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Friday Follies 1.0

Welcome to the first installment of a new feature which will appear occasionally, hopefully once or twice a month. It’s a compilation of things I’ve come across that struck me as inane, frivolous, asinine or any combination of similar adjectives. Many will be legal related, thanks in part to some already existing blogs that keep […]

Banned Books Week linkage

As we hit the middle of Banned Books Week, here’s a round-up of various items related to it:

Take the Banned Books Quiz. I scored 8 out of 13, which prompted the following response: “Rather ignorant, I’m afraid. You’re clearly reading in slavish obedience to the censors. Are you going to be voting for Sarah […]

Mixed marginalia

Watching the Olympics helped keep me from the “publish” button on a political related post over the weekend but also from a few other things. The relatively lengthy political post now appears simply as one of the items below rather than a full blown rant.

One of the things I missed was that Michael Chabon’s […]

Weekend marginalia

It’s just been too nice to spend time staring at a computer screen so linkage has been sparse here lately. But there’s been various, perhaps rather eclectic, items recently I thought worth passing along:

One thing that didn’t make me happy this week was learning that the first major art gallery exhibit by Bob Dylan […]

How to combat the announcer gap

Because the National Endowment for the Arts believes the number of working writers and authors in South Dakota dropped from 222 in 1990 to 190 in 2000, the NYT book blog asks, “Who is killing the writers of South Dakota?” But perhaps the real question is, “Who’s killing the announcers of South Dakota?”

According to […]