My boss turned me on to this. Goddamn if I never met a more tasty cornflake. The packages that say “Knusperflake” oppose to Cornflake tend to be tastier, although I can’t place exactly why. Perhaps a complete psychological thing.

I received the galley for this
(perks of working in a book shop…woo hoo!) and it looked interesting, but already Conley’s infatuation with creating new words is a little irritating. Weisure. Work and leisure. Convesment. Consumption and investment.
I’m annoyed and I’m only on page 36.
Grr.
Perhaps I should try a novel.

I dig Žižek, I really do, but Violence wasn’t cutting it for me. He’s easy to follow once you get his thought process down, but there were times where he was just trying too hard to make connections – jumping from Christianity, to Monty Python, to Freud…I mean, c’mon. Everything was connected but the segue’s weren’t the prettiest or most direct. Still an interesting read though, so I suggest picking it up if social commentary is your bag – otherwise, you’re not missing out on anything.

I seem to gravitate towards history books written by journalists (Kapuściński, Chandrasekaran) perhaps because the writing is style is very factual with just enough “humanity” to make it personal. Shlaes gives a very erudite accounting of events leading up, during, and ending the Great Depression. With keen observations and almost a luminous foreshadowing of current situations, Forgotten Man is an excellent read.

The voice of Erica Wennerstrom is utterly hypnotic – deep and slow as syrup. All the songs on this record share a simliar dream-like, hazy feeling. A definite play for humid summers, or days by the water.

Gritty garage rock sound, with a deep female vocal lead. Think Detroit Cobras meets Black Keys with some Greenhornes thrown in for good measure.

Imagine if Tom Waits, Johnny Cash and Robert Johnson were doing shots of moonshine in a some backwater shack in the bayou writing songs and playing music for weeks on end – that is The Five Points Band.

How many times can you read a children’s book that has footnotes? Or references Goethe and The Wu-Tang Clan within the first three pages? You most certainly can with The Shadow and Her Wanda. Awesome squared.

Absolutely wonderful. Jeffers is my new favorite children’s illustrator of the moment. Way Back Home has the sweet simplicity of his other books with gorgeous illustrations and a nice little story. He refrains from writing in a child-like way, where many other children’s authors write in a form that is a step above baby-talk (which is completely annoying). And my absolute favorite thing about this book is the continuity (read Lost and Found before this book.)
And I hear he lives in Brooklyn to boot…now I just need to track him down to do a reading in my store. ::insert giddy squeals::

Interesting and offers a lot of information, although it doesn’t go as in depth as I wanted it to. With the amount of people they had at their disposal they could have had the definitive review of the US-Iraq debate. The film presents a lot of facts, but at times just rests on those instead of delving into cause and effect and trying to find the story behind everything. I think it would have benefited greatly if they made it into a series, but at about 90 minutes it’s still a decent survey. For further information you can read “Hubris”, “Assassin’s Gate” and “Imperial Life in the Emerald City.”