OK, so Your Humble Blogger read Trading Spaces: Color! (Des Moines: Meredith Books 2003) and Trading Spaces: Make It Yours! (Des Moines: Meredith Books 2003). Wanna make something of it? [my Best Reader: I could make a slipcover, or a…
Your Humble Blogger was sufficiently inspired by the Ian Frazier piece in The Best American Essays 2003 to pick up Dating Your Mom (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1986) at the library. This was actually a mistake; his stuff…
Somehow, Your Humble Blogger missed this news about the American occupation shutting down a weekly newspaper in Baghdad. Shutting down a newspaper. Now, I understand that ‘newspaper’ is a pretty tough term to apply to Al Hawza, which seems to…
Your Humble Blogger doesn’t have a blogroll, nor need one, I think. But the news that The Invisible Adjunct is hanging up the old keyboard reminds me that I’ve been meaning to note down a few blogs I read and…
OK, so UCSF outsources its medical transcription business. That’s not a big deal, right? Sure, they send confidential patient information over the internet, but it’s to a reputable company, right? So, it’s not terribly irresponsible. Right? Of course, that reputable…
Your Humble Blogger heard good things about Inkheart, and the first chapter was terrific, so it’ll be our new Bedtime Book. Which means we won’t even start it for months, and won’t finish it for a while after that. In…
I suppose, to maintain my status as an actual blog, I should link to things, now and then. So: The NYT reports that Antigua and Barbado have gained a ruling from the WTO against a US law which prohibits US…
Your Humble Blogger has already mentioned The Best American Essays 2003, which I have now finished. It’s hard to do a report on two dozen essays, most of which have tremendous strengths and flaws. Was the shortest essay the best?…
It’s been a couple of weeks since Your Humble Blogger left off talking about Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. We had talked about the Law of the Few and the Stickiness Factor, so we’re up to the Power of Context….
How could NPR sack Bob Edwards? That’s like firing morning! Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….