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Some links for your entertainment: The Marine Corps in China. Raging Bull is overrated… ..and so apparently are certain albums. LibraryThing Local – an interactive map of all things bookish. Bookshelf Etiquette N.B. – The title song for this post can be found on Living Legends by the Fleshtones. [...] Some time ago the Bunny and I attempted to visit the Pabst brewery in Milly-wah-kay. Unsuccessfully, because as it turned out, that particular brewery is closed. However, you can go here to check out some pictures of the now-abandoned building. Extra creepy bonus – pictures from an insane asylum – for children. Between the collections that The Intended and I brought along when we moved in together (and two recent purchases en route), there’s a fair number of cookbooks lining the shelf in our kitchen. So what I’m kind of curious about is – do folks treat their cookbooks strictly as reference material, plucking them from the [...] Right then. As I talked about earlier, the inaugural use of the mandoline was in making ratatouille, using a recipe I found at SmittenKitchen. It was quite tasty, though as the following pictures show, I won’t be winning any awards for presentation in the near future: [...] Things I did this weekend: This could turn out to be very handy: an application that allows you to download music from a friend’s iTunes library. Still in beta for Windows though. Yesterday marked the passing of science fiction giant Arthur C. Clarke. I can’t say I was a huge fan of his work, though as a fan of the genre I was familiar with his work. I’d venture a guess that most folks knew of him as the man who wrote the short story behind 2001: [...] Reason number 1,311 to return to London some fine day: The TinTin Shop. Happy St. Paddy’s Day. The Gator returns. Awesomeness ensues: Always felt like I had Red Sox blood in me.” Today in the New York Times: an article and slideshow on the athenaeums – private libraries – of New England, complete with pronunciation guide for the local dialect: “(A note to those who visit: While athenaeum is commonly pronounced ath-eh-NEE-um, in New England ath-eh-NAY-um is acceptable.)” Last semester I had occasion to visit the Salem [...] A few more Gary Gygax tributes from around the tubes. This article from The Believer, written when Gygax was still alive, is especially well done. Until I read some of these tributes I’d forgotten just how many of these games, beyond Dungeons and Dragons, that I played as a kid. In retrospect, some of them [...] This is the kind of historical tidbit that fascinates me: Chicago’s long-abandoned freight subway. Apparently the tunnels are still extant, though sealed off to the public. The first celebrity crush I can recall having was Kim Richards, when she played Tia in Escape To Witch Mountain and Return From Witch Mountain. Therefore, it is with some trepidation that I learn of Disney’s intentions to make another Witch Mountain movie. Somewhat related – perhaps I should add Tuff Turf to my Netflix [...] Hope springs eternal, as do book memes. Found this one here, and as always, feel free to play along at home. 1. When/how did you become an avid reader? Second grade. The school library. The astounding revelation that I could get any book about any topic I chose. So I read Guadalcanal Diary about a [...] |
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