Monthly Archives: March 2007

The five most popular posts from March, according to you, my loyal readers. This month my funny drawings, a poor analogy that gave me a chance to talk about rock and roll, and my credulity take the top spots. Thanks … Continue reading →

A California company named OCTAVO has been scanning the world’s greatest and rarest books for the last decade and offering them for sale on a beefed up CD with translations, annotations, hyperlinks and commentary. Sort of a digital preservationist society. … Continue reading →

Nineteen year old internet entrepreneur and author (I was making pizza at Chicken Chef when I was nineteen) Ben Casnocha reveals how he thinks about books: First, we all learn and input information differently. For me, visually reading words is … Continue reading →

N.B. I was publishing with blogger when I wrote this post and now it’s not at all accurate. Read at your own peril! Prompted by a post at Myrtias here is an explanation, tour and review of the Upper Fort … Continue reading →

I can’t help myself. I try not to be mean and snarky but – but – but just read this: Victoria Beckham, who just last summer admitted she had never read a book in her life, is allegedly starting up … Continue reading →

My son turned three on Friday. When we asked him earlier in the month what kind of party he would like, Jungle Book or dinosaur (his two obsessions), he chose the Jungle Book. My wife decided we should make large … Continue reading →

Inspired by the heavy metal covers that frightened me in my youth: The Iron-veiled Moses. It’s not too obvious that while I love the Pentateuch I find it very weird, is it?

One of the many things I learned from reading Wisdom from the Batcave is the origin of the word Rabbi. Rabbi Friedman explains: The Hebrew word “rav“, from which the English equivalent “rabbi” is derived, is etymologically related to another … Continue reading →

I once was a teenager with aspirations of becoming a comics artist. Above my drawing table, against the wall I would stare at blankly when I didn’t know how to draw what I didn’t want to have to draw, was … Continue reading →

From an interview published in published in Fanzing (The Independent Online DC Comics Fan Magazine), where Maggin claims he’s studying the Kabbala so he can learn how to fly, here’s Superman writer Elliot S! Maggin on Martin Buber’s I and … Continue reading →