Resplendent
The blogger with many visions™ is thawing. I just finished The Fighting Temeraire by Sam Willis. This book is more than a dry historical reprint; it is a graphic re-telling Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Books
As true…
…today and it was then. “The problem was that Mumford, along with many other “progressives,” had a rather inflated sense of self-importance.” – James Mauro, Twilight at the World of Continue Reading →
Weekend 153.1
Just finished Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age and this excerpt from Lady Gaga and the death of sex seems apropos. Generation Continue Reading →
Weekend 152.1
The illustration is from Here Is New York City by Susan Elizabeth Lyman and Dorothy W. Furman. It was published in 1962 and illustrated by Mary Royt and George Buctel.
Weekend 150.0
“In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to Continue Reading →
Weekend 148.4 (Holiday Perils)
“According to William Knox, one of Germain’s undersecretaries, his lordship was on his way to the country when he stopped by the office to sign his mail and was reminded Continue Reading →
Weekend 148.2
(1) The London Cyclist Blog (2) A Week at the Airport (Vintage International Original) (3) The Sunbeam 1000 HP Mystery, or “The Slug”, Land Speed Record Car from Schylling. The Continue Reading →
Weekend 147.0
(1) ‘I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before. Probably a permanent holiday: I don’t expect I shall return. In fact, I Continue Reading →
Weekend 140.1
The ideal Limestone Roof convention… “He was also somewhat familiar with Central Florida, for he had traveled to the Tampa area with another Disney official, Robert Gurr*, in October of Continue Reading →
Waning trust…
Mead’s argument in God and Gold is bunk because it assumes the public has trust in government. “Historian Niall Ferguson estimates that the British national debt as a percentage of Continue Reading →