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Book Review: Travis Elborough, “The Vinyl Countdown”
Travis Elborough – The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again (2009, Soft Skull) purchase from Amazon Okay, so the title triggers unbidden memories of a song most of us
Read More »Book Review: Robb Walsh, “Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover’s World Tour”
Robb Walsh – Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover’s World Tour (2009, Counterpoint) purchase this book (Amazon) To say that I’m not a foodie would be an act of extremely polite understatement. I
Read More »Bookshelf: John Carroll, “The Existential Jesus”
John Carroll – The Existential Jesus (2009, Counterpoint) purchase this book (Amazon) You can’t claim to offer an interpretation of the Gospel of Mark that claims to offer up hitherto unseen angles — or
Read More »Bookshelf: “The Mental Floss History of the World”
My World History teacher in high school, Mrs. Rivers, was less than efficient in her use of verbiage. While lecturing about the Peloponnesian Wars or the Roman aqueducts, she would adorn her stories with
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