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Bulletin Board It’s Jazz Appreciation Month. Go forth and celebrate. Bookish Linkage Toni Morrison’s A Mercy won the annual Tournament of Books, besting City of Refuge in the finals. The six finalists for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize have been announced. The books, none of which I’ve had a chance to read, are from Columbia, […] Random Observations Good news, bad news. My youngest daughter found out this morning she got accepted at the college to which she is probably most wants to go. The bad news is tuition is $40,000+ annually. Wednesday night’s performance by The Blue Note 7 is already a strong candidate for concert of the year. A […] Random Observations To the extent I have heroes today, here’s two of them: Bruce and Jon. While I realize Google is intent on taking over the interweb, I’ve started playing with its Chrome browser and it is fair competition for Firefox. Chrome, though, really needs to follow Firefox’s extensions concept and, reportedly, a new beta […] Bulletin Board Congrats to Terry Woster for the commemoration by the state House of Representatives honoring him for his contributions to the state. Among other things, it accurately recognizes his “healthy cynicism” and that he is “a rural Renaissance Man.” A note to fellow WordPress users: Don’t be surprised if assholes with an IP address […] Bookish Linkage After a December police raid on the organization that helped with much of the research, a Russian publisher has backed out of publishing The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, one of my favorite books of 2007. Even though it got rid of its standalone book section, the LA Times continues its annual […] |
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