I actually own and have sort of started Shirer's classic, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which I bought for a buck at a thrift store next to the S-Mart Foods in Stockton. …
The other night, as I waited for a campus shuttle at Bancroft and Telegraph -- as I have a hundred times -- I saw for the first time that the cement bears pawprints.
"Oh, now we see the violence inherent in the system!" What a great movie, Holy Grail. Before the film, Robin and I should have done reading for our classes, but instead we talked about books …
I went to a showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail today with Robin at some history students' society showing. I'd forgotten how enjoyable it is! A history professor spoke a bit before and …
My current fun-book is Robert Kanigel's The One Best Way, a biography of Frederick W. Taylor. An offhanded remark about transcendentalists seized me -- what's the name of the transcendentalist journal that Emerson started? Ah, …
I now have the address of Mr. Berkowitz, after some rather desultory time at classmates.com. I'll send him a letter soon.
A week ago, whilst helping Jeana and her cooking partner prepare dinner, I was listening to a commercial radio station. Quite rare, for me. I only burst out laughing a few times. One ad for …
George Orwell wrote in "Politics and the English Language" that incompatible metaphors are frequently mixed, a sure sign that the writer is not interested in what he is saying. Some metaphors now current have been …
I went to the Allston Way post office today and, after waiting several minutes and filling out a short form, received the $3.40 in first-class stamps that I tried to buy from a vending machine …
Even if I move outside of Northern California after I graduate, I'll still keep reading Jon Carroll's column in the San Francisco Chronicle.
