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Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I got a kick out of this Steve Sailer piece on the Niall Ferguson-John Maynard Keynes controversy. Hoping to eventually pick up this new release from TASCHEN. I love TASCHEN. I just wish I wasn’t too much of … Continue reading
Vocabulary Building Word of the Day
Fenster writes: Here’s something I did not know. The word “gunsel” has two meanings. In its most common slang usage, it refers to a criminal carrying a gun. But in earlier convict slang, the word had a quite different meaning: … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Movies
Tagged gunsel, Ryan Gosling, vocabulary
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“I Was Looking for a Street”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: As the quote I posted a few days ago implied, I just read the first volume of crime writer Charles Willeford’s memoirs. It might be one of the best things I’ve ever read. The book covers the … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiography, Charles Willeford, Great Depression, Los Angeles, memoirs
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Quote of the Day
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Thinking, when you first try it, is very difficult. I had never tried to think before, seriously, I mean, and I didn’t quite know how to go about the process. Most people, under ordinary circumstances, living with … Continue reading
Quote of the Day
Blowhard, Esq. writes: “A few miles from here a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch above a mere; the overhanging bank is a maze of tree-roots mirrored in its surface. At night there, something uncanny happens: the water burns. And … Continue reading
Quote of the Day
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Sometimes at pagan shrines they vowed offerings to idols, swore oaths that the killer of souls might come to their aid and save the people. That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglo-Saxons, literature, poetry, Sutton Hoo ship burial, Vikings
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Linkage
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Given the play it receives in the media and on Facebook, it might surprise you to know that, according to Gallup, around 4% of Americans think gun control is the most important issue facing the country. Related. … Continue reading
The Sweet Revenge of Kim Dotcom
epiminondas writes: We all know how Hollywood and the big publishing houses control the copyright laws and their enforcement. What we didn’t know about was the blowback from that domination… http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/17/inside-mega-the-second-coming-of-kim-dotcom/
“In the Bedroom”
Paleo Retiree writes: I hated this very literary 2001 vigilante picture, directed by Todd Field from a story by Andre Dubus. It’s immaculate and meticulous; full of grief, bleakness and quiet; and bristling with mythic overtones and unexpressed (but broadly … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Dubus, literature, movies, Sissy Spacek, Todd Field
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A New Counterculture?
Paleo Retiree writes: I’ve been arguing for a while (with friends and on Facebook) what John Derbyshire is implicitly semi-arguing in his provocative new piece at Taki’s Magazine — that the alt-Right is today’s counterculture. In the way it quarrels … Continue reading
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