Category Archives: publishing

  1. Worries, Words, and Monikers

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    July 31, 2024 by libroshombre

                “Don’t worry about the horse being blind,” coach John Madden instructed, “just load the wagon.”  His point was to …
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    Category: health, libraries, memory, names, Newspapers, psychology, pubic libraries, publishing | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  2. Riots, Festivals, and Paperbacks

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    July 21, 2023 by libroshombre

                Many great minds have contemplated the dynamics of large groups of humans.  H.L. Mencken once said, “No one in …
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    Category: books, demagoguery, festivals, fiction, hardbacks, magazines, paperbacks, public libraries, publishing, science fiction | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  3. Tsundoku, Eco, and Antilibraries

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    February 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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  4. Stupid Thorns and Sassy Emoticons

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    February 18, 2021 by libroshombre

                Old BBC Britcoms provides excellent escape from the pandemic to carefree, less restrictive times for my cellmate and me.  …
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    Category: books, English, English language, language, printers, publishing, spelling, translating, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,

  5. Reading: A Pandemic Silver Lining

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    January 28, 2021 by libroshombre

                The last time the US Capitol was ransacked, it was by the British who also destroyed the nascent national …
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  6. Books, Bells, and Morals

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    September 3, 2020 by libroshombre

                It’s fascinating how the human mind skips around, sometimes fruitfully, like recent consideration of a naked pig-chasing man leading …
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  7. Murders, Measuers, and MSG

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    March 31, 2020 by libroshombre

    Shakespeare wrote in “Titus Andronicus” that “Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,/ Doth burn the heart to cinders where it …
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    Category: books, food, mistakes, mysteries, publishing, theater, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , ,

  8. Gilgamesh, Co-op Fees, and Comfy Libraries

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    November 19, 2019 by libroshombre

    Ancient epic literature appeals most when it reveals how people long ago lived their daily lives and how they thought. …
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    Category: bookstores, libraries, oral tradition, public libraries, publishing, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  9. Publishers, Malarkey, and Project Gutenberg

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    March 24, 2017 by libroshombre

      “Malarky!” was one of my father’s favorite epithets for things he deemed phony or exaggerated. I heard it all …
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    Category: publishing, sayings, Uncategorized, word origins | Tags: , , ,

  10. Essays, Agnotology, and Ignorance

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    February 8, 2016 by libroshombre

      I’ve been thinking about Michel Montaigne, the 16th century writer, wine grower, and counselor to kings, even more than …
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    Category: books, essay, Michel Montaigne, print, publishing, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,

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