Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Bela Legosi’s Dead
Happy Halloween.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
The Yes of Yes
The Washington Post book blog has a post about Four Books that Changed the Way I Eat. While I always covet new cookbooks I can’t say any book has ever changed the way I eat. People have changed the way I eat - hanging out with folks who consider food to be a big deal […]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
This cool, and appropriate to the Halloween season: a web comic called Lovecraft is Missing. It’s a boss-looking piece of work, and I loves me some Lovecraft, so check it out. The story just started and there haven’t been too many updates, so it should be easy to catch up. I’m guessing Lovecraft is Missing […]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
The Land Beyond
The Intended and I have been re-watching the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy over the past week, so it seems only appropriate to point you all toward this extended meditation on the nature of the upcoming Hobbit films.
Related? The song We Don’t Need Another Hero is stuck in my head this morning.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Dollar Bill
Change: getting the government you deserve, and getting it good and hard.
I am still undecided as to how to cast my vote, and I suppose some might find that astonishing at this date. Me, I’m having trouble figuring out who will cause the least damage. Who do I loathe the least?
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Picture In A Frame
While we’re on the topic of books, and book covers, and illustrations, here’s a few more links for you to peruse.
Sci-Fi-O-Rama: I totally remember this painting as the cover to the novelization of The Gun on Ice Planet Zero.
Cover Browser: oh, this is awesome. For starters, covers of Tintin, Scout and 2000 AD - all […]
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Broken English
Pauline Baynes died this past August. You may not recognize the name. But if you ever read C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, then you most likely recognize these illustrations, or these book covers.
N.B. - This post is dedicated to my sister, who has our hardcover copies of the Chronicles of Narnia. Also, she mentioned I […]
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Soul Kitchen
Several weeks ago The Intended and I were trying to remember where I got the recipe for the Potato and Fennel soup that I made last fall. In then end, I had to flip through a half dozen cookbooks before finding it. To prevent this from happening again, and to cater to my desire […]
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Don’t Start Me To Talkin’
I have a vague memory from college, or possibly the years immediately following, of a friend of mine who would cut the Family Circus out of the paper, alter the caption into something as obscene as possible, and hang it on his fridge. (The memory is vague due to the passage of time and the […]
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Astounded
I stick my head above the parapet only to point out that Roger Angell, at eighty plus years of age, is still the best baseball writer. Ever.
