Weekend Edition: 2-11

Bulletin Board

• Check out the new South Dakota Digital Archives.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

• Daddy Issues (Elderschadenfreude — “the secret pleasure of hearing about aging parents that are even more impossible than yours.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

• Should texting be banned while legislating?

Blog Line of the Week

• “Nothing says love like exploitation.”

Bookish Linkage

• What do war bestsellers say about society?
• The first six issues of Amazing Stories, the first magazine devoted to SF, are available online. (via)
• The inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year Award for the “angriest, funniest, most trenchant” book review published in the last year goes to Adam Mars-Jones.
• An essential “postmodern” reading list. (I am not surprised I haven’t read any of them.)

Nonbookish Linkage

• Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show was actually a Satanic ritual.
• Shit My Students Write is worth checking out. An example: “What that pervious statement means is that it means what it means.”
• Nice things to say about Attilla the Hun
• Atheism in America (via)
• What jobs were available in the medieval job market? (via)
• When did the middle finger become offensive? (via)

Anne Sexton, “Old”