Since my local NPR station (WHRV) has changed its lineup, I now have the opportunity to listen to With Good Reason, a weekly interview show under the auspices of The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. This is a surprisingly good,…
Your Humble Blogger has often complained about reviews that are more about the wit of the reviewer than about the thing being reviewed. It’s the curse of Dorothy Parker; her stuff is clearly about her, but then she is actually…
Irilyth has started an interesting conversation on esuvee, the spokesmammoth for SUV safety. As he has locked me out of commenting on his site, I’ll just add that when I heard about the ad on Morning Edition yesterday, I had…
It’s the end of another month. In January 2004, Your Humble Blogger managed 39 posts; y’all Gentle Readers obliged me with 106 comments, leaving only 14 commentless posts. These numbers should be compared to December 2004 with 32 posts, 121…
The third book in William Nicholson’s Wind on Fire trilogy is Firesong, and Your Humble Blogger picked it up from the Young Adult shelf at the library a day or three after finishing the second one. This is usually a…
Having read and enjoyed The Wind Singer, Your Humble Blogger picked up the second book in William Nicholson’s Wind on Fire trilogy, Slaves of the Mastery. Sadly, I put off writing a book report about it until finding at the…
A Gentle Reader who wishes to remain anonymous has contributed the following note. My own response will be posted, as is appropriate, in the comments. Here, I would just like to publicly thank the writer for contributing, and encourage any…
I had been wondering what to title my inevitable post about elections in Iraq, and I think Nathan Newman solved it by giving Two Cheers. That should properly be two cheers and a sigh of relief, so let’s all join…
OK, our public library rocks. Now, Your Humble Blogger had been accustomed to an academic superlibrary before moving to town, and before that the local public was the BPL, which is a great library and all, and was, like, the…
It’s just barely possible that some of my Gentle Readers were unaware that January 26th was Bunny Day, and may still be. It’s not clear if Bunny Day was intended to coincide with LJ Rabbit Hole Day, on the 27th,…