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Every time period has its trappings. And while it may be impacted by its recency, it’s hard to imagine a historical period that carries more baggage than the 1960s. In her reflective quasi-memoir The Sixties, British author Jenny Diski sifts through some of the baggage but ultimately comes away dismayed and discouraged. At the outset, […] Bulletin Board Col. Andrea Thompson, a Harrisburg native, is now senior intelligence officer to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and is blogging about her experience. (HT Joel.) Interweb Stuff I Liked This Week Why Gen-Y Johnny Can’t Read Nonverbal Cues (Via.) Bookish Linkage I love the message to book banners in […] Today my wife and I officially become “empty nesters.” And one of the things that comes to mind as my youngest flies off this morning to UMass is The Beatles. That may strike some as a bit odd but, truly, it isn’t. My youngest daughter is the biggest Beatles fan I know. She got hooked […] Writing an adroit novel is a challenge any time, but especially if you’re going to throw in ninjas and mime troupes. Setting the story in a post-Apocalyptic world also requires more than a bit of imagination. Throwing in a twist readers don’t see coming but find entirely acceptable is a Chinese puzzle in and of […] Last week, I mentioned that following Led Zeppelin’s 1973 album, my musical interests were changing. I wrote that wholly unaware of the subject of this week’s Midweek Music Moment. By chance, it reveals just how much those interests changed over the course of a couple years. On August 31, 1973, Leon Russell released Hank Wilson’s […] |
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