I’ve been asked to point folks toward <a href=”http://www.thecwa.co.uk/forum/”_blank”>this link</a>. Discuss, but please – no cussing or ad hominen attacks.
Meanwhile, it feels paradoxical to post a link to this
<a href=” http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google “>article</a>, but it confirmed many things going through my head when I decided to move away from the Internet. I read it in the magazine, however, and only let my attention drift two or three times.
The previous thread ended up with some very good reading recommendations. My recent reads include: THE KNITTING CIRCLE, Ann Hood; COMFORT, Ann Hood; WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES, David Sedaris; and THE GREAT MAN, Kate Christensen. Now in the on-deck circle: WHEN WE WERE Bad, Charlotte Mendelson; THE GIVEN DAY, Dennis Lehane; and AWESOME, Jack Pendarvis. (Yes, Jack, I finally found it!) I also plan to read WHEN A CROCODILE EATS THE SUN.
ETA to fix title of Mendelson book and spelling of her last name. This is what happens when I write from memory.
Really loved The Great Man. It defied your expectations at every turn.
The article on Google brings to mind some <a href=http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=6546″ target=”-blank”>librarian humor</a>.
I enjoyed CJ Box’s BLUE HEAVEN, his ‘stand alone’.
And I greatly enjoyed the piece you had in this past weekend’s WSJ. (There are better photos of you!) My wife and I have also collected folk art, like animalitos, from Mexico and central america, although not at your level. Does the check for the WSJ article go to more folk art?
I enjoyed the article too but don’t remember the picture. The pictures of the art were cool though.
I used to love the Visionary Arts Museum which had opened not too terribly long before I moved from Baltimore. I’ve been afraid to check on it since for fear that it would have closed. (I hate to be such a pessimist but when I really like someplace, it’s usually the kiss of death).
Diane, the Visionary Arts Museum is still going strong and better than ever. For those of you coming to Bucheron ( or any other time), it’s a must see and very close to the Inner Harbor.
Laura
You did not photo fat!!!!!
But it was a crappy photo and no where near the great glam photo on ATTF. (My favorite is you with the greyhound and the chuck taylors)
Kevin,
Yes, I accepted the assignment knowing it would fall into the category of “odd checks.” But was the photo so bad? I saw it on a PDF and all I noticed was that I didn’t photograph fat, and that’s all I care about.
“the Visionary Arts Museum is still going strong and better than ever.”
Excellent news-thank you!
The glam photos always involve a lot of re-touching, which newspaper photographers don’t (and shouldn’t) do.
I don’t photograph well, but I try to spare photographers the “I hate having my picture taken” complaint.
Reading recommendations: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Call of the Wild; White Fang; A Tale of Two Cities. These 4 titles are what the young folks and my wife and I are reading � or re-reading � as their summer vacation from school unfolds. Last week I read Huck Finn (just as the Big River was re-asserting itself in Iowa and Missouri and Illinois) and was taken aback at just how cruel the book is, even when it is funny; one laughs out loud despite oneself, here and there. (The Wire has nothing on Huck Finn, when it comes to cruelty. Come to think of it, a David Simon-lead adaptation and update of that American story would be interesting�maybe the New Orleans project will echo it a bit)
Anyway, now I�m into Call of the Wild, and my son is being pulled down the Mississippi, and my daughter is amidst the Two Cities; proving (anecdotally, anyway) that Google and the internet might satisfy one�s informational wanderlust, but books ain�t dead yet!
And btw, I�ve never seen a bad picture of you. If anything, glam shots of anyone rate lower with me, because they are colder, and more remote (then again, that may be The Call of the Wild affecting my consciousness)
I finally picked up Chabon’s YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION and it’s great! He’s a masterful writer and I think I’m getting many of the jokes, but not being Jewish, I’m probably at a disadvantage. Some of his sentences are to die for.