Month: January 2007

A Tuesday bookish miscellany

If you’ve read either his debut novel Elantris, or his sophomore effort Mistborn, you will definitely be interested in Brandon Sanderson’s website, since it includes detailed annotations for both books, along with a blog and lots of other stuff including info and exceprts from forthcoming works. Here’s a link to a recent essay on why authors would prefer you to… Read more →

BOG VENUS vs. NAZI COCK-RING

It’s possible that some of you might have heard that Alan Moore (oft-mentioned here) wrote up a survey of 25000 years of porn for Arthur magazine‘s winter 2006 issue. Clearly this is related to, and has grown out of, Moore’s research into the history of pornography as part of his work on Lost Girls. Indeed, if you’ve read any of… Read more →

Objective (If Sexist) Fact.

I admit it, I am too insanely busy at work to generate much useful content this week. However, I do want to quickly share with you some simple facts, that might be helpful in settling a discussion that comes up time and time again. In the wake of the post-holiday sales, I acquired the four volumes of “the Ultimate James… Read more →

An Idea Distilled

The best editorial cartoons are the ones that take an entire position, argument, or notion and distill it down to a single image that captures the essence o the longer and more detailed version exactly. Take this one, for example. I’d say that pretty much captures it. That’s one of the selections at Time’s 2006 Cartoons of the Year list.… Read more →

Road Tapes: How did they survive?

What you’re looking at there is the answer to the question “How did they survive on road trips in the days before MP3 players that could carry a ridiculous number of hours of music?” Of course, it’s only the answer for that small subset of “they” who couldn’t be satisfied with the radio, and needed to have their own music… Read more →

Some favourites from 2006

I thought I’d start off this year with some omphaloskepsis and put up a quick list of some my favourite posts here from last year. These aren’t the best, or the most popular, just some that I particularly liked. My favourite in January was probably Who We Just Made Our Prime Minister…, wherein I, with the aid of some booze,… Read more →

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