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Sea to sea
This is not a jet-set post, I swear, but once in a weird while, I find myself standing on a beach, dreamily contemplating one ocean … And then a day or so later, I get to contemplate another: Summer is rushing by, and I offer the usual apology of negligent bloggers who feel some odd…
Read MoreHamlet’s BlackBerry winners!
Got a lot of responses to the giveaway of two copies of William Powers’ Hamlet’s BlackBerry. Congrats to B. in LA and T.E. in B’more. And, due to demand, I’m sharing a galley copy with M.C. in Placitas, N.M. May everyone else find some sort of sanity in this hyperconnected mania we live in! Start…
Read More‘Hamlet’s BlackBerry’ by William Powers! “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts never to heaven go.” Read this blog and WIN A COPY!
Okay, everyone, settle down, and stop your goddamn clickety-clicking and distracted surfing! I have analog media to promote (look, a book!), or, if you must, some kindling for your Kindle, an iBook to get your little greasy fingerprints all over. This is the full Tonsil blog endorsement of Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building…
Read MoreOne-Man Book Club: How many Bedwetters are checked into Hotel Theory? Less than zero.
No intro, no explan, nothing but books. Just trying to just say, yep, read ’em and here’s what the entire book club (still just the one member) thought. Need to clear it all out before the real summer vacation reading starts later this month. First up, Less Than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis. This is…
Read MoreOne-Man Book Club Backlog! Independence Day Clearance Sale Going On All Week!
The members of the One-Man Book Club have been reading ’em faster than all the members (total: one) can get on here to blogscuss ’em. I’m going to try to clear out all the One-Man Book Club recent selections this week, and include some selections where the membership couldn’t finish the book. Ready? Chug! To…
Read MoreX-acto Mundo
The young man pictured here comes to us courtesy of the Mary Degnan Archives. (Mary was inspired to re-examine a box of old photos after seeing her work on this particular subject matter here at Tonsil a month ago.) This picture was taken in the spring of 1987, when I was 18 and a freshman…
Read MoreOne-Man Book Club takes a moment to ponder the wondrous mediocrity of Belinda Carlisle
What seemed like half the freshman class of Bishop McGuinness High School went to see the Go-Go’s on their Vacation tour at the Oklahoma City Myriad Center University of Oklahoma Lloyd Noble Center (speak, memory! Or speak, Derba! Or, you know who would really know — Andrea Martinez). Thanks to the interwebs, I can at…
Read MoreUntil further notice…
… This will be my song of the summer. What’s going to be yours? Best Coast, “When I’m With You.”
Read MoreA tart, citrusy pour from the One-Man Book Club
The Tonsil Blog’s One-Man Book Club is back together, this time at Hank’s place. (Okay, every time at Hank’s place. Isn’t a book club so much nicer with one member?) It’s been long enough since the last meeting that the beverage of choice has switched from a wintry red (malbec) to a nice, crisp white…
Read MoreHell is other people’s ‘Lost’ theories
I only thought I’d typed my last words about Lost for The Washington Post. This morning, post-finale, it turned out we really needed someone to make the case for purgatory, amid all the other theories we were posting, either by Liz Kelly and Jen Chaney (our in-house “Lost” PhD’s), or from lots of devoted readers.…
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