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Light reading (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
At Slate, Paul Collins on ten of the oddest travel guides ever published . Number one on the list: The Truth About Hunting in Today's Africa, and How To Go on Safari for $690.00 , by George Leonard Herter (1963) Equal parts Hemingway and Cliff Clavin, mail-order hunting goods retailer George Herter was one of America's great oddball writers. His self-published guide—bound in tiger-print cloth—is a...
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The Bluegrass Ireland Blog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Vincent Cross (above; photo by Paul Collins ) reports from New York: I've been meaning to drop you a line about all things bluegrass and events in NYC. There is always plenty to see and to hear for sure. Firstly, I will be over for two gigs in August. I won't be bringing the full band but will have some special guests up... August 10th: Monroe's Tavern (Function room), 9.00-11.00 p.m. in Galway August...
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
For Slate, Paul Collins named the "10 [travel guidebooks] that are so transfixingly odd that they've remained readable long beyond their original itineraries." One title on the list:Travel Guide of Negro Hotels and Guest Houses, by Afro-American Newspapers (1942) Like The Negro Motorist Green-Book, the Travel Guide captures an era when African-Americans had to be mindful of where they
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Listen Up (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
I had no idea until I started molding this playlist that just about half the songs were stylistic or lyrical tributes to other artists. Add in a couple of actual covers and an instant theme sprang into being. > Pick...
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Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Aussie McLean has resigned as Hurricanes assistant coach with immediate effect.
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Sarah Lueck reports on Congress. The reverberations from Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Steven's seven count indictment Tuesday were quickly felt on Capitol Hill, with at least one Republican colleague already announcing that she wouldn’t keep $10,000 in campaign contributions from the scandal-tainted Alaskan . A spokesman for Sen. Elizabeth Dole's campaign said the North Carolina Republican would [...]...
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Every summer house should have on its dusty potluck shelves, in among the Agatha Christie and the John D. MacDonald and the J. K. Rowling, a copy of Paul Collins’ Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn’t Change the World (Picador, $15), an almanac of delusion, failure and heroically misguided enterprise. Isn’t vacation the best vantage from which to contemplate the sheer waste of epic...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm Equiteq has launched a new strategic planning tool for
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Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Other aspects of World Youth Day 2008 have been discussed in previous posts which can be accessed here. In this post, I’d like to concentrate on why it is being held in Sydney at all. Dr Paul Collins is probably one of the best known commentators on Catholic affairs in Australia. A former priest, he had [...]
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What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Some video from Australia. I find in this piece from World News Australia to be a bit polemical. [flv]08_07_13_B16_arrives_austr01.flv[/flv]More of the same. This video has the Pope answering a question on the airplane about the sexual abuse situation in Australia. Again, this is a hostile new piece.Commentor "theologian" Paul Collins is an ex-priest who oganized [...]
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Murky.org (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The company that manufactures the Oyster cards for London has lost its contract due to its connection with the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. The Spectator (obvious Boris link alert) says: “This is welcome news, companies that work with the Mugabe regime should pay a heavy price for their actions.” The Evening Standard (linked above) reports: Human rights campaigners [...]
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About Last Night (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
I read Paul Collins' article in Slate about the decline and fall of the semicolon with interest and amusement....
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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Either everyone in the Fray went to the same school, or else those pesky English professors have a lot to answer for—a surprising number of posters say their teacher told them not to use the semi-colon, the punctuation mark fighting for its life in Paul Collins "Culturebox" article here. Karlilfishnu's professor said that three semi-colons was a lifetime's supply. John123 wasn't having any nonsense...
