So if your wife (spouse, significant other) goes to Book Expo in New York City, I have some advice for what to do, and not to do around the house. First, if you want to warm a… More Helpful Hints Around the House From Me
I seem to always need something else to do when I am doing something, which probably says something about me I am not sure I want to examine. Music when I am working. A book… The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
If I had a bucket list, which I do not (I suppose creating a bucket list is my one current entry in my bucket list), and if being on C-SPAN was on that list, it… On C-SPAN at the Karl Rove Book Signing
One of the advantages (or from a different perspective disadvantages) of reading books on a Kindle is that the reader does not really get a sense as to how long a book is. For reasons… Middlemarch
Well, actually, I am just referring to up and down. Um, that probably does not explain my question well either.
This will take a few steps to explain.
Have you ever had two separate thoughts bang together and cause an unexpected question/result? For me this happens a lot, with pretty useless results I will admit in most cases especially when the two thoughts are not so related.
Thanks to Ellen, I renewed, well, I got a new, library card. Now that I have an actual commute since my un-semi-retirement over to Largo MD where my offices at UMUC are, I download audio… Cleopatra: A Life
Each year Ellen spends a week in NYC attending a (the?) book festival, this year she left Tuesday morning and will return Saturday night. This, obviously, gives me the opportunity to have a completely out-of-control… Day 3 of My Wild & Crazy Bachelor Week
So I have seen the trailer for the movie The Book Thief twice in the last week or two. And I teared up BOTH TIMES, I suspect that if my daughters ever actually read this… The Book Thief
When I was young I was an avid comic reader, originally obsessive about lots of DC comics like Superman and Batman and later Marvel comics like Spiderman and the Avengers. Today I get to see all of these characters on the movie screen, the aging fanboy I guess I have become, without much regard to the quality of the film.
The last thing that would have occurred to me to think about was the fact that the comics were created by actual people with actual lives and actual concerns and issues.
Last night we went to see The History of Invulnerability by David Bar Katz at the DCJCC. The play focuses on the story of Jerry Siegel, one of the creators of Superman in 1938 along with his artist partner, Joe Shuster.The History of Invulnerability
Once a year, Ellen goes to New York for a book festival for almost a week, like this last week typically leaving Sunday morning and returning Thursday evening.
I will note in passing that when Ellen goes to New York, she takes the bus; when I go, I take the train. One wonders what conclusions can be drawn from this (Gender differences? Political differences? Attitude toward spending money differences?)
Anyway, during that week I am ON MY OWN. Able to do WHATEVER I WANT. Free to do it WHENEVER I FEEL LIKE IT. Of course, except when I have to go to work, or work on my classes I teach, or this last Sunday except when I am with my younger daughter, Tamar, watching the last two episodes of Game of Thrones for the season.My Wild and Crazy Week