Obscurorant 2.0

Still trying to disguise the lack of original content with a meme, this time about authors, stolen from here. 1. Who’s your all-time favorite author, and why? Easy-peasy, it’s J.R.R. Tolkien. The first author to hold me captive through his prose. 2. Who was your first favorite author, and why? Do you still consider him [...]

Note: this post was originally published as ‘ Thoughts on the Coming Anniversary’ on June 4, 2004 at my old joint, and again last year. I (still) feel it worth repeating. Over the next few days, as we approach the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, one catch phrase that will bandied about quite a [...]