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That’s About All I Can Tell You, Really.
photo courtesy of clusterflock. The stories mentioned above have been mentioned here back in 2007. As for any of Salinger’s manuscripts that might have hidden away in a cabinet somewhere to be printed posthumously, I believe his thoughts about them are the same as stated above, or we all would have seen them by now. [...]
Banned Books Week
It’s the final days of 27th annual Banned Books Week here in the US. Created by the American Library Association, the event was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. Since 2001 bans on 3,736 books and other materials have been [...]
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Fuckin’ Math
If my highschool math text books were more like this I probably would have grasped onto abstract algebra a lot easier – Fuckin’ Concrete Contemporary Abstract Algebra Introduction By First Course Radical Solution Dummies: Dummit, Foote, Hungerford, Shifrin, Gallian, Fraleigh, Beachy, Herstein, Saracino, Artin, Deskins (Paperback), by Nicolas Bourbaki Junior, ISBN 1441451579, 100 pages, published [...]
2008: The Year In Literature
I haven’t read many novels this year. I think my top four include every book I read during the whole of 2008 (and it wasn’t much better last year). Ouch. Hopefully this will change dramatically in 2009. It would be nice to be able to at least make a top five this year. Despite my [...]
Everybody’s A Winner
There was a package on the table when I came home yesterday. I was pleased to find out it was a limited edition (575) print created by Dan and Mike of Aesthetic Apparatus. The print celebrates the latest release of the Coudal Partners’ Field Tested Books which is a project in which people are asked [...]
What A Cat Wants, What A Cat Needs
Since I’ve been doing the dog thing so much, I think it’s only fair that I do the cat thing for a bit. Below you’ll find the “mental model” of a cat (click to make the picture big and legible). The cat’s mental model, as well as the concept of metal modeling, can be credited [...]
Mystery Book
About seven or eight years ago I was at a party when a girl I had a heavy crush on handed me a small coffee table book. After stating that the book somehow reminded her of me, I flipped through it. I really liked it and was flattered that it was me she thought of [...]
2007: The Year In Literature
I haven’t read many novels this year. I think my top five includes every book I read during the whole of 2007. Despite my unfortunate lack of reading, here are my favorite: 1. The Good Times Are Killing Me 2. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 3. The Kite Runner 4. [...]
Prospector
Dang! I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before now. But Cass’, the incredibly cute young thing up in Laramie, pointed me out to Prospector. Prospector is a catalog of twenty three libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. Through Prospector you have access to over 20 million books, journals, DVDs, CDs, videos and other materials [...]
Peanuts, By Charles Bukowski
These short stories and poems called “Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski” (actually by Hanstock) could possibly the most brilliant thing I’ve seen on the internet all year, maybe ever.
All My Friends Are Dead (And I’m So Cutting Edge)