Bulletin Board
- Tomorrow is the start of Banned Books Week. Because I am underwater at work and have scheduled a life-altering event next week, I will not have my weeklong posts devoted to the topic this year.
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- 50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters (“Five decades after its debut, not a day goes by that someone isn’t using ‘The Jetsons’ as a way to talk about the fantastic technological advancements we’re seeing today. Or conversely, evidence of so many futuristic promises that remain unfulfilled.”) (via)
- On Falling Apart (“The week after my 30th birthday, my best friend had me committed to a psych ward.”) (via)
- Blasphemy: an indispensable human right (“What this idea really bespeaks is a terror that most faiths contain at their core: that serious, skeptical, dispassionate evaluations of their specific claims will reveal them to be indefensible, hollow and easily debunked.”) (via)
Blog Headlines of the Week
- On Nature Walks, Anal Probes, and Shooting Sprees (Or, How I Spent My Summer Vacation)
- Do Eunuchs Live Longer Or Does It Just Feel Longer?
Bookish Linkage
- Exploring the overlap between baseball and literature
- The best books on the Beatles
- The University of Utah has site called Eclipse, “a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century.” (via)
- Bizarre Medieval marginalia
Nonbookish Linkage
- Why politicians lie: because they can
- I’m a dog lover but you gotta give some points for creativity to the Pennsylvania couple arrested for selling their neighbor’s dog on Craigslist
The clouds are like headlines
On a new front page sky
Tom Waits, “Shiver My Timbers,”
The Heart of Saturday Night
