Monthly Archives: March 2006

“But the Great American Novel–the picture of the ordinary emotions and manners of American existence–the American “Newcomes” or “Miserables” will, we suppose, be possible earlier.”Is it time?” the benighted people in the earthen jars or commonplace life are asking. And with no intention of being disagreeable, but rather with sympathetic sorrow, we answer, “Wait.” At […]

I’m a little uneasy about how reliant I’ve become on high speed internet access. I’m reasonably sure there are many people out in cyberspace who spend far more time in the binary ether than I do, but I’m not a lemming, and the fact that I have a callous on my mouse hand worries me. […]

links for 2006-03-25 Literature-Map – The tourist map of literature Type in an author’s name and the page generates names of other authors who wrote similarly. It’s kinda neat, but if you type in “John Grisham” Tolkien’s name appears in the list of similar authors. Funny, I never made that connection. Randy Quaid Sues Over […]

Don’t expect a whole lot of bloggery from me until Sunday night. We’re visiting my parents on the farm, and as any loyal reader of this blog knows, the connection speed out here runs at about the same pace as USPS. Sometimes slower. But there are certain advantages to country livin’. You never have to […]

links for 2006-03-24 The Dan Brown Code- By Bryan Curtis via Slate How to write like Dan Brown as told by Dan Brown. UPDATE-“Snakes on a Plane” Fan frenzy for ‘Snakes’ is on a different plane “the filmmakers added more gore, more death, more nudity, more snakes and more death scenes. And they shot a […]

You know, in spite of all the political unrest in the world, as a culture we’ve accelerated technologically at an astounding rate in the last 200 years. Just think, at the beginning of the last century most people in our country did not have access to electricity, running water or an automobile. By the close […]

links for 2006-03-23 Leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama- via YouTube This has got to be joke. Why does the amateur sketch look like a penis wearing an acorn? And is it just me or does the “special leprechaun flute” looks suspiciously like a piece of pipe with holes bored in it? World War 2 Pictures In […]

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Don’t adjust your sets kids. You’re seeing the new and improved Hyperliterature”¦I hope you like it. I hope the color change makes reading the blog a tad easier on the eyes. I also installed a Google Adsense bar at the top of the content section, so if you see something advertised that you like give […]

links for 2006-03-22 Die Hard: The Ballad of John McClane- via Youtube A silent version of Die Hard. Probably only funny if you have every line memorized like I do. Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows “If you’re going to be on a Reality TV show, you can buy one of these fine products and […]