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Pops, Pies, and Humor
Leave a commentOctober 19, 2018 by libroshombre
Reading and ice cream are delightful summer pursuits, although only the former’s good for you. Summer reading’s typically light and …
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Book Buying, Book Reading, and Book Loving
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2018 by libroshombre
Upon my arrival in Fairbanks in 1990, former State Senator Charlie Parr recommended I read “Generations: The History of America’s …
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Pogo, Podiums, and Pharaohs
Leave a commentOctober 16, 2018 by libroshombre
“Polyphiloprogenitive” was a good descriptor for Walt Kelly, the Pogo comic strip creator, poet, and political satirist, especially when it …
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Greek Mysteries, N-Grams, and Deer Ankles
Leave a commentOctober 12, 2018 by libroshombre
It’s no mystery; the old Greeks’ word “mysteria” meant “secret rite or doctrine,” according to the Online Etymology Dictionary, and …
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Puppies, Spies, and Brains
Leave a commentOctober 11, 2018 by libroshombre
Last week two fellow Osher Lifelong Learning students passed along some library-related amusements. One item, a Peanuts strip showing Charlie …
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Nero, Thi, and Horatio
Leave a commentSeptember 25, 2018 by libroshombre
It’s true that lately I go to bed nightly with a corpulent, orchid-loving genius: Nero Wolfe, the best literary …
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Guys, Dudes, and Brodies
Leave a commentAugust 26, 2018 by libroshombre
A decade ago the New York Post ran an article by Jasmine Williams titled “Steve Brodie – Daredevil or …
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Ignorant Economists, Amazon Bookstores, and Public Libraries
Leave a commentAugust 9, 2018 by libroshombre
Martin Luther King, Jr. was spot-on when he said, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance …
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Fondling Phones, Valuable Words, and the Opies
Leave a commentAugust 9, 2018 by libroshombre
“18 Wheeler” is a video game simulating semi truck driving, but you might beware of overindulging in it, or any …
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Sillage, Szag, and Japanese Toilets
Leave a commentAugust 5, 2018 by libroshombre
““Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it,” according to Vladimir Nabokov. That’s …
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