If I ever get a chance to write my memoirs, I think I will name them either: What to Do If You Are Surrounded by the Entire Bolivian Army and Have No More Bullets or Snapshots: Twenty-seven 8 x 10 Color Glossy Photographs with Circles and Arrows and a Paragraph on the Back of Each One Explaining What Each One Was to be Used as Evidence against Us.
Posts in the category “books”
Picking the National Champion
There’s an excellent excerpt from ESPN College Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Game on the ESPN site right now. It’s the story of how the BCS was born and the history of the college football polling system. Go read it!
Six Feet Under
On television and reading
Bringing Down the House
What a great book! I just finished reading “Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions“, and I feel like I need to take a nap. It’s a thrilling, true account of a group of college kids that managed — in two years! — to fleece the
Some Good Books
In which I list some of my favorite books
Weekend Update
I had a great Easter weekend. Dinner at La Loggia’s Friday night. (Inexplicably sans web site for linking. A great restaurant in Studio City. Don’t sit in the patio area if you can help it.) A fairly uneventful but relaxing Saturday topped off by The Upside of Anger. (A wonderful flick, I loved it.) Fell
Curious Deaths of Some Burmese Kings
An interesting list
Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
Book review
The Devil in the White City
A wonderful book
Buying Good Books
In which I buy too many books. Again.