A biography of Jack Parsons, occultist and rocketeer, in comic book form.
A few of my favorites:
“The production of civil society is a work of love, indeed the work that many of us desire most.”
More history than one blog can handle.
Ben Franklin returns, with a time-traveling chess-playing robot and a cast of dozens, in my mostest award-winningest post.
Harry Houdini carries on Ben Franklin’s battle versus killer robots.
Every time you blog about blogging, a puppy dies.
Most recent posts:
Reactions to the Obama election from all around Bloggyville.
Post-election euphoria: I feel so full of “less shame,” I can’t tell you.
Six man mixed tag-team elimination match.
A night of broken dreams and fractured hips.
The unknowability of Ms Pac-Man; Major Wesely and Vietnam; the classic arcade “kill screen” and What Lies Beyond.
In loose Borgesian categories:
A biography of Jack Parsons, occultist and rocketeer, in comic book form.
Interwob links to confound and bemuse:
The New Beautiful and Enjoyable Game of Apes
Is only one of five centuries of board games at the always beautiful and enjoyable BibliOdyssey.
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
Two good friends of mine have just launched Social Ch@nge, a blog about using the net for nonprofits, with some constructive criticism of Joe the Plumber’s official (!) website.
Stock Market Skirt
A party dress with a hemline that automatically rises and drops along with the stock market. My man Bill discusses.
The Henry Ford of Literature
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, the huckster visionary whose mail-order superhighway paved the way for civil rights, feminism, the sexual revolution and the information age. Also, he may have been murdered by the FBI.
Great God, Where Is The Ship?
I don’t talk much politics here, but The Phil Nugent Experience is one political blog I can usually read without curling up into a ball crying. Also: “Drill, Baby, Drill”? Really?
Sex Magic Rocket Science
A biography of Jack Parsons, occultist and rocketeer, in comic book form.
Wikipedia Is Failing
Wikipedia (who else?) on the ways Wikipedia is failing. (But see also: Wikipedia is not failing; Wikipedia may or may not be failing; Wikipedia on problems solved by MacGyver.)
Pants On Fire
Mills Kelly is teaching a course this year that has me seething with jealousy awed respect: Lying About The Past, complete with a second term create-a-hoax practicum.
FDR's Men of Action!
Chef Julia Child, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., White Sox catcher Moe Berg, and the proverbial many more served in an “international spy ring” for the OSS during WWII.
Old Weird Google Map
Celestial Monochord goo-maps the Anthology of American Folk Music. What part of that sentence isn’t awesome? (See also.)
Invisible elves make our site go:
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