Bulletin Board
- Although I doubt he or she is reading this, I just wanted to tell the asshat in Provo, Utah, who tries to hack the site several times a day that using different IP addresses ain’t gonna help. There’s also a dickwad in KC who’s not quite so pesistent.
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Easeful death (“Death is a fearful thing, but it is the pain of life that leaves many ill people in despair.”)
- Because War is a Form of Language (“[Israel and Hamas] are pretending not to talk to each other. All the while, they’re communicating back and forth with weapons that have no purpose other than signification.”)
Arrest of the Week
- A Connecticut man was arrested after stabbing a watermelon with a butcher knife and leaving it in the kitchen for his wife to see
Bookish Linkage
- Balanced Bibliophilocy seems to make a helluva lot of sense
- Reading through someone else’s eyes
- If books could think
- Can books cross borders?
- The lure of literary time travel
- Bookish Lists: A nonfiction tour of the 50 states; a book for each of the 7 deadly sins; 5 famous chiuldren’s books that are turning 50; 50 excellent fabulist books; 6 top books on surveillance; a summer reading list for adults; 10 classic Victorian novels; 10 great books for the centennial of World War I; top 10 crime novels of the summer (at least in Britain)
Nonbookish Linkage
- Oh no, I might not exist
- But everyone knows a hockey net is much bigger than a golf cup
- An etymological review of weird
- Speaking of which, Hollow Earth theories stretch across the centuries
I turned myself to face me
But I’ve never caught a glimpse
David Bowie, “Changes,” Changesbowie
