Journalist Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food along with four previous books, spoke at Google last month as part of their Authors@Google series. The video of his talk is up on YouTube and it’s incredible.
So compelling (and practical) was his talk that I rushed out to purchase his book immediately and it’s [...]
Many thanks to all who turned out for the book signing this past weekend at Borders Books in central PA. Not only did we have a capacity crowd, the store also sold out of their entire stock of the book!
The current edition of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not will soon go off the shelves [...]
A collection of persistent mistakes and fraudulent facts from the world’s most popular reference work.
How many times have you found yourself in a lovely yet heated discussion, feeling that you might be making some headway with your argument, only to hear the following dreaded phrase – “Weeeelll, according to Wikipedia…” – followed by a stream [...]
Appearing in the Boston Globe on Sunday (link via boston.com) was a wonderful article by Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale and author of Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life.
The article explored – as presumably does the book – the reasons for which exploration [...]
Since becoming quite addicted to The West Wing television series, I’ve been finding it easier and easier to bring my laptop to bed with me to watch episodes of my favorite television shows as I fall asleep. Unfortunately, this has been slowly displacing my life-long routine of reading before bed and I’m feeling a [...]
Almost a full three weeks ahead of the originally scheduled date, the new Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: The Remarkable… revealed book is now on bookstore shelves everywhere.
I popped in to a Borders Books to see if I could sneak a peek at my own entry in the text, and sure enough, [...]
Last year while browsing at my local Borders bookstore, one new release leaped off the shelf and caught my attention: Eat This Book A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit.
The title and design alone are enough to make anyone take notice – what an odd subject – and though [...]
Cryonics – the act of cryopreserving human remains for possible future resuscitation – is the subject of a new …wait for it… children’s book.
Though the practice of cryonics has been going strong for forty years now and has seen treatment – however scientifically unsound those treatments have been – in several Hollywood movies and many [...]
Wandering through a small bookstore in Burlington, Massachusetts when I was a mere fifteen years old, I stumbled by sheer happenstance across an intriguing book that prove to be the most influential text of my formative teenage years, and which would lead me to untold intellectual treasures in the years to come.
Little did I know [...]
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.
Mr. Vonnegut suffered [...]
Holiday activities this past weekend left me with an abundance of brightly colored hard-boiled eggs and not a clue as to what to do with them all. So in the grand tradition of Woody Allen, I set out on a search for the world’s perfect egg salad recipe.
My palate being the decidedly adventurous that [...]
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Roderick Russell Featured in Upcoming Ripley’s Publication
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and Ripley Entertainment have just announced that they will be featuring world-record holding sword swallower Roderick Russell in it’s upcoming fall of 2007 publication entitled Ripley’s Believe It or Not: The Remarkable…revealed.
Set for inclusion are several photographs, including x-ray [...]
Dining establishments distinguish themselves in numerous ways; from the mundane and expected methods of hosting famous chefs, serving top-notch gourmet dishes and offering impeccable service, to those unusual establishments that set themselves apart by virtue of their unique and off-beat marketing approaches. Toronto’s cosplay-themed iMaid Cafe (slashfood review here) and Bradenton, Florida’s Linger Lodge, [...]
It’s approaching the end of the year and I’m clearing out the remaining limited stock of my book Confessions of a Renaissance Faire Sword Swallower.
This pitch book is a 42 page, 8.5″ x 5.5″, saddle stitched document containing a short history of the art of sword swallowing and lengthy interviews with yours truly wherein I [...]
Though entirely unintentional, the short list of articles found on this blog seem to feature a high incidence of “sex in classical music” entries. I have yet to create an entire entry dedicated solely to the subject, but embedded in other articles the reader will find references to the sexual appeal of such musicians [...]