Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Macaulay's celebrated quote (and related present-day remarks): "I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a …
I saw a guide to California independent bookstores for $1.98. Seems like quite a deal. More bargain book highlights coming, as well as reviews of Douglas Coupland's upcoming Hey Nostradamus! and Kavita Daswani's upcoming For …
Ebert says a bloggy thing in a 1998 review of a half-star flick: "The plot involves ... excuse me for a moment, while I laugh uncontrollably at having written the words 'the plot involves.' I'm …
I'm not sure what's more ominous, that I've dreamt of Osama bin Laden at least twice (silly, scary) or that I've dreamt of Roger Ebert at least twice (example).
In the mode of my Google party game, I learn other fortune cookie suffixes.
You, meaning I, always hear about the Ruby Ridge fiasco in the same breath as Waco, so I had no idea of the lopsided, breathtaking horror of the thing. An article from a pretty reliable …
When I completely forgot two thirds of my material on Tuesday, I felt much as Skot did: "I mentally pictured the skipped-over lines dying like slugs on a salt lick, and they screamed, 'Why didn't …
Brendan, on whom I can count for occasional odd spam subject lines, provides the title. I worry about copyright sometimes when I post excerpts from spam, but then I realize I'm being silly. And then …
I just reread Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Silly idea: a book entitled The Good Soldier Shevek. [The born-and-raised socialist/anarchist] tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was …
"Madonna wrote a children's book? Well, why not, she's done everything else. You know, I never realized that before -- when you're Madonna, you run out of things to do on a much larger scale. …