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Category Archives: Ephemera

Even Victoria Beckham reads

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 a Hollywood book club. A source tells the Daily Star:
“When Victoria told Katie Holmes about a […]

My Son’s Jungle Book Birthday Party

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 foamcore cutouts of the Jungle Book
characters and place them around the house. We even […]

You had me at Victorian gent in the future

My favorite blog, Claw of The Conciliator, is on hiatus. Silver lining: I get to troll the archives for hidden gems.
Here’s one: An awesome sci-fi snippet from a non-existent novel about a “Victorian gent who is flung into the far future to discover syncretist Rastafarians battling an extra-galatic threat.”
Read Break that stone.

Tangram Shelves

The Tangram is an old Chinese puzzle game where one makes simple images out of very simple geometrical shapes. It’s an old, old game. The idea of putting books on shelves, one of my many worries, is not only older, of course, but also a puzzle. As in, where am I going to put all […]

Bob Dylan and Dr. Seuss

“Is this for real?” That’s the first thing I said after staring in dumbfounded silence at my computer monitor for a full 30 seconds. Turn your speakers up for Dylan Hears a Who.
via Petrona.