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Jason Epstein on the Future of Publishing
Former Random honcho and current publishing entrepreneur Jason Epstein has some interesting musings on the future of publishing, courtesy of The New York Review of Books. Here’s a video of Epstein’s neato print-on-demand device, the Espresso Book Machine.
Continue reading...Great Whites more endangered than tigers
Monday, February 22, 2010
After their numbers have dropped 90% in the last twenty years, great white sharks are now more endangered than tigers, a prominent marine biologist says. Which raises the question: just who is the remorseless killing machine around here?
Continue reading...Mike’s new favorite thing
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Dragonfruit. Yes, dragonfruit.
Continue reading...White sharks in Santa Monica Bay!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
I gotta say, this cheered me up no end; it’s a photo snapped by a local surfer last weekend. I love me some white sharks, and to know that at least one ten-footer is cruising around (and leaping into the air!) less than a mile from where I am typing this makes me QUITE EXCITED!!!! [...]
Continue reading...Talk: JFK and the Unspeakable
Saturday, June 6, 2009
This is a talk by Jim Douglass, a peace activist and the author of the book “JFK and the Unspeakable.” Perhaps I will get a copy for my birthday. From everything I have read about “Unspeakable,” I think it gets closest to explaining why I’ve always been fascinated with the JFK assassination (from the age [...]
Continue reading...Interesting video (JFK and Vietnam)
Saturday, June 6, 2009
For those (like my commenter) who desire a more conclusive discussion, one can be found in James K. Galbraith’s article here.
Continue reading...Michael Caine
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Michael Caine is quintessential Sixties cool, and I love him (and the National Health glasses he wore in The Ipcress File). Here’s a brief but interesting interview from New York magazine. Included is John Wayne’s acting advice, and why famous people should never wear suede shoes.
Continue reading...In Heaven Everything Is Fine
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
I’ve blogged about Peter Ivers before, the musician and provocateur who cut a legendary figure at late-60s Harvard, and was a confidant of Doug Kenney. I’d run across Peter in my reading every so often, and always suspected that there was an interesting story there. Now I know for sure thanks to a new bio, [...]
Continue reading...An “overopinionated and underinformed little book”
Friday, April 17, 2009
I knew there was a reason I disliked The Elements of Style. This professor tells me why. I once had a girlfriend with a similar attitude; it was like making love to Strunk and White without the frisson of a three-way. Though she never came out and said it, I suspect she believed I was [...]
Continue reading...How to fix Playboy–and magazines in general
Friday, January 16, 2009
I happened across this excellent article from Salon, written upon the ascension of James Kaminsky to the editorship of Playboy in 2002. It’s right on the money, as far as–what the best magazines used to be; –why that worked for them, artistically AND financially;–why they changed to what they are now;–and why that destroys them, [...]
Continue reading...At last! It's here!
For 30 years, Ravin fans wondered: What if Tom Larkin had survived? Now, the story can be told.
Mixing alternative history, hardboiled noir, parody and satire, Life After Death for Beginners is a must-read for every Beatles fan. "A cross between The Rutles and Three Days of the Condor. I loved it."—Jonathan Schwarz
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