Hey, Bostonians. Via a comment at Edge of the West comes a link to this fascinating story of the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942, which killed 492 people in minutes. You know about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York and its repercussions; Cocoanut Grove had similar effects. The impact was national. Doctors learned …
Via Susie Madrak comes a link to Rolling Stone’s compilation of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. If ever there were a list guaranteed to promote argument, this is it. It includes a few jazz singers (no Bessie Smith! No Billie Holiday!), no opera singers (no Sills, Domingo, Caruso, Pavarotti!), and some odd choices …
My public library has an online presence, which makes it easy to request interesting books as I run across them rather than keeping a list and going there in person. I’ve discovered another handy tool, too: I can look up and sort the books I have out by due date, rather than go to the …
at Alice’s Restaurant. (YouTube video of Arlo, live)
I’m thankful for the family’s continued health this and every year. I’m thankful for the prospect of my country’s return to good health and sanity in 53 days. Happy Thanksgiving Day!
It’s 4:30pm Thanksgiving Eve. Have you cleaned your oven yet?
This seems accurate, even if it comes from an obviously biased source. Congress drove the Big Three CEOs out of Washington, D.C. last week, ordering them not to return with their tin cups until they could guarantee their companies would be viable after a $25 billion bailout. Just days later, Citigroup, a bank that had …
I finally got around to using the thing at Borders. Since I already own John Scalzi’s The Ghost Brigades and Old Man’s War, I picked up the third book in the trilogy, The Last Colony. I used the balance to get Neil Young’s Greatest Hits, which has some tracks not present on the other Neil …
Why is it that Citigroup is worthy of what looks to be a sweetheart deal, while the Big Three car companies are not? Is there some kind of class bias in favor of financial firms and their white-collar executives here?