Category Archives: magazines
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Annotations, Ink Drinkers, and Pleasure Reading
Leave a commentJuly 9, 2022 by libroshombre
Knowing I’d just returned from a Seattle trip, a friend needlessly asked if I’d visited any bookstores. Well, I …
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Tsundoku, Eco, and Antilibraries
Leave a commentFebruary 25, 2021 by libroshombre
“He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, all of admirable flavor,” according to the Victorian writer …
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People, Poetry and Powerhouse
Leave a commentApril 12, 2020 by libroshombre
The people at People Magazine want you to know that February 20 is National Hoodie-hoo Day, when everyone should “step …
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Wang Yi, Mr. T and Carrie
Leave a commentJanuary 9, 2017 by libroshombre
Commands shouted out by the Mr.T In Your Pocket (“Six Helluva Tough Guy Sayings; ‘It’s My real Voice, Fool!’”), …
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Drunk Persians, Political Correctness, and Deceptive Advertising
Leave a commentNovember 23, 2016 by libroshombre
Herodotus reported that the ancient Persians preferred getting drunk when deciding something important, and the next day, after sobering …
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Obnubilate Zinio, Y’all
Leave a commentJune 7, 2016 by libroshombre
The words from TheAtlantic.com fell on my ears like manna in the desert: “How y’all doing? A greeting as …
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Stimulations, Contraction, and Boney-eared Assfish
Leave a commentApril 11, 2016 by libroshombre
Some periodicals provide close to the same serendipial stimulation browsing the shelves as a well-stocked library. But where the library’s …
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Bubbles, Words, and Colors
Leave a commentOctober 27, 2015 by libroshombre
“This world’s a bubble,” according to Saint Augustine, and I think he nailed it. I recently read a Slate.com article …
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