Year: 2004

There’s a wonderful scene in Ian Rankin’s new novel on the Autobahn near Hanover Germany. Two intelligence agents en route to meeting a terrorist ha...

You’re gonna want to read this Maud Newton post on snark because soon all the cool kids will be linking it (if they haven’t already). Seriously thou...

Mark at the Elegant Variation pointed us toward this story about a book signing in flight. Imogen Edwards-Jones, author of Tuscany for Beginners, was talked int...

I have a music review posted over at Blogcritics that might interest readers here. The CD in question is a Rounder compilation album entitled Bill Morrissey: Th...

Forget Flying! Am I the only human being on earth who's had it with flying? Not only are the planes increasingly unsafe -- please save me from the proselytizer ...

I have been in a bit of a late August lull of late so content has been sparse. Lacking any particular insight or theme, I thought I would post miscellaneous com...