Book Digest: August 21, 2006
The Prince of the Marshes; Richard Hofstadter; Picasso & Lump; Jeans; Siddhartha; An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter; Mission Rejected; Smonk; The Dissident
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Blackstock’s Collections
What’s the world except a collection of things? And aren’t things sometimes nicer done in marker and crayon?
21 August 2006
New York's currently: worth the trouble With Israel's airlifted raid into Lebanon on Saturday and the U.N. unable to get troops until it defines a mission, the cease-fire in Lebanon is still on shaky ground. "The country's oil and gas reserves
Video Digest: August 18, 2006
Oldies and youngies: Geriatric1927’s touching vlogs; Asian woman takes many pictures; babies are made on the floor; Clell Tickle and Tapes N Tapes teach us how to break an indie band; and in honor of Sarah’s birthday, a video for Virgos.
18 August 2006
New York's currently: inventing a pork-chop salad Federal court rules the NSA's warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional. France to only contribute 200 additional troops to southern Lebanon, despite Security Council's need for 13,000. Israel concerned that countries which don't acknowledge
How I Became a Teacher
Ron Clark may have cornered the market on strategies for classroom control, but it takes a different brand of strong-arming to really get results. The first installment of excerpts from a book whose author cannot be named for obvious reasons.
‘We Need You!’
Dear TMN, Kevin Guilfoile’s further exposure of a story about Bruce Springsteen[[1]] was certainly intriguing; “everyone knows that a man, shouting at Springsteen, partly inspired the new songs.” Everyone maybe, but not me. Previously I had believed that the inspiration for Springsteen’s most recent music was the
17 August 2006
New York's currently: glad to be a part of today's world, even if it means recognizing Emmy Rossum Lebanon ships troops south with fuzzy orders leaving Hezbollah intact. Given striking increase in attacks, White House is considering alternatives to democracy for Iraq. Sensing a tide shift
Dread and Fire
Last night a pothole exploded on our street. Or so we think. No one I talked to on the block is positive about what happened. Here’s what we know: Around eleven last night, the lights in our apartment dimmed to brown and there was a massive explosion; our landlady,
The Obit Laureate
The first installment of our occasional series in which we transform recent Times obituaries—a gong striker, a burger matriarch, a bagpipe virtuoso—into light verse.