London has swallowed up many millions of young men named Smith.

booklist.

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:32:07 GMT

Yanno. 2005, etc.

Jane Austen - Sense & Sensibility
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice
Donald Barthelme - Snow White
Donald Barthelme - The Dead Father
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Octavia E. Butler - Kindred
Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Suzy McKee Charnas - Walk to the End of the World
Suzy McKee Charnas - Motherlines
Suzy McKee Charnas - The Furies
Suzy McKee Charnas - The Conquerer's Child
Samuel R. Delaney - Dhalgren
John Gardner - On Becoming a Novelist
Gillian Gill - Nightingales : The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point
Yasunari Kawabata - House of the Sleeping Beauties
Katherine Kujo - Kink
C. S. Lewis - Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet
C. S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces
Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita In Tehran
Michelle Tea - The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America
Vivian Gussin Paley - The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter
Vivian Gussin Paley - A Child's Work : The Importance of Fantasy Play
Dave Pelzer - A Man Named Dave
Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
John Updike - The Centaur
John Updike - Rabbit, Run
Jonathan Weiner - The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Irvine Welsh - Filth
Irvine Welsh - Ecstasy : Three Tales of Chemical Romance
Irvine Welsh - Glue
Jack Womack - Elvissey
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf - The Lighthouse

Nickeled & Dimed

vid

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:56:00 GMT

How to tell if your country is slipping into despotism.

links

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:53:33 GMT

Museum hacking via podcast. Sometimes I love this planet.

Also, book sense.

books to read

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:37:01 GMT

A Smile As Big As the Moon" by Mike Kersjes.
"32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny" by Phillip Done
"Educating Esme" - Esme Raji Codell.

Kozol

Ruby Payne's *Fundamentals of Poverty*.

My grandfather's living with my parents now & he's hilarious.

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:40:29 GMT

We're watching Much Ado About Nothing. They all get nekkid and jump in a pool.

My grandpa goes, "Ohoho...buncha skinny-dippers, eh?"

I've never heard anyone actually say "oh ho ho" before. I thought it was only in old books.