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Too Late 2021 When Comedians Die Off Stage

Zombos Says: Good (slow art house pace and limited budget keeps the camera tight, but dialog is enjoyably crisp, which helps keep the story creepy and droll). There is a slow, droll, one-joke told too many times standup delivery going... Read more

"112th Street" [by James Longenbach]

on The Best American Poetry

112th Street If only once, if ever you have the chance, You should climb a volcano. The hermitage at basecamp, the glasses of brandy— That’s the past. Who wants to think about the past? You want to push forward, climb... Read more

DREAM GIRL by Laura Lippman Tops Library Holds Lists

on Library Love Fest

DREAM GIRL IS A DREAM! Fan favorite and all-around fabulous person Laura Lippman crushes it again in her latest novel, Dream Girl, a dark, complex tale of psychological suspense with echoes of Misery involving a novelist, incapacitated by injury, who... Read more

Ber Himwich Photography 348

on Hughlings Himwich

Leonora's Photography 119

on Hughlings Himwich

"To Summer" a sonnet [by David Lehman]

on The Best American Poetry

Shall I compare a season to a day, a woman to a body like a violin? Summer is the reason for my grin, and on that violin I would play. In the nave of her church I would pray. Though... Read more

"Small Target Bombing Probabilities"--Bombing Calculator, 1944

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Expansion of an earlier post from 2011 I found this object in my paper-calculators box (moveable disk calculators made of paper, two going back to Fr. A. Kircher in the 1680’s)—I’m not sure why it was... Read more

Found Graphic Novel Art in of all places! the Annalen der Physik 1885

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Overall Post 5135 There are some sub-categories on this 2-million (!?) word blog presented in the vernacular of FOUND items, like FOUND Poetry, or FOUND Science Art, or FOUND Outsider art, or TechnoNaive, and... Read more

If the Borg Skipped Around in a 3-Trillion-Ton Cube of Coal...1913

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Overall Post 5133 This is an arresting and somewhat intimidating (1913) image1--a gigantic Borg-like cube of all of the Earth's coal. It was made to show the vastness of the U.S. coal reserves, and... Read more

On the Other Side of Things: Title Pages

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Overall Post 5132 There's a certain beauty to be found in odd places in books and paintings. This is not just looking at the reverse of a title page--this is about finding a little... Read more

A New Category: Techno-Naive Art 1924

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Overall Post 5131 What a fantastic drawing! I don't mean to diminish this invention at all, though I must say that I was attracted to the article for the very 1950's comic book naive... Read more

An Eviscerating Review of "The Last Attack on Darwinism" 1872

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Overall Post 5130 There are many hopeful headings that appear in the fantastically-readable journal Nature (especially in the 19th century), and this one--"The Last Attack on Darwinism"--is certainly one of them. It was written for the... Read more

Your Daily Dirigible 1913

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Overall Post 5129 Well, no, this is not really a "daily" dose of dirigibles, though it is a nice display of the airships. This double-page display is found in the Illustrated London News from... Read more

Mark Tansey’s “Triumph of the New York School” [by David Lehman]

on The Best American Poetry

Mark Tansey is a definitively postmodernist painter. His pictures stand at two removes from nature; not art but art history (or art theory) is his subject. Tansey deals in theories and notions, presenting them with the sort of sharp irony... Read more

Download Flying Tables

on Stephen Wendell

Preparing to use them at the table, I compiled the three Flying Tables into a PDF. Each table—by the Bluebook, for Basic and Lower Dungeons, and for Caves and Caverns—fits on its own 5½″ × 8½″ page. For hard copy,... Read more

The Essay Project: Physically Pleasurable Poems

on Cher Scholar

Robert Pinsky talks about what makes a poem physically pleasurable. Read more

All things Bridgerton!

on Library Love Fest

So, you've finished the first season of Bridgerton on Netflix...now what? Well, not to fear! We have you covered. Below you will see a list of all the Bridgerton books in the series and books within that world as well... Read more

"Children Who Work on the Nation's Crops" 1942

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Overall Post 5128 This is a substantial indictment and attack on the loose laws (where they actually existed) regarding child labor in the United States, specifically regarding kids working in the fields. If you... Read more

The July LibraryReads List is Here!

on Library Love Fest

Hello, librarians! You voted, they counted, and the winners have finally been announced! This month, we are thrilled to share that Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas has been selected for the July LibraryReads List! We're also thrilled that we... Read more

Gaia 2021 This Ecological Horror Has Deep Roots

on JM Cozzoli

Zombos Says: Good. Slow pacing and an artful but ponderously delivered ecological-warning weigh it down. Gaia's body and ecological horror elements can be found in earlier movies such as Matango and The Ruins. At this point in time, given the... Read more

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