Friday morning sweep
Segundo podcasto! The latest Bat Segundo podcast is with Octavia Butler. Vampires. Ficiton as prophecy. Typewriters. Tonight Jared Diamond is in conversation with a bunch of smart dudes at LA’s…
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Squirrels Gone Wild
This is not about books. This is about squirrels. Today Boing Boing said that a pack of treed squirrels skittered down to gut the dog that was barking at them….
greetings, earth friends
Pinky’s Paperhaus is in the sidebar of the LA Times blogging article. While falling into the "arts" category would have been, um, more intellectual (Mark is there, of course), I’ll…
edging up the intellectual food chain
Powell’s books has begun having authors guest blog for a week and Susan Orlean is the lead writer/blogger. I am heartened that in her first post she writes about procrastination,…
Quincy podcasts!
83-year old Jack Klugman is blogging and podcasting for his new book, Tony and Me, croaky as all get-out. The stories he tells are a little too short in comparison…
Podcast: 2 Goldbergs in 1!
Brothers Lee and Tod Goldberg talk about their new books, what their mother sells on eBay and bears without pants. In case you’re thinking, wow, how can I tell two…
good goodnight
I just finished listening to the Bat Segundo podcast with Jennifer Weiner and I highly recommend it. I have never been a fan of hers before — hated the title…
absolutely unrelated
The sound of the oughts, teens and twenties of the 20th century is now streaming at a computer near you, thanks to the (wax) Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at…
clearly
Back during NaDruWriNi I had 3 Sam Adams and a bottomless glass of whiskey. Nevertheless my clarity, such as it was, landed me in the top 10 of inebriated posts….
Geeks of lit
1. The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams 2. Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell 3. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley 4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?…
