Havana Manana.
One of the nice things about working in a library is being surprised not just by new books but old books too. Sometimes really old books, like George Washington Carleton’s Our Artist In Cuba, a short...
View ArticleLost And Found.
The April 2009 issue of National Geographic Explorer reported that the remains of Everett Ruess had possibly been found. An artist, poet, explorer, and naturalist, twenty-year old Everett Ruess came...
View ArticleSlice Of Pizzzza.
Several years ago Pizza Hut ran an ad with Mikhail Gorbachov. Russians sat around a Pizza Hut debating whether Gorbachov’s rule had been good or bad for the country. Wait, was it really a Pizza Hut?...
View ArticleGoing To The Dogs.
Having a soft spot in my heart for dogs I couldn’t help finding an article in England’s Sun about wild dogs riding Moscow’s Metro bittersweet. On the one hand it’s sad that there are wild dogs...
View ArticleThe Way The Cookie Crumbles.
Here in the United States we call them cookies. Across the pond, in Britain, they’re called biscuits, and biscuit comes from the French word biscuit. Spelled the same, but it sounds differently, which...
View ArticleWhat Kind Of Farm Is It?
A co-worker of mine just held up a copy of the September 14th, 2009 Times (London) with the big scary headline 20,000 children put at risk by dithering at E. coli farm. While I don’t want to laugh at...
View ArticleWTF?!?
Sometimes jokes go too far. The Wisconsin Tourism Federation, which, as Chris Matyszczyk reports, created its name “30 years ago, when the Web was not even a thought in the mind’s eye of an...
View ArticleRude For Thought.
In the September 2009 issue of Travel+Leisure, Peter Jon Lindberg considers The World’s Rudest Restaurants. He does mention a few restaurants that are actually known for their rudeness, places where...
View ArticleCadbury Is Too Cool For School.
For some reason Cadbury bars, which are, I think, as synonymous with chocolate in Britain as Hershey bars are here, are kind of hard to find around here. About the only time I see anything made by...
View ArticleCitizens Of The World.
I am neither an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. -Socrates The question of who owns a work of art can get pretty complicated. In A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’, John...
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