Scotch and Toilet Water?
Happy Friday! Just a Short Take Today on a very funny book that is sure to brighten your day. Leo Cullum is a cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine and this 2003 collection… Read More
Monthly Archive: February, 2008
The Best Laid Plans
I try to keep to a Monday–Friday posting schedule and for a time had been doing well with that, even if some posts were post-dated or pre-written to achieve that schedule. The past… Read More
The Library Mouse
Resuming my regular posts with a Wednesday Easy Picture Book Roundup: Library Mouse, a 2007 release from author and illustrator Daniel Kirk is a delight. Sam, a mouse who lives behind the… Read More
The Gilded Tongue
I’ve mentioned before that since going to work for a large library system, I’ve pretty much stopped buying books, having as I do such a huge selection of books ever at hand, and… Read More
Living With Books
This one is for all of my bibliophile friends, regardless of their taste in genres and subjects. Alan Powers has written a guide for those of us who want to get the maximum… Read More
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
Awhile back I heard someone refer to the imprisonment without charges or recourse to the courts at Guantanamo Bay as "un-precedented". This book of photographs I recently came across demonstrates it is anything… Read More
The Slant Book
I’ve previously written about Tilt, a book about the famous leaning tower of Pisa, Italy that is cut on an angle so that the spine of the book slants back towards the rear… Read More
A Quirky But Serious Meme Post
I get so many great recommendations from people I value and it saddens me that I don’t always find time to follow through with reading all of them, vigilant as I usually am… Read More
Burned Out On Bushit
Time was, I was a huge fan of Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury, which I largely credit with enabling me to survive the Raygun Years with my sanity and ability to laugh relatively intact. (Who… Read More
