Since 1994 when I bought it used, I’ve driven a 1992 Chevy Lumina. I got it with about 78,000 miles on it, and it last week flipped over 200,000. (Today, it’s about 220,218.) I’ve toyed over the years with buying a new or used car, but it never seemed the right time: not enough money, …
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Best paragraph I’ve read today
At the end of Sam Jardison’s list of Top 10 books on cults and religious extremists comes this rather startling plot summary: “10. The Bible Eyes of fire, seas of blood, rivers of tears, scarlet beasts, plagues of locusts, pealing trumpets, bottomless pits, mass murder and mayhem. Now this is a crazy book.”
Superman
Full-page scans of Superman’s first appearance in th 1938 Action Comics via Robot Wisdom
Poetry Daily: From "Epitaphs"
I like reading Poetry Daily (wish it had a proper RSS feed). I’ll sometimes print out poems I like and put them in my Poetry folder to pull out and marvel. This poem, by Abraham Sutzkever (translated by Jacqueline Osherow) stopped me in my tracks and reminded me of how poetry differs from prose, how …
Links – 28 Apr 2006
…accumulated since Easter… …compiled over the last few weeks, as you can tell from the Easterlinks… Flickr Photo Download: SearsWishbook.1983EC.P408Ad for a newfangled CD player from the Sears 1983 wishbookTricks of the Trade: Philosopher“How to win any argument”For those of us who saw “Thank You For Smoking” Career CalculusRecipeSource: French Fry Spam CasseroleTechnotheory.com – Wallet …
Le Petomane
Wikipedia’s entry on Le Petomane includes this wonderful paragraph: In the following decade Pujol tried to ‘refine’ and make his acts ‘gentler’; one of his favourite numbers became a rhyme about a farm which he himself composed, and which he punctuated with the usual anal renditions of the animals’ sounds. The climax of his act …
Alan Moore interviews
For a man described in many articles about him as a recluse, Uncle Alan sure granted lots of interviews, mainly in reaction to the V for Vendetta movie (which I enjoyed). Here are some links to interviews I collected. Keep in mind, when you read, that Vendetta artist David Loyd supported the film and was …
Custom bookplates
Shweet. And expen$ive.
Armchair library
Yep, OK, I’d like one of these in each room of my house, please.
Goethe
From the In Our Time newsletter on the Goethe discussion: The talk in the Green Room went on for quite a while. Not unexpectedly. Wefailed to include a great many of the aspects of Goethe that makes GoetheGoethe. On the programme itself I pointed out that we said nothingwhatsoever about his work as a scientist, …
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