Watch Your Language
So. One of the good things about Congregation Beth Bolshoy is that they are big enough to have a variety of meetings and sessions of various kinds on various topics any day of the week. Something for everybody. Well, not…
Perhaps not quite enough yet … ok, now.
Your Humble Blogger has written before about campaign songs, but it appears that Have You Had Enough has not made an appearance on this Tohu Bohu. So y’all may not know anything about it. Which would be bad. So. It…
Book Report: The Last Witchfinder
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Your Humble Blogger is a huge fan of James Morrow. As it happens, I was in Salem, Mass., in fact at the House of Seven Betty Grables, well, in the gift shop thereof, and lo! there was The Last Witchfinder….
Book Report: The Best of The Spirit
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I’ve read some of the later Will Eisner stuff, and I’ve liked it and all, but it hasn’t knocked me out. So when I saw The Best of The Spirit at the library, I picked it up without much anticipation….
Raise Your Hand if you’re sure
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, over at Making Light, goes to town on some journalist for passing along the perceived wisdom that “book publishing is becoming a winner-takes-all contest”. She, presumably, knows whereof she speaks. If she says that her company, like…
Book Report: Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
I was, until a few weeks ago, entirely unaware that Mordechai Richler had written anything for children whatsoever. It turns out that not only did he write Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang but other books about Jacob Two Two,…
Book Report: Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
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I have no idea what to say about Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! No, it’s not about Sacco and Vanzetti. Or at least, it’s not about that Sacco and Vanzetti. Except that it is. Sort of. In a way. That…
Book Report: Take Two at Bedtime
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Has YHB ever mentioned how wonderful library book sales are? No? Well, one of the many wonderful things about library book sales is very similar to one of the wonderful things about libraries, that is, one can take a risk…
Beckett on Film
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Thanks to my local public library, I’ve been watching Beckett On Film, the anthology of all Samuel Beckett’s plays, filmed, each by a different director, in and around the year 2000. So far, I’ve only watched Rough for Theater I,…
Book Report: More All-of-a-Kind Family
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Well, and I have mentioned that More All-of-a-Kind Family is a bit of a disappointment. I’ve slowed down on grabbing the rest of them. I’m still likely to read them over the course of the year, but it’ll take some…