http://obscurorama.com ROBO is not free ROBO. The heart was produced by ROBO in much fighting. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:07:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I loves me some old-time pulp fiction. Indeed one of my favorite authors wrote almost exclusively for the pulp Weird Tales. So I was delighted to find Pulp of the Day, which true to its name, offers a daily cover from one of the old pulp magazines. I love the ... http://obscurorama.com/2008/06/26/in-the-misty-moonlight/ Well, since you asked... I can tell you the title of every book I've read since 1990. Because I've written them all down. http://obscurorama.com/2008/06/23/i-hope-you-know-le-deuxieme/ Consider this an update of earlier post, concerning libraries on Flickr. Now you can find the Smithsonian there as well. See also: The Commons. (lva) http://obscurorama.com/2008/06/19/go-with-it-2/ Submitted for your consideration: a cookbook featuring recipes from classic children's literature. The author's website and blog can be found here. http://obscurorama.com/2008/06/16/unknown-thing/ I didn't own a Windows machine until I was in my mid-twenties. I didn't own a console (my beloved PS2) until I was in my thirties. Like this guy, I spent a lot of my childhood conquering the world via Risk or Third Reich. http://obscurorama.com/2008/06/13/what-you-left-behind/ By now you may have heard this story about high school students being terrorized taught about the perils of drunk driving through the use of some extreme shock tactics: OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) - On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to ... http://obscurorama.com/2008/06/13/one-bourbon-one-scotch-one-beer/ http://obscurorama.com/2008/06/11/slowly-goes-the-night/ Every so often I slip out of the office and grab some lunch at Panera Bread. There's a regular there, with a strong resemblance to Frank Black. While I doubt very much it is Frank Black, it pleases me to pretend otherwise, and picture the erstwhile Pixies singer hanging ... http://obscurorama.com/2008/06/11/theres-a-guy-works-down-the-chip-shop-swears-he-elvis/ 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 ... http://obscurorama.com/2008/06/06/an-old-familiar-scene-2/ 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 ... http://obscurorama.com/2008/06/06/fields-of-fire/