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Hey, It’s a Throwback Post to 2022!
This is one worth reblogging, mainly because I fracture some of the content of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology book. It’s one that hits my sentimentality bone because it’s the book my favorite English Lit teacher, Dr. Jenny Lind Porter, used to teach mythology when I was a freshman at Huston-Tillotson College (now Huston-Tillotson University) in Austin,…
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I Have Dave Barry’s New Book, “Class Clown”
Yesterday I was hiking hither and yon and ended up at Barnes and Noble. You’ll never guess what I bought there! Oh, you read the title of this post, OK. I always stop at the humor section and I never see anything by Dave Barry. When I saw his new book (well, newer; Class Clown,…
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Baptism for a Lightweight
This post is a blast from the past. Before I published the handbook for consultation-liaison psychiatry over 15 years ago, I suggested a blog post for the Cambridge University Press author web site. I can’t remember if they bought the idea-probably not. But I was pretty proud of our little book, since it weighed zero…
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Could Ray Bradbury Have Been Lyrical About Isolation & Ebola?
I got this fascinating comment on one of my posts, (Do We See Each Other”), I wrote last year about one of Ray Bradbury’s short stories, entitled “I See You Never.” Judy’s remark was right on target, “Sometimes fiction mirrors life too painfully.” I don’t know whether Bradbury’s short story she called “The Lighthouse” is…
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Editing My 16-Year-Old Blog Post
There’s a couple of reasons for this odd post. There are two reasons for writing it. One is a belated respect for copyright law and the other is a selfish one-my eye is on the WordPress prize for editing a post more than 6 years old. The latter will no doubt be disqualified because the…
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Dave Barry Beats TV
I’ve been sitting here reading Dave Barry’s book, “Best State Ever: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland.” It was published in 2016 and every time I read something from it, I laugh my fool head off. I used to have more than 20 of Barry’s non-fiction books. Now I have only this one. The others…
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Svengoolie Show Movie: “Son of Frankenstein”
Svengoolie Intro: “Calling all stations! Clear the air lanes! Clear all air lanes for the big broadcast!” Last night I thought I was going to see the movie “Son of Frankenstein” again because I saw it a year and a half ago. In fact, while watching it I thought I either fell asleep during most…
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Today is National Grammar Day So Let’s Hear it for Will Strunks’ Little Book!
Sena just told me that it’s National Grammar Day today, which was news to me, but irregardless (whoops, that’s ungrammatical! It’s regardless or off comes your head), I mean regardless, grammar is pretty important. This reminds me of the essayist, E.B. White, who wrote an essay about his former teacher, Will Strunk Jr. White admired…
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Pentagon
So, just for laughs I sometimes watch Ancient Aliens (you know, the UFO show with the hair dude). Last night, they were talking about some guy named Valiant Thor as if he were a real person. Maybe some of you know about the book, “Stranger at the Pentagon,” which you can read for free on…
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One Anecdote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr is Nothing to Sneeze At
I’ve finished reading both biographies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (the one by Jonathan Eig and the autobiography edited by Clayborne Carson). Both books were fascinating. Many of the accounts of King’s life were familiar to me mainly because I had seen them written about in other books and articles. Some of them are…
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