Kelly got me one of the best gifts I’ve got in a long time, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Collection. Weighing at just over 22 pounds, the collection consists of 3 hardcover bound books, with every comic done by Bill Watterson. Kicking off with a 14 page foreword, which was worth it a lone, as… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Books
Harry Potter
I have never read a Harry Potter book. As avid a reader as I am, once something hits the mainstream, especially so ferociously, I just have to be different and not do it. (I’ve never seen Titanic either). With that said, I took Alex this morning to Target post-haste and we purchased Harry Potter and… Read more »
William Gibson gets it
William Gibson is another one who gets the remix culture. In an article on Wired, Gibson writes of some of his early influences, including William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, one of the first authors to use sampling in literature. Later, attempting to understand this impact, I discovered that Burroughs had incorporated snippets of… Read more »
Required Reading
My new favorite magazine and website is brought to you by the geniuses behind Make Magazine. From their website: The first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and D.I.Y. inspiration. It’s like Popular Science was, except for the 21st century. The MAKE Blog is fantastic, updated often with lots of DIY tricks and links…. Read more »
This week's purchases
A bunch of good stuff this week: Books: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. A cow-orker lent me this to read last week and it was fantastic. A must read, review coming soon. Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Stranger than Fiction; all by Chuck Palahniuk. Author of Fight Club, Mr. Palahniuk’s writing style is very unique,… Read more »
We the Media
I finished We the Media by Dan Gillmor last week on the flight to Atlanta. It was a great book, and extremely topical at this time. Published last July, the book’s focus is grassroots journalism, through mainly, blogs. While the first third of the book is very high level, it’s a great starting point for… Read more »
I am Joe's Hard Drive
I just finished Chuck Palahniuk breakthrough novel Fight Club. Yes, the novel that inspired the movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. (On a side note, I’ve mentioned to one of my friends that I don’t think Ed Norton has ever done a bad movie. Even that one with Robert DeNiro – not a good… Read more »
More Christmas Presents: Books
One of my favorite Christmas presents to receive is a Barnes & Noble gift card. And this year my sister hooked the family up with a dandy. Alex was able to purchase two nice hardcovers by Garth Nix, and I picked up a few. On my list for quite a while is a few books… Read more »
A Breath(ed) of fresh air
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has an amusing interview with Berke Breathed, of Bloom County / Outland / Opus fame. I love Bloom County, as I’ve commented before. Re-reading and collecting those 80s comic books reminds me not only of my childhood, but how topical Mr. Breathed’s cartooning is and was. So much of what he talked… Read more »
Random Goodness
Boing Boing is full of random goodness today. First, BB has a link to Found Item Clothing, who has re-created the shirts from the movie Real Genius that Chris Knight (played by Val Kilmer wore). Next, BB points out that William Gibson (of Neuromancer and other books’ fame) has started blogging again. It looks like… Read more »
