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Bestselling Comics (2006) #1205
Bestselling Comics (2006) #1205Bestselling Comics (2006) #1205
A Vegan/Aerobicizer Hits the Wall
I ran into a guy at the gym whom I had not seen for a couple of months, maybe more. He was in the gym hours on end (when I used to see him) doing aerobics. He did so much treadmill work that he constantly limped and had a brace on his foot, sometimes on …
Book of the week: Soon I Will Be Invincible
If, like me, you are a fan of the implausibly best show on network television, Heroes, or if you just like fun writing, run don’t walk to Amazon to buy Soon I Will Be Invincible, a novel by Austin Grossman. An unlikely cross between a spoof and a real novel, the book alternatives between the …
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Yet another blog-reading refactoring
I started RSS-reading with Bloglines and, though it still has some features I like, I moved to Google Reader last year and have been pretty satisfied with it. What’s been harder has been managing my blog diet, the number of feeds I read, and the general problems of absorbing so much ephemera. Blog reading takes …
Adventure Comics #310
Adventure Comics #310Adventure Comics #310
JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG
James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) drew the same way that he lived: brash and arrogant. Flagg’s confidence was understandable. He started his career at the moment when improvements in the printing process and the rise of popular magazines created a huge market for his drawing skills. Illustrators such as Flagg became national celebrities, and he basked …
Colin Roberts comments on Back from Holiday
Mark, I read your leader on the above with interest. It reminded me of the following experience: I once worked for a large Insurance company. My boss was a manager who came back off holiday to an inbox of several hundred e-mails. He deleted them all and then sent a mail to everyone in the …
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Out of This World
Decluttering my workspace and reading about the Collyer brothers led me to a 1953 book by Helen Worden Erskine, Out of This World (thanks, library). Erskine was a New York reporter who seems to have started working in the mid-1920s. She developed a niche as a chronicler of the lives of urban recluses and in …
Cappadocia
Cappadocia in central Turkey is highly recommended. Imagine the Moab if it had been inhabited for 4000 years by a succession of Hittites, Christians fleeing Romans and Persians, Greeks and Turks and you have some idea. These faerie chimneys exist in the thousands and some are still inhabited. One fellow showed me around his chimney …
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