Blogroll

Weekend Edition: 11-6

Bulletin Board

Ken Blanchard has launched JazzNoteNSU, a “Jazz Collector’s station devoted chiefly to Hard Bop & Avant Garde Jazz,” on Live365. The first program is devoted to music by members of the first two Miles Davis quintets.

Blog Headline of the Week

Phone books: Facebook 0.01

Bookish Linkage

Just say no to NaNoWriMo. Of […]

Friday Follies 2.36

Canadian lawyer “considering class action suit for moose-car crash victims.” (via)

“A Florida man who says he was injured from eating the leaves of a grilled artichoke has filed a lawsuit that may test whether a restaurant has a duty to explain to patrons how to eat unfamiliar food items.”

Sorry, judge, that $994,000 in […]

Brief reflections on Life (Keith Richards’, not mine)

To be honest, I was surprised at the length of Keith Richards’ autobiography, Life. And, all in all, it is far from an insipid celebrity memoir. To the contrary, it provides interesting insight into the guitarist’s life and some of the exaggerated tales of his life. It does ramble a bit but there’s far more […]

November Bibliolust

Given my recent bookstore swing in Eastern Massachusetts, I actually think the lust list for this month is fairly reasonable. After all, it’s difficult to wander through so many bookstores without generating an immense amount of booklust. Making it even better, three of the four books are available from the library.

Man in the Woods, […]

Book Review: Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War by Dennis C. Pope

Whether cast in terms of manifest destiny or, more crudely, “the Indian problem,” at its core the conflict between white and Native Americans was a clash of cultures. While not necessarily the centerpiece, Dakota Territory was frequently a stage upon which it played out. Despite the fact it focuses on a narrow slice of the […]