Joke # 39
Do you know joke # 39? You probably know a version of it, perhaps set in a logician’s convention. Here’s the version from pp. 71-72 of The Tidewater Tales, by John Barth. Kathy is telling it to her husband, Peter….
Not watching Emperor Palpatine
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It’s true; Your Humble Blogger has let partisanship get in the way of blogging. I haven’t watched the Republican Convention at all. I’m assuming that the main speeches will be available for download next week, when I plan to look…
Book Report: Ombria in Shadow
Two weeks ago, Chris Cobb recommended Ombria in Shadow when I said that I enjoyed a different Patricia McKillip book. I picked up this one, and enjoyed it far more than the previous one. There are flaws, of course, and…
Sorry, nothing happening here
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Your Humble Blogger has been slacking lately. Just slacking. No particular reason for it. I seem to have difficulty sticking to this blog business. I imagine I’ll bust through and start posting ten notes a week again sometime. Until then,…
Book Report: The Dragon Quintet
YHB read The Dragon Quintet with low expectations, and it pretty much fulfilled them. The novella or novelette or whatever is an awkward form, I think. It’s too long to just be a quick introduction to an idea of a…
Sunday morning, New York Times
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YHB goes through the New York Times Sunday Arts and Leisure section on-line, these days, which is not a good substitute for the real thing, as a good deal of the fun is the ads. Still, there’s a good half-hours…
Jocularity? Jocularity?!?
Your Humble Blogger was considering writing about the recent death of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who identified the five stages of feeding a two-year old (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance), but I think instead it’s time for something truly frivolous. So,…
Stop it stop it stop it!
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So, what was your favorite part of Animal House? Was it the way John Belushi’s eyes bugged out when he saw the topless pillow fight in the girls’ dorm? Or the way the psychomachia couldn’t convince Larry to fuck the…
Book Report: The Last of the Wine
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I was looking for a bathtub book, something to distract me from the politics of the moment, so I grabbed The Last of the Wine off the shelf. As I remembered, it’s the most straightforward love story of Mary Renault’s…
Book Report: NeverWhere
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YHB is getting behind again on these Book Reports. Keeping up is difficult, and requires less reading and more blogging; if I spend enough time on these book reports, I won’t be able to do much more reading, and I’ll…