I’ve updated my photo gallery structure to make it more organized. I also added some older pictures.

Chris Carpenter

Congrats goes to Cardinals Ace Chris Carpenter. It was announced today that Carpenter won the NL Cy Young Award. He is the first Cardinal to do so since Bob Gibson. Carpenter had a great season with a 21-5 record. He was the first Cardinal to win 20 games since Matt Morris in 2001. With 213 strikeouts, he was the first Cardinal since Jose DeLeon in 1989 to strike out more than 200 batters. Read the story from StL Today.

When I moved from pieceofshep.com to mikeschepker.com for my blog, there were two galleries that I never brought over. One is Chile protest pictures from 11/2004 and the other was Banksy graffiti pics. They are now both in the gallery section.

Time magazine came out with a list of the Top 100 Novels. There are some really good books on there, but there are a few that I think should be on the list and are not. So now, I give you my list. No, I will not list 100 novels, but just some of my favorite.

  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Timeline by Michael Crichton
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Those are the ones I could come up with off the top of my head. I’m sure there are many, many more that I have read and forgot on this list.