A pretty young jewel from Medina …
Never mind.
Archive for September, 2008
Dept. of Topical Limericks
Posted in Books, News with tags Jewel of Medina, Sherry Jones on 30 September, 2008 by S&Co.Advocate for the People
Posted in News, Opinion with tags Dennis Kucinich on 30 September, 2008 by S&Co.
“Is this the United States Congress or the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs?”
– Congress member Dennis Kucinich on Democracy Now!
London publisher, bombed.
Posted in Books, News with tags Sherry Jones on 29 September, 2008 by S&Co.You may already have heard that the offices of the UK publishers of Sherry Jones‘s book, The Jewel of Medina, were firebombed Friday night.
Sherry is scheduled to appear at the Montana Festival of the Book next month.
In national news, how crazy is it when Dennis Kucinich and Denny Rehberg vote NO on the same bill?
Funny, not Trashy
Posted in Books on 28 September, 2008 by Elisabeth
Reading the memoir Trash Fish: A Life by MSU professor Greg Keeler feels like what I imagine a day at the old muddy swim hole felt like for my mother and the other youngsters of her hometown: dirty, a little trashy, but the source of many loving memories. Keeler’s writing comes off as surprisingly laid-back for a professor of English, but just as this shock begins to wear off, he includes a little bite of enlightenment and self-analysis. Modest, funny, and a little gross, Keeler’s stories explain his life through, and sometimes despite of, his life-long fishing obsession.
[p. 44] “Have you ever been to Montana?” says the man, gazing at distant pine trees.
“No,” says Greg, “but I’ve ordered flies from Dan Bailey’s, and they’re…”
“Montana is nothing like this state with its little mud puddles and its slums of trout,” says the man. “Montana is God’s country.”
Greg tries to imagine a country that God would designate as his own, but lately he has been having trouble imagining God at all, much less his country.
-Greg Keeler, Trash Fish: A Life (Counterpoint, $14.95) IN STOCK!
The Cyclone
Posted in Books with tags Graham Rawle, Wizard of Oz on 27 September, 2008 by S&Co.
Cool-as-hell new arrival: The Wizard of Oz, illustrated by British collage artist Graham Rawle.
Counterpoint Press; $29.95. IN STOCK.
New Favorite
Posted in Books, Excerpts with tags medicine, music, surgery on 25 September, 2008 by Jenna
I recently happened upon this fabulous collection of essays by Atul Gawande… come check it out on the ‘staff faves’ shelf. Gawande breaks down his experiences as a surgeon to illuminate the sheer complexity and irregularity of the body, and what it’s like to be just another fallible human being in a role where so many people expect infallibility. The best collection of essays I’ve read in years, hands-down, full of mysteries and miracles.
In surgery, as in anything else, skill and confidence are learned through experience–haltingly and humiliatingly. Like the tennis player and the oboist and the guy who fixes hard drives, we [doctors] need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.
-Complications, by Atul Gawande (Picador, $14), IN STOCK
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Also, a top seller in hardcover last year, Musicophilia is now in paperback. (Vintage, $14.95), IN STOCK.
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Domestic Army Unit Update
Posted in News on 25 September, 2008 by S&Co.Democracy Now had reported on a Domestic Army Unit.
Here is more about that. (With thanks to Jay and Angela.)
Also, here.
The way things are going, the government may need the DMA’s services sooner than they think.
“Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!”
Posted in News, Opinion with tags Bailout on 24 September, 2008 by S&Co.As Barney Fife so memorably said to Otis.
I don’t trust Bush I don’t trust him one bit. No one should. He has no business whatsoever issuing any warnings to the American people regarding our economy.
If they jam this through, it will be a fiasco.
Resist, people. Call your Senator.
Meet Tim Gallagher, Thursday, 4 pm.
Posted in Books, Events with tags Falcon Fever, Tim Gallagher on 23 September, 2008 by S&Co.
A slide presentation, discussion, and book signing with award-winning naturalist Tim Gallagher, author of The Grail Bird and Falcon Fever: A Falconer in the Twenty-first Century. 4 pm.
“Falcon Fever is the most delightful and fascinating magpie of a memoir, told with panache, verve, and honesty. I recommend it to anyone interested in birds, especially those who are passionate about hawks and falconry.”
– Tony Huston, screenwriter and falconer
“The ideal tonic to reinvigorate a nation distracted by laptops from its love for its natural heritage.”
– Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
