a poor candidate for New York State's 21st congressional district.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/25/2008 | Read more »
An introductory guide to obtaining cheap and free books.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/24/2008 | Read more »
If novelist Robert Coover had his way, all book shops would close their books and doors forever. Coover's vision of books is one in which they will be written, distributed and read by a computer or some other electronic reading device; a future without printed books
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/22/2008 | Read more »
A Tribute To Paperback Books
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/19/2008 | Read more »
Along with sugar and milk, the daily newspaper is the third ingredient I add to my coffee each morning.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/17/2008 | Read more »
Starting a used and antiquarian book business is hard work but requires little capital and is an enjoyable way to earn a living.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/16/2008 | Read more »
While not minimizing the evil of Cho Seung-Hui's attack on students and teachers at Virginia Tech, this poem expresses pity for Cho Seung-Hui and the inarticulate and mad world he seemed trapped in.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/16/2008 | Read more »
The women always wear their hair long, sometimes wrapped up in a bun on top of their heads They never wear makeup and always wear dresses.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/15/2008 | Read more »
The Mohawk Valley's two prime assets are its history and its beauty and both are in jeopardy.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/15/2008 | Read more »
A poem about how comforting it was for a child to wake in the night to the sound of his father's radio.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/13/2008 | Read more »
If terror is the goal of terrorists, then the terrorists have won because terror is driving politics and policy in the United States.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/12/2008 | Read more »
Sonnet about the death of a Baptist minister.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/11/2008 | Read more »
A large percentage of people who collect and then neglect animals are elderly women with mental illness. The problem of animal neglect cannot be solved without the involvement of mental health professionals.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/10/2008 | Read more »
He kept a journal from '63 to '75.
After that they kept it for him.
Charts of bodily functions;
records of taser treatments of the brain
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/9/2008 | Read more »
The history of North Conway, New Hampshire is closely linked to its geography. It's location on the Saco River in the center of Mount Washington Valley in the beautiful White Mountains has played a vital role in its history.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/8/2008 | Read more »
Holidays and Saturdays.
we'd crawl down dirt roads
canopied by branches crossed
like swords at a West Point wedding;
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/8/2008 | Read more »
I'm having a hard time working up any sympathy for Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye, her cohorts on New York state's highest court, or other judges in New York state who are whining because they haven't had a raise in 10 years.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/8/2008 | Read more »
While not the definitive history of Amsterdam, New York, Annals of a Milltown is a valuable history of Amsterdam and its surrounding communities.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/7/2008 | Read more »
The first time I saw Bible Bill, back in 1978, he was walking alongside the Trans-Canadian Highway, about an hour north of Fredericton, New Brunswick, with his thumb in the air.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/5/2008 | Read more »
The Tandy Color Computer was and still is a highly prized computer.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/5/2008 | Read more »
The year was 2025. The United States was finally out of Afghanistan and Iraq and almost completely out of the State of Florida.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/4/2008 | Read more »
It's not easy to define the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York. The Mohawk Valley Heritage Commission defines the valley in terms of political geography.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/4/2008 | Read more »
If you are buying, selling or collecting books, condition is everything. A book in poor condition just isn't worth bothering with unless it is very rare, or unless you simply want to read it.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/3/2008 | Read more »
Worse than the occasional single book I have let get away from me since I became a book collector are the two housefuls I let get away. I am especially haunted by daydreams and nightmares of an old house in the heart of the heart of New Brunswick, Canada...
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/2/2008 | Read more »
Almost everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. However, if you ask people where they were and what they were doing the day C. S. Lewis died, they do not remember.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/2/2008 | Read more »
Almost everyone knows that each state maintains a sex offender registry, but few people know that each state also maintains a child abuse and neglect registry. Unlike sex offender registries, people are placed on child abuse registries prior to due process.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/2/2008 | Read more »
Current scholarship concerning one of my favorite novels, Moby Dick by Herman Melville seems, like the ship Pequod, to be heading for the bottom of the ocean.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/2/2008 | Read more »
Recently, I took a look inside a local high school via myspace. I was surprised at what I found. I was not looking for anything in particular. I was simply interested in what students were writing about themselves and others
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/2/2008 | Read more »
The continual front page coverage of sex crimes and the resulting clamor by the public make lawmakers feel that they have to do something, even if that something is essentially worthless.
By Dan Weaver | Published 4/2/2008 | Read more »
I love old diaries, so I began reading the one I had bought with great excitement. A farmer kept it during the year 1917. But my excitement turned to disappointment when I discovered that his most common entry was "Today I spread manure."
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/31/2008 | Read more »
While I love to collect books, I also love to collect artifacts, ephemera and other items related to books. These include bookmarks, bookends, bookplates and date due cards.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/31/2008 | Read more »
If you are a book collector, you should not ignore remaindered books. Remaindered books are those books you often see piled high on tables in front of Borders or Barnes & Noble, selling at a fraction of their original price.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/31/2008 | Read more »
One series of paperbacks that has always intrigued me is The Armed Services Editions (ASE). These books which were published from 1943-47 were distributed to soldiers at the front in World War 2.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/31/2008 | Read more »
The Dangerous Book for Boys, by Conn and Hal Iggulden does not put down girls, but it is unapologetic about the idea that boys and girls are different.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/31/2008 | Read more »
Every month or two, my wife and I travel out to what we call Amish country. On Hickory Hill Road, Stone Arabia Road, and Route 5 near Palatine Bridge in Montgomery County, New York, there are Amish farmhouses where women rise early
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/28/2008 | Read more »
There are several things you need to consider before purchasing books online and price is only one of them.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/28/2008 | Read more »
Child Protective Services took my child in October 2004 based on false allegations. I had to fight to get her back and finally did, but not before Child Protective Services had caused great harm to my child and my family.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/28/2008 | Read more »
I have often wondered if I am the only man who has read the entire Little House series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/28/2008 | Read more »
David Paterson is the first black governor of New York State and the first blind governor of any state. But Governor Paterson has a third B besides black and blind, one that hardly anyone has mentioned but is as obvious as the hair on his face--he has a beard
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/27/2008 | Read more »
I had been in the book business for fourteen years before I became aware of The Victory Book Campaign. I had purchased some books at an estate sale, and when I opened up one of them, stamped in the front was this message: "Gift of The People of the United States."
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/27/2008 | Read more »
Even if you are a good parent, you might find Child Protective Services at your door someday. What should you do if this happens? Knowing what to do in advance can save you the grief that I went through when CPS took my daughter.
By Dan Weaver | Published 3/27/2008 | Read more »
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