Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
N.A.D.D.
I’ve finally learned what ails me: Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder (the fancy diagnosis for ‘information junkie.’)
3 Comments » - Posted in Technology by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Hear Me Calling
Hey! It’s Freedom to Read Week! In Canada anyway. Do we have on of these here in the States? (Yes, we do apparently.) You’d think as librarian-in-training I’d be on top of this kind of thing… Anyway - who knew?
The Doppelganger did, so I will follow her example and note the banned books […]
No Comments » - Posted in Books by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Legends of the Dumb
I have previously written of my inexplicable childhood belief that the actor Marc Singer, star of V and The Beastmaster was in fact, completely and totally blind.
Sad to say, that was not the only idiotic notion that my friends and I took as the gospel truth. We all believed Mikey, the kid from the […]
4 Comments » - Posted in The Life and Times of the Broadcast Kid by The Silver Fox
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Book Links
Here are some intriguing websites for those among you that are, like me, bookishly inclined.
Shelfari is rather similar to LibraryThing, but has the added advantage of a cleaner interface and being free of charge. I should note that Shelfari seems to be as much a social network site as it a book cataloguing site, while […]
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Copperhead Road
Fellow moonshiner Thurmond Brown explained some years back about how terrifying it was to ride with Junior when he was going full song on the highways of North Carolina. “Junior and me was comin’ back through Winston-Salem once at about 3 o’clock in the morning after unloading a load, and hell, he was just drivin’ […]
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Times Gone By
Courtesy of the Library of Congress: a treasure trove of color photographs from the 1930s and 1940s, in an the exhibit America from the Great Depression to World War II, conveniently indexed by subject, geography and creator. There’s all sorts of interesting things to dig up - this shot looks like a still from an […]
No Comments » - Posted in Photography, Librarians & Libraries by The Silver Fox
Friday, February 16th, 2007
A Splendid Table
It occurred to me that I ought to point out the Bunny’s newish blog on cooking and food.
If you’re lucky, some day I may relate to you the tale of the Great Lasagna Cook Off and the Bunny’s triumph that long ago evening.
1 Comment » - Posted in Eatin' n' Drinkin' by The Silver Fox
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Relics
My good friend Cass is an avid, and skilled, photographer. One of her ongoing projects is tracking down and shooting shadow ads all over the Boston area. It’s a very cool idea and I’m really enjoying the results.
2 Comments » - Posted in Vanished Boston, Photography by The Silver Fox
Friday, February 9th, 2007
Shiftless When Idle
Well then there: I mention my inability to resist a book meme and zip!bang!pow! I’m tagged with a new one.
List 5 books that played and important role in your childhood and explain why. Then tag 5 others.
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
This, obviously, is the big one, the book that pointed me right at epic fantasy. […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Books, The Life and Times of the Broadcast Kid, Memes by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
Another Damn Meme
Have I done this meme before? No matter - like a crow to shiny trinkets I am drawn to book memes, especially if they be genre book memes.
The instructions: Listed below are the fifty most significant science fiction / fantasy novels, 1953—2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club: bold the ones you have read, […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Books, Memes by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
Beat So Lonely
From this excellent (but lengthy - you are warned) piece on Frank Sinatra:
No one could sing of loneliness better than Frank Sinatra— unrequited love, love gone wrong, love lost. Observers without number, noting the contrast between Sinatra’s life—always tempestuous and sometimes violent—and his tender, evocative, and sensitive singing, have wondered with the novelist Barbara Grizzuti […]
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
On the Tube
Over the past two or so years I’ve watched on DVD (courtesy of Netflix) a number of series that were originally broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre or MYSTERY!, such as Reilly:Ace of Spies or Danger: UXB. But it’s been quite some time since I actually tuned into either program on my local PBS affiliate.
If I can […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Books, Television by The Silver Fox
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Cocktail Time
To me, nothing bespeaks of old school cocktails more than a hotel bar, and Boston has a whole bunch of them. I’ve been to the Oak Bar, but the others on the list are new to me. Perhaps a hotel bar crawl is in order.
Not sure how Noir was left off the list though. […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Eatin' n' Drinkin' by The Silver Fox
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Kill The Man
The game was played like this:
One kid had the ball, and he ran with it. He* didn’t run anywhere in particular - there was no goal line to cross. He just ran. The rest of the players chased the player carrying the ball, with the intention of tackling him, dragging him to the ground […]
2 Comments » - Posted in The Life and Times of the Broadcast Kid by The Silver Fox
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Stronger and Harder than a Bad Girl’s Dream
If I owned a bed and breakfast I would harness the power of bacon to guarantee success and piles and piles of filthy lucre.
The name of my establishment would be The Bacon Chambers, and obviously the menu would be bacon-centric. But even better than that, instead of the bland mints many ‘fancy’ hotels and inns […]
