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Weekend edition: 12-20

Bulletin Board

Don’t forget. Tuesday is Festivus!!!!!

Bookish Linkage

The National Book Critics Circle has revamped its web site and blog.

The Words Without Borders staff picks their favorites of the year.

What I called scifi v. lifi is evidently now a trope — which can also be reversed.

Nonbookish Linkage

Create your own NPR […]

Weekend Edition: 12-13

Random Observations

Why You Should Never Say Never, Chapter 1: After dissing them forever, I joined the CrackBerry world with the new Storm.

Why You Should Never Say Never, Chapter 2: Eighteen months after joining Facebook, I finally put stuff up there.

Bookish Linkage

What, men lie to impress women?!? Who would believe that? Of […]

Weekend Edition: 12-6

Random Observations

Wish I’d Said It (although I may have in other words): “If you accept — and I do — that freedom of speech is important, then you are going to have to defend the indefensible. That means you are going to be defending the right of people to read, or to write, or […]

Weekend Edition: 11-29

Random Observations

Far more accurate than Black Friday: National Day of Greed.

I know this may be getting repetitious but The Big Picture is undoubtedly and consistently one of the best sites on the internet. This week: Mumbai, the Space Station and the Congo. Go. Appreciate. Be awed.

Bookish Linkage

The NYT 100 notable books […]

Weekend Edition: 11-22

Random Observations

Where was I 45 years ago today? Sitting in a Catholic school second grade classroom.

Why aren’t I surprised? Although U.S. airlines claim to have rescinded or reduced their fuel surcharges because of the dramatic decline in gasoline prices, many of them simply “folded the amount of the surcharge into the airfare.”

Bookish […]