Posts in the category “books”
#FridayFive: Villains
View the Friday Five from April 9th, 2010
#FridayFive: Favorite Magazines
View the Friday Five from February 5th, 2010
Living Under a Rock
With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love movies. Yet,
Spenser: For Hire
On the death of my favorite author
#FridayFive: Comic Book Heroes
Wolverine would be a close 6th
On Football
As I get older I find it increasingly difficult to explain my love of football. You’d think that the opposite would be true, that I would find it easier to tell people how wonderful it is as I understand the game more. But that is simply not the case. I follow Stewart Mandel on Twitter
Real Products for Fictional Companies
The excellent local blog CurbedLA had an entry recently on artist Mark Bennett’s blueprints of fictional places. He has created very detailed floor-plans of famous pretend places, like the homes of George and Jane Jetson, Rob and Laura Petrie, and June and Ward Cleaver. (There’s a book, too!) I thought these were terrific so I
#FridayFive: Favorite Hemingway Novels
View the Friday Five from September 18th, 2009
Summer Reading List
In which I list some of the books on my bedside table
Born Standing Up
In which I review Steve Martin’s memoir