Killer Kowalski has gone the way of all rasslin’ flesh, at age 81.
Look at the tail on Haley’s Comet!
Aug 31, ’08
7:15 AM
This is a family blog, so I’m not going to quote my favorite passage from this NYPost review of Boys Will be Boys, Jeff Pearlman’s history of the Dallas Cowboys of the early ’90s. But you really need to read it, regardless of whether you like football. Trust me; you’ll laugh in shock when you [...]
The Deadliest Pick
Aug 30, ’08
10:24 PM
I don’t venture into politics too often on this blog, but here’s my prediction for the Sarah Palin effect: it backfires on McCain because women will actually want to vote against her the more their husbands point out how hot she is.
Unrequired Reading: Aug. 29, 2008
Aug 29, ’08
5:45 AM
Long weekend, dear American readers! Better fill it up with lots of oddball links! Just click more!
Dog days
Aug 28, ’08
3:21 PM
Next month will be pretty hectic and I have a ton of vacation time piled up. So, since we’re not going anywhere for Labor Day weekend, and my Friday office hours are only 8am-1pm, I decided to take today off from work. It’s been a pretty lazy day, except for going out to buy a [...]
Sunshine
Aug 27, ’08
9:55 AM
What’s in the Arts+ section of The Official Newspaper of Gil Roth today? a review of two biographies of Han van Meegeren, the famous Dutch forger of paintings, a review of Richard Todd’s essays on authenticity (nice complement/contrast to the forgery review), a review of a biography of Jacob Riis, the man who chronicled the [...]
Don’t hide my rawhide!
Aug 26, ’08
4:04 PM
For more than five months, Rufus has been a pretty awesome dog. Sure, he has little eccentricities, but they’re nothing compared to mine, even if I don’t treat my stuffed animals as badly as he treats his. Anyway, last night, we gave him a new rawhide. Over the next hour, he proceeded to devour it [...]
Life’s work
Aug 26, ’08
7:48 AM
Earlier this year, I had variations of the following e-mail exchange with several NYC literary figures I know: GIL: Just wondering: do you know Robert Caro? AUTHOR/WRITER: By acquaintance. Why? GIL: Would you say he’s in good health? A/W: Not sure. What’s up? Have you heard something? GIL: No. It’s just that, well, I loved [...]
Monday Morning Montaigne: An Apology for Raymond Sebond, Take 2
Aug 25, ’08
11:35 AM
Wow. This Apology for Raymond Sebond continues to flummox me. Last week, I wrote about the nature of the Apology and “covered” pages 387-435 of the Everyman’s translation of the essays. This week, I only managed to read another 50 pages, since I was busy with work and a much more entertaining book called When [...]
What It Is: 8/25/08
Aug 25, ’08
5:00 AM
What I’m reading: I finished When Genius Failed on Sunday, and am slowly continuing Montaigne’s Essays. Oh, and I picked up the third installment of Richard Sala’s comic, Delphine. Guess I better reread the first two parts. What I’m listening to: The Cosmic Game, by the Thievery Corporation What I’m watching: Finished up the fourth [...]
