My first impression after reading through the first third of the book is that Melville is underrated for his sense of humor. I don’t remember the funny parts, and nobody seems to talk about the book in that way. At least none of my English teachers.
Now at this point I can’t […]
Only 5 years late I got around to renting first season of the Sopranos to see what all the fuss was about. Actually Patty saw some episodes with her friends and wanted to see more. We got them from Netflix back in October and just got around to watching them at Ocean Shores. […]
Warren Ellis is closing down Die Puny Humans and moving things to WarrenEllis.com. More details on DiePunyHumans.com.
End of an era for me (era seems the wrong word here, but end of phase or time period or etc sounded more wrong). Die Puny Humans was one of the first blogs I read on a […]
I skipped the obligatory introduction at the front of my edition of Moby-Dick. I expect to run acros a book in the future where the introduction is longer than the book it is introducing.
To set the record straight, I am reading the Penguin Classics version, with Introduction by Andrew Delbanco and Explanatory Commentary […]
Everybody is doing the list thing (Stereogum, Steven Shaviro, KEXP DJs to link to a few) given the time of year. And as a huge fan of lists, especially at work, I decided to pull together my own list of Top Albums for 2004.
Now this is my list, so it enslaved to […]
Last week, I struggled to figure out what books to bring with me to Ocean Shores for the holiday get away. I was and still am about 180 pages from the end of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell , but I wanted to savor that one a bit before finishing and I wanted something […]
I have a bunch of things to write now that I am back from Ocean Shores, but I am going to start with an easy one - Fox’s new series House.
Last night, our last night Ocean Shores, we hunkered down on the couch to eat some lovely beef stew, drink some nice red wine […]
I got some inspiration the other night to write a quick holiday story (perhaps it was the Red Bull I drank). You can read it or download it here: Working Christmas Eve, Again (it’s a small 8k text file).
Treat the story like you would a Christmas cookie. It is to […]
I actually Michael Lewis’s Moneyball on the plane on the way back east earlier this month, but being a lazy sod I just got around to writing up my review.
To start off, this book was recommended to me by my boss. Normally work books are about execution, time management and other things like that, […]
