Book Report: The Cider House Rules
Your Humble Blogger is interested in how books are made into movies. Or at least, how novels are made into screenplays. It’s such a strange thing to do, and it seems so difficult. There are a few movies I think…
Boss
I’m sure I won’t be the first place you’ve heard this, but Bruce Springsteen has an Op-Ed in this morning’s New York Times, which, of course, requires registration. Anyway, it’s a simple explanation of why he has chosen to get…
Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope
Oh, my. It took me a while to write this, and I could take more time and make it shorter, but it’s probably just as well to get it over and done. If you want a better and briefer look…
right, right
I can’t help it; I have to point to Geoffrey Pullam’s tale of electronic submission woes and the Cambridge University Press. In general, it’s an entertainingly written introduction to the extraordinary silliness of the way word-processing totally fails to connect…
Tohu-Bohu Book Club: Better Together, Introduction
Hi, come on in. There are plenty of virtual chairs, and even virtual floor pillows for the young and flexible. The virtual kettle is on, and we have virtual tea and virtual hot chocolate, but I’m afraid we only have…
Theresa Heinz Kerry: We can and we will.
Why do so many speeches at this level read like second drafts? I want to mark up the transcripts and say “Here, these sentences can be made parallel, and turn this one around to put the applause line at the…
Some ideas for the Tohu-Bohu book club
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Some ideas for the Tohu-Bohu book club. That’s what I need, some ideas for the Tohu-Bohu book club. Y’all remember that the first meeting of the Tohu-Bohu book club is this weekend, right? We’re discussing the introduction and first chapter…
Thursday Afternoon
OK, Here’s the last day’s notes. Not much here. I watched quite a bit of it, but I wound up not making many notes, or even thinking much about it. Anway, here we go. The Honorable Jack Ford—Mayor of Toledo,…
That’s a wrap
Your Humble Blogger is so bad at this blogging thing. I’ve just finished listening to John Kerry’s acceptance speech, and I have a couple of pages of notes, but I still need to do a lot of thinking before I’m…
Jennifer Granholm: Let Us Wake Our Neighbors
One of the things Your Humble Blogger likes in a speech is a central metaphor. It’s helpful if that metaphor is timely, and it’s helpful if it’s visual. John Kennedy said “The torch has passed” Jesse Jackson said “Your patch…