You can pick up the damndest tidbits just driving around in the car, as I was doing this morning listening to a lecture from The Great Courses on Boethius and . The lecturer was going on about the concept of consolation at work in this, that and the other work of Great Lit and I was nodding along (but not off) when my ears pricked up.
J.R.R. Tolkien? Really? Read more about The Consolation of Galadriel
Read more about CongoTHEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH
THE BLACK,
CUTTING THROUGH THE JUNGLE WITH A
GOLDEN TRACK.
In other words, the Goddam Grateful Dead! Read more about Thanks for the GDGD!
Greenwood Books Balderdash Books Read more about Decline and Fall
Kicking off election week, I decided to post another bookstore review from the turn of the century. I am proud to have helped procure some funds from the Grateful Dead's Rex Foundation for Books to Prisoners - I've got the t-shirt to prove it.
Inventory: Radical politics, anti-authoritarian, independent, left-wing, small press
Left Bank Books is probably best described by their own hand-out sheet.
Read more about On the Other Left Bank>Gary’s Games & Hobbies
8539 Greenwood Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98103
Inventory: Games, models, puzzles, books
Something else we do in Seattle on rainy days. Read more about Games? You wanna play games?
I came of age in the Eisenhower/Kennedy era, when the future, even threatened by a nuclear shadow, was also bright with possibility and, with Kennedy's promise to take us to the Moon, alive with adventure.
Into the 60's and 70's, I remained convinced better days were ahead. Star Trek promised us a future without racism, a future that fused science and nature in harmonic symbiosis, a future in which not only different peoples of the earth but also aliens worked together for the good of all. Read more about The Danger of Dystopia
Fremont - self-styled Center of the Universe - somehow lost this gem:
Fremont Place Book Co. Read more about A Hole in the Center of the Universe
The Couth Buzzard seems to have come up with a device that ensures its survival - combine with a very cool coffee shop and bring in live music once in a while. My friend Jim Page is a strong supporter. Read more about The Couth Buzzard
Boardwalk Empire, Hell on Wheels, and Copper are three great excursions into times we never knew and sometimes think we might prefer. I watch them all. But for the real thing, I read old National Geographics. These writers weren't looking for period authenticity. They lived them. Read more about Finding the Rainbow