Bulletin Board
- If you happen to be in the Rapid City area tonight, the Rush hockey team is wearing Dr. Seuss jerseys at their game tonight, which includes a book drive
Worthwhile Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- What Are We Doing? (“Particularly frustrating to me is that despite all the effort (public and private) and the billions of dollars that are spent, people are hungry in America. We have literally thousands of federal programs and grants for practically every imagined and even unimagined purposes yet many people among us including large numbers of children remain hungry.”) [Look out, Joel. You’re starting to sound like me.]
- My Prescribed Life (“What I do know is that if I subscribed to popular notions of essentialized selfhood, my true identity would look like a feverishly anxious mass of phobias and self-loathing. Had I stuck with that girl, I’d be either in a padded cell or dead.”)
- How I Learned To Be OK With Feeling Sad (“Now, sometimes when I’m not sad and I think about sadness, that thought is accompanied by this startling one: I miss it.”)
Bookish Linkage
- Why terrorists destroy books
- A profile of the author of The Anarchist’s Cookbook, who spent more of his life trying to get it out of print
- How to read more than 40 books a year
- Does fiction have only six basic storylines?
- Bookish Lists: 5 of the best psychological thrillers; 9 books it’s worth dropping everything to read; the shortlist for the Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year
Nonboookish Linkage
- Can God lie?
- When your father is a serial killer
- The ultimate net-neutrality reading list
- How to stop websites from spying on you
- The attorney who was the Joe DiMaggio of the First Amendment
If I were human I believe my response would be “go to hell.”
Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
