CELEBRATING DIGITAL LIBRARIES
THE WORLD’S OLDEST digital library, Project Gutenberg, was founded in 1971. We’re not far from celebrating the half-century anniversary of this ambitious effort to make the world’s literature accessible online. … Continue reading
TESLA TIDBITS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE FOUND Teslas inexplicable stopping at Burger Kings and the automaker’s stock doubling. (I hasten to add, there’s no obvious causal relationship in this.) Today, in Part 2, Automotive … Continue reading
TESLA TIDBITS PART 1
I’VE BEEN READING a lot recently about Tesla and its mercurial Elon Musk. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits gleaned from Automotive News, July 13, … Continue reading
LRB TIDBITS
I’M ENJOYING MY most recent semi-monthly London Review of Books, July 30, 2020. Though having read only the first five of its tabloid-size pages, I’ve gleaned several tidbits worth sharing … Continue reading
WHO DOTH DUNIT PART 2
YESTERDAY’S WHO DOTH DUNITS had Shakespeare’s Italian crime families and cross-dressing lawyers. Today, there’s a rich British guy and his trio of daughters, two bad, one not; and a whole … Continue reading
WHO DOTH DUNIT PART 1
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IS right up there with Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, and Dashiell Hammett in writing memorable crime fiction. Here are examples, acknowledging inspiration from Dwyer Murphy’s CrimeReads piece on … Continue reading
LAISSEZ LES BONS PLATS ROULER!
MAQUE CHOUX is French, literally “fake cabbage,” but in Cajun it describes a variation on succotash: a chunky corn stew with onions, bell peppers, hot peppers, garlic, and maybe tomatoes, … Continue reading
DECO FLICKS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we enjoyed the Art Deco settings of a 1924 French sci-fi flick and a 1929 celebration of Broadway. Today in Part 2, there’s an hotel saga, … Continue reading
DECO FLICKS PART 1
THE TERM “ART FILM” means different things to different people, but what I have in mind here is Art Deco in movies of the 1920s and 1930s. My primary source … Continue reading
TO THE HARE, WITH LOVE
THE JULY 2, 2020, ISSUE of London Review of Books offers Katherine Rundell’s ”Consider the Hare.” This essay is something of a love letter to Lepus europaeus: “In their long-limbed … Continue reading
