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Now, Gentle Reader, would be an excellent time for you to use the mouse, or the keyboard, or whatever other device you have for controlling your browser, and move lightly on to some other site, perhaps one of the ones…
not in Boston, but, you know
Your Humble Blogger was in the library yesterday, not the local small-town library but the library at the somewhat-bigger town fifteen miles away, the library with the surprisingly good CD selection (this week: the 2-disc beautifully remastered All Things Must…
What’d I miss?
Pretty nearly every single time Mark Schmitt posts something either to The Decembrist or to his TPM Café table, I get the urge to post about it. Or, rather, to just post the link and encourage Gentle Readers to read…
Baseball in autumn
Seems like every year at this time, I think to myself, “What a good year to be a baseball fan.” I know that’s not an altogether fashionable sentiment, but there it is. Here we are a week from the end…
bleah, I haven’t the heart to title this one
Well, and having written the easy note about the topic of discussion, YHB feels it necessary to write the hard one about the discussion itself. Look, nothing particularly terrible happened. On the other hand, reading the comments section of any…
More textbook stuff, I’m afraid
Your Humble Blogger stumbled on to a topic of substantial personal interest for a few Gentle Readers, and although the discussion was fruitful, it degenerated to the point where I would be inclined to let it lie. We were, if…
Book Report: The Case of the Singing Skirt
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Your Humble Blogger recently read his very first Perry Mason book, The Case of the Singing Skirt. I had assumed, with I think some reason, that Erle Stanley Gardner was a total hack, and that there wasn’t any particular reason…
The window, the window
Your Humble Blogger’s Perfect Non-Reader has finally developed a taste for Trout Fishing in America, the children’s music band for people who take fun seriously. That’s just a gratuitous endorsement, as YHB could talk about threw it out the window…
Book Report: At Knit’s End
OK, do you know the thing where you’ve just dropped by the library to drop off books, and you take a few minutes at the strategically-near-the-dropoff-slot rack of CDs, and you grab half-a-dozen of them because you’ve been driving in…
Book Report: Crux
Judging entirely by its cover, YHB had very low expectations of Crux. I don’t (as we’ve covered before in this Tohu Bohu) read or enjoy much short fiction, so as far as I can recall I hadn’t come across the…