Spitball Army

Lists! And none of them are in ranked order. Also, none of the lists include the couple of handfuls of things that I forgot. Here goes: My favorite music of 2010 (the source material for this coming Sunday’s playlist): Mandelring Quartett / Schumann: Piano Quintet Josh Rouse / El Turista I disliked this album at first, […]

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Approximate playing time: 76 minutes.

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Specifically, these are the books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course’s “Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century” that have been criticized for language, sexual references, violence, or for just being, well, too imaginative.

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Card is titled: “Entrance to Cavern, Carlsbad Cavern National Park, New Mexico. Photo by Kennicott. 3A-H18.”

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Fred FM is playing hooky today.  Please read a book, mow the lawn, barbecue a small animal, or visit baseballmusings. [audio:Mason_Jennings___Nothing.mp3]

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The twelve books I’ve abandoned stand in a row, marked by ticket stubs between pages 50 & 127. They have endings; I can’t finish them. – Written by @Ralphley.

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My boss asks to borrow the book. Months pass. I ask for it; she denies having it. Leaving work, I spy it in her car’s back seat. The book was Janet Malcolm’s Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession. She was a psychology grad student in a clinical internship.

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I lend him the new book before I even read it. He returns it quickly: underlined, highlighted, dog-eared. “Consider it a gift,” I tell him.

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Vintage postcards from antique malls and yard sales get scanned as blog entries, annotated, then used as bookmarks in his library.

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Shakespeare > Dickens > Twain > Jane Austen > Dr. Seuss > JK Rowling > Stephenie Meyer > mommy tweets

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