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  • Suggestomatic

    What the hay, let's get another perennial question out of the way: "How do I decide what to read?" I read four books the same time: serious fiction, genre fiction, challenging non-fiction, popular non-fiction. For inst…

  • Your Mileage May Vary

    Well, I succumb to the book blogger's perennial question, How do you arrange your books on your shelves? Short answer: Mainly by color of the cover. Long answer: 1. On one high shelf are a complete Maugham short storie…

  • Notorious

    Bettie Page, famed Fifties pin-up model, died at 85 (Time story here). The biopic The Notorious Bettie Page (link) would be worth renting this weekend. With the fine and talented Gretchen Mol in the title role, it was di…

  • Homespun Wisdom

    Kin Hubbbard was a popular newspaper columnist in the first part of the 20th century. Will Rogers said Hubbard was America's greatest humorist, high praise indeed. Some of this quotations are here. They're not bad. I esp…

  • Timely Quotation

    From Men in Black: Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it. Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Ear…

  • Voting

    In the 1991 episode Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington, Lisa Simpson goes to a speech contest in DC. The contestant from Mobile, Alabama starts his talk with, "My back is spineless. My back is yellow. I am the American non-vo…

  • The Talking Magpies

    Speaking of magpies in the post yesterday made me remember the talking magpies Heckle and Jekyll. In production from 1946 to 1966, their cartoon was broadcast on Saturday morning TV in the early Sixties, along with the w…

  • Go Away List

    Expressions I'm sicka hearin' 1. Awesome 2. A very special episode 3. ...and a whole lot more 4. I like how you're thinkin' 5. Expect the unexpected 6. An accident that didn't have to happen 7. ..of Biblical proportions …

  • I Detest the Writing in TV News & Newspapers

    Dig this nasty-toned article about an old bookmobile in Massachusetts. The headline is dippy on purpose and soft pedals a serious loss. “Relic” is a contemptuous word meaning “past it” and “dinosaur” in our culture s…

  • Happy Birthday, Writers

    1819: Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick. The first time I ploughed through it I was about 12 or 13 and understood only the story of it. Kind of. The second time I was in my 40s and understood the whale part of it be…

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