Loren Eaton echoes Frank Wilson’s thoughts on the purpose of blogging.
Category Archives: Blogs, Socials
“Banned Books Week,” episode 743
I hesitate to call Dennis Ingolfsland, of The Recliner Commentaries, a “fellow librarian,” since he’s the real thing and I’m an on-the-job-trained poseur. But I know enough to recommend this piece about the American Library Association’s “Banned Books Week.”
The fact is that there are no banned books in America. Maybe I missed it but I don’t recall seeing any articles in the Library Journal or American Libraries protesting that other religion and those other countries which really do ban books.
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Alias Smith
Our friend and commenter S. D. Smith has changed his blogging digs from The Maple Mountain Story Club to a blog simply (and modestly) called S. D. Smith. No explanation is given for this change, nor any apology for the inevitable disruption and social chaos certain to ensue.
Update: Actually he does give an explanation. But it’s pretty unconvincing.
“The Blog and Turfs and the Brandywine Bankrompers”
I don’t know what this quote from Finnegans Wake means, but I think I need to make it my blogging life verse.
Global domination update
Another day, another blog endorsement. Actually this is a further endorsement from the guys over at Threedonia (specifically Mike and “Floyd”), who posted Amazon links today so that people could order not only West Oversea, but all my novels.
Thanks, guys.
What really impresses me is the insider influence that Floyd obviously wields. He linked to an order site for West Oversea at Amazon, but when I, regular mortal that I am, try to search for it there, they never heard of it. Floyd’s power is obviously that of no earthly being. I’m glad he’s on my side.
Emperor, clothes… you know the rest
Today’s my day for First Things links. This piece by Joe Carter, on the awfulness of James Joyce’s Ulysses, is just too good not to share.
Praise from (Sid) Caesar
Anthony Sacramone, late of Strange Herring, alerts me (in a comment on my dyspeptic post below about his hiatus) to his review, just posted, of my The Year of the Warrior, over at First Things blog.
If he knew how deeply I appreciate such fulsomosity, especially in view of the source, it would inflate his already prodigious ego to a level almost unimaginable to our pure-minded readership.
So I won’t say anything about it.
The West Oversea juggernaut jugs on
Loren Eaton, at I Saw Lightning Fall, was kind enough to post a very flattering review of West Oversea today.
His judgment fails him to the extent that he quibbles with a couple plot points, but otherwise his review meets my high personal standards.
Thank you, Loren.
Update: Link to review fixed.
“From the Frontiers of Science Department”
The more I see this little piece from Roy Jacobsen’s Dispatches From Outland blog, the more it delights me. (The blog is no more.)
Gaspard, B.F. (2009). On the synchronicity of the discharge of ionized sulfur particles from Io’s polar regions and Ms. Astrid Lingonströtter commuting patterns. Journal of Applied Planetary Research and Ironmongery, 257(1), 77-193.
“How Do You Think?”
Fascinating post and discussion on exactly what goes on in our heads when we think, over at the Thinklings.