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Audiobooks are my e-books. … Audiobooks take the content from a novel and turn it into something else – something I can use when I can’t read a novel. That’s what these e-book readers seem to miss. I want to search text, transform it, cut and paste it, and listen to it. If I want …
Thanksgiving at Sing Sing
One hundred years ago: “Sing Sing Prisoners Merry, Convicts Give a Minstrel and Vaudeville Entertainment,” New York Times, November 29, 1907 Happy Thanksgiving to all! TagsSing Sing, Thanksgiving Thanksgiving at Sing Sing
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving
All Winners Comics #2
All Winners Comics #2All Winners Comics #2
Ethiopian Manuscripts
Alwan Codex 2 – Psalter – early 20th century Left: Alwan Codex 2; Right: Alwan Codex 28 Alwan Codex 28 – Commentary on the Praises ofMary and Gate of Light, Amharic – 20th century. Alwan Codex 27 – Psalter – 19th/20th centuries Eliza Codex 17 – Gospel of John; Horologium of Abba Giyorgisfor the night …
Graffiti
On the 57th Street side of 57th Street Books, Hyde Park, Chicago: (Can someone explain the joke?) Tagsgraffiti, Hyde Park Graffiti
Random Doodles
Random Doodles
Talk to the face
An editorial in a college newspaper recently suggested that college faculty join Facebook as a way to show their desire “to connect with” students. The editors gamely suggest academic benefits: chances to create assignments that focus on what students are “already interested in” and to find “examples” (of what?) that students will recognize. I’m always …
Oh My God!
Diary won the National Book Award!!!! Sherman accepting the award in NYC last night: Sherman and I exchanged quick emails last night. Me: “I’m so happy and proud! You must be out of your mind!!!” Sherman: “And to you too crazy crazy crazy” Wow!! Oh My God!