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I only have a few moments to weigh in a bit on Bleak House: I took the day off work yesterday as i wasn’t feeling entirely well, and I had visions of spending most of my afternoon curled up with the book. Alas, I instead got to thinking and writing about Brian Burke; several hours [...]  Mike and I have decided to strike out on our own for National Novel Reading Month 2008 – the gang over at defectiveyeti are reading Lolita, but Mike and I (having both read the book) have instead selected Charles Dickens’ Bleak House as the book we’re going to read together. Mike’s already got his summary [...] I learned a new word today: “mendicant.” Apparently, there is a seventeenth century English criminal case called Wright’s Case. In this case, it was held (according to the Supreme Court of Canada) that a man would: be punished at law for procuring another to sever his hand – to assist his career as a mendicant [...] I highly recommend e‘s review of Dave Bidini’s Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places. It seems kind of silly to review a review – how many layers of abstraction can people tolerate, after all – so suffice to say that e managed to put her virtual finger, very eloquently, on [...] Wired has a lengthy rememberance of Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax here. Certain to cause Spouse’s eyes to jump out of her head and a significant amount of associated sputtering is the following passage from the article: Many trace the origin of war games to a 1913 work by H. G. Wells titled Little [...] |
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