From the category archives:
…snapping her phone shut:
“Well, that was Dan, he did it, he bought that place near me with the dead guy in the septic.”
“I don’t know why he doesn’t just haul that thing outta there, walk across the border, and chuck it into Canada.”
- Two older Montana women overheard in the Denver Airport between connecting flights (Saturday).
My friend Tim, on his blog, burns the “Ten Most Influential Books” internet meme flame and asks what are yours? As he notes, “influential” is a slippery word shooting over every which way. His post got me thinking (as he inteneded), but rather than clog up his blog comments as I usually do, I dashed off a list here.
And man do I feel like a snob, a poser, someone Salinger would bludgeon with a tire iron if he could. But there you have it. And the more I think about the list, the more I go “oh, wait, no that’s not right.” but then I felt like the first instinct should serve.
In order to lessen the self-disgust I feel at my own pretension, I’ve included commentary (because pontificating on classics is so much less pretentious….)
The list in no particular order (and I’ll amend the meme to include 10 texts—some shorter than a “book”) with prodigious links:
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Back in November, Bruce Worden and Clare Cross offered up this updated, and creepier, version of the 1947 classic children’s picture book by Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon. This parody features Keith Moon (1946-1978) [Annie Leibovitz portrait], the impish drummer for The Who.
Click the picture to wish all your little rockstars goodnight.
Recently deposed Sun Microsystems front man Jonathan Schwartz resigns with a haiku on Twitter, giving the world two things it needs: more poetry and fewer CEOs. Read More…
