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I’m not totally sure of the details, but what follows is obviously some sort of school assignment from ~1995, when I was 13 and in..  seventh or eighth grade?  The pictures are fantastic- thanks to Mom and an assortment of talented institutional photographers.  The text, however, leaves a bit to be desired- this kid clearly […]

Last week I read a book and an essay, though the essay was printed and bound as if it were a book, so we’re going to count it…

I’m trying to get back in the habit. Last week I read Adam’s Tongue, by Derek Bickerton.  It’d been awhile since I read a language-related book, but Bickerton wrote a guest-post on Language Log that seemed interesting so I thought I’d check it out.  (FTR, I don’t recommend doing a google image search for “Adam’s […]

I was pretty proud of myself for keeping up with my book blogging, so I’m a li9ttle disappointed now that it’s been 6 weeks  and I haven’t added a thing.  Really, I’ve hardly added anything other than dumb Twitter updates and blurry photos.  That said, I’ve read a handful of good books, but I’m not […]

I recalled this so fully that I saw the cats, one with a Hitler mustache, at the window. When I came across this bit while reading Humboldt’s Gift, I put a little note in the margin because I thought it was funny.  Today, unfortunately, I had some time on my hands while waiting for my […]

This week’s leisure time was spent in hot pursuit of the last page of Saul Bellow’s Pulitzer Prize winning Humboldt’s Gift. Why bother mentioning the prize?  Not because I care much for it- the only literary award I’m interested in is the Caldecott medal, but because the eponymous character says this on the third page: […]

So I’ve had my computer turned off for one day and John Updike dies.  I figured I could go 36 hours or so without being in constant contact with all the latest stuff, but I was wrong.  You unplug for just a day and something terrible happens. My sister told me yesterday on the phone […]

This week I decided to explore some uncharted territory- the graphic novel.  My suspicion is that a lot of people make the leap from comics to graphic novels.  I’ve never been much into comic books, so it’s probably not that shocking that I never got around to graphic novels either.  That said, for a long […]