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 →
Category Archives: Books
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 →
Bike Pron
Velo: Bicycle Culture and Design
More redcoats
“To the British rank-and-file there was nothing novel about being a solider. The harsh life was their way of life. They carried themselves like soldiers. They had rules, regulations, and Continue Reading →
More Football Stuff…
The PATH to Red Bull Arena – Great advertisement for PATH (Port Authority of New York & New Jersey). GRINGOS AT THE GATE: Soccer and the US Mexico Divide – Continue Reading →
On my desk…
I now have in my possession all three books…although the last was an article in Horizon (May 1960, Volume II, No. 5) by Ada Louise Huxtable. Imagineers said that when Continue Reading →
On a lark (or paying tribute to a stranger)
I purchased a slightly worn copy of The Heart of Our Cities by Victor Gruen from Amazon. The book shipped from Mt. Pleasant and was from the library of Ralph Continue Reading →