“Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cellphones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. Can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer?”
Harper Lee has broken [...]
Entries from June 2006
June 30, 2006
Harper Lee speaks
June 25, 2006
Harry Kewell’s hector protector
If you haven’t checked out 101 uses for a john howard yet then please do so. After Little Johnny’s staged Socceroos moment last week, use number 13 is quite timely.
June 25, 2006
Local librarian
In a very strange way (through an RSS feed for g*dsakes), I found out that one of the librarians at our local library passed away on Friday.
My son and I will miss her smiling face on our Wednesday visits to the library. My thoughts are with her family and colleagues.
June 23, 2006
Will you still love me tomorrow?
So, everyone else is doing a World Cup post of late, and after all my hoohaa before the Cup actually started, posting about the books I think everyone should read in the lead up, I have not really felt the need to post about the event. Until now.
I have a confession to make. I fell [...]
June 15, 2006
How much grief is too much?
How long do you listen to someone else’s grief? How long should we recognise their grief as placing them apart from the rest of us? Is some grief ‘better’ or ‘more worthy’ than others?
Why am I asking these weird-arsed questions?
I stumbled upon a mention of Anne Coulter’s new book and the claims she makes that [...]
June 15, 2006
Product placement reaches books
Well, it’s not the first but it’s still somewhat disturbing:
Running Press, publisher of a young-adult novel being released in September, has signed an unusual marketing deal with P&G’s makeup division Cover Girl; and although no money has exchanged hands, Cover Girl makeup is showcased in the book and, in return, the book will be promoted [...]
June 4, 2006
Has Douglas Coupland eaten himself?
No, not what the title suggests. (That may require the removal of several ribs). I refer rather to the latest Coupland, JPod. No, I haven’t read it, but does that place me in a spot less able to comment? No, I’m reacting purely to a review. And the bits they quote from the book. (Ok, [...]
June 2, 2006
Quick b**ch
This morning I noticed my cable modem wasn’t working. Well, I didn’t ‘notice’ it. I suddenly was thrown into a panic that my connection to the outside world was ripped from me. I tried the Windows solution (turned it on and off a couple of times), removed and replaced cords, all sorts. I think I [...]
June 2, 2006
Rap: a translation
Baffled by “b**tches and hoes”? Bamboozled by “back”? Then try Bitches and Prose: a rap in standard verse.
A selection:
Will an individual in the general vicinity with ready access to an automobile oblige me with two successive honks of the automobile’s horn? The sound, if correct, should resemble, in onomatopoeia, “toot toot” and “beep beep.”
and
I am [...]
