Yow, this is going to be tough. As important as books have been in my life, even to the extent of managing two different bookstores and two stints in graduate school, my life hasn’t been a bookish life. Tomes that I tended to read as a youngster tended to the non-fiction side of things, trivia [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Other Blogs Other Rooms’
17 April, 2008
Dude, I’m famous
GromBlog, which rivals BoingBoing in the amount and quality of the weird and wonderful stuff found on tha Intarwebs, has a feature they like to call One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other (OOTTINLTO for short). The conceit is that people send in one word or a two-word phrase for which they did [...]
16 April, 2008
Talking of Michelangelo
Piggybacking on Jeanne’s and Lemming’s posts about National Pottery Poetry Month, I must add my favorite poem that I first heard in the last year or so. I heard Stephen Breyer say it on C-SPAN (In fact, I blogged about it before) and I was just enchanted. It is by the Canadian poet Tom Wayman, [...]
11 April, 2008
Curtail your Walpoling activities
Gwynne Watkins’ summary of the Dead Parrot sketch, what nerve.com is calling “The Greatest Comedy Sketch of All Time” is pitch-perfect. While many discussions of the Pythons’ work concentrates on the (in my opinion, generally much-less-funny) films, or the two or three over-cited sketches that have come into the vernacular (Dead Parrot in particular), this [...]
4 April, 2008
Like Road and Track, without the Botox
I hope that I’m not stealing too much of NewMexiAmIMovingToSeattleOrNotKen’s thunder, but the most recent Dan Neil column, about the new Porsche GT2, makes you think, “Oh, sure, it’s not a big thing that an auto writer won a Pulitzer.”
To love the GT2 is to embrace its malign indifference to your well-being. To cuddle one is to feel [...]
21 March, 2008
Album cover/lyrics meme
The meme that all the cool Musikwissenschafters are doing. Via Dial M for Musicology and musikwissenbloggenschaft, with local results from Alison. How funny is it that I got the name of a prominent musicologist as my band name? I have no idea how this CD will sound, though I hope it would be nerd rock, or maybe some [...]
