Book Review: Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain In Your Neighborhood?
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] One of the commonalities of being on television is that people will write you lots of letters. One of the rarities, however, is that the person written to will personally reply to every letter. As always, Fred…
Corpophilia: The Raid
OnImage by wallyg via Flickr “Mr. Grey?” “Yes, Pinkerton?” “I’ve got a little bit of bad news.” “What’s that?” “We’ve just been raided.” “What?” “We’ve just been raided.”
Book Review: The Ten Cent Plague
OnCover via Amazon [Purchase Book] David Hadju’s new book is about the history of censorship of comics, from the initial appearance of newspaper strips to the creation of the Comics Code in 1954 (and the fallout coming shortly after). Looking at the…
Doing A Brody
OnWhen Warren mentioned the shared dislike he and DFW had for The Professional Smile, I did not realize that this was specifically in the context of cruise ships, and that DFW had, in fact, taken a cruise run by the same company[1]…
A David Foster Wallace Style-Parody in Three Drafts, with Annotations
OnImage via Wikipedia The Howling Fantods recently did a contest to win the new book about David Foster Wallace. The rules said entrants had to write a 400-word (!) parody of David Foster Wallace’s style, and this piece had to include a…
David Foster Wallace, RIP
OnThe man I considered the greatest living American Author, David Foster Wallace, killed himself yesterday, Friday September 12th. His wife found his body after he hanged himself. September 12th is not a good day — it’s also the day Johnny Cash died….
Book Review: Tuva Or Bust!
On[Purchase Book] I think for most geeks, Richard Feynman is a bit of a hero. A Nobel-winning physicist who had a complete and infectious desire for knowledge in all its forms and a desire to share that knowledge with anyone who was…