Semicolon (Free subscription) | yesterday
“I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read towards the right and I recommend this method.” ~James Thurber Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books, the Hooray for October edition. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re reading or [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Rudy: (1993) Notre Dame fans love this inspirational film starring Sean Astin as a walk-on who gets his moment on the grid iron. The Male Animal: (1942) Henry Fonda plays the lead in this movie based on a play by James Thurber, a graduate of Ohio State, in...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Joe Biden said a few minutes ago that John McCain and Barack Obama voted "the exact same way" on a bill to raise taxes on people making more that $42,000/year. Not true. Senator McCain didn't vote on either bill. As James Thurber once wrote, "You could look it up." Barack Obama Voted Twice In Favor Of The Democrats' FY 2009 Budget Resolution That Would Raise Taxes On Those Making Just $42,000 A Year....
A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Not to be confused (please!) with another book of the same title, James Thurber's follow up to The Thirteen Clocks, The Wonderful O, which looks like this: and is being re-released by The New York Review Children's Collection next year.
Make It Great! with Phil Gerbyshak (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Two Quotes: "When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to." - N. Smith "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber Two Questions: Who have you given...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
... In plagiarism today . A slight quibble: Dick Cheney can be mean, but I don't think he's low about it. (That, I suppose, is like Harold Ross's defense of James Thurber, when someone called Thurber a "fifth-rate artist." "You mean 'third-rate,' " Ross replied.) And just a little pre-emption: This is just meant to be a bit of wise-cracking, not an opening for a serious political discussion. Spare...
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
One of James Thurber's better one-liners (probably a caption for a New Yorker cartoon) was: She heard Brazil was bigger than the United States; so she called the FBI! Our current Administration being what it is, we have to wonder whether or not the full force of the Department of Homeland Security may be directed at Brazil, now that they have discovered deepwater hydrocarbon fields that could make...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
...is a woman's touch. In the James Thurber sense, of course.Welcome, please, my co-blogger for the duration of the election campaign: Marie Ève. Bilingual, witty, forthright and as feminist as they come, she knows her way around the Canadian political terrain, and takes no prisoners. Her touch is, in fact, somewhat subtler than that of the fencer in the illustration--but just as deadly.Marie Ève has...
John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber
The Common Room (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Kurt, at I Perceive, has found a delightfully apt story while reading to his children. It's by James Thurber, who had a way with a parable . Kurt posted the story, and you really do not want to miss The Rabbit People Who Caused all the Trouble . Not only was the story wonderfully good, but I've been thinking of another animal story that parallels some of the FLDS related news and commentary. The Wolf...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The clash of egos and bickering, the partisan stalemate and its overall messiness contrast with the needs of the people, writes James Thurber
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
You don't hear much about James Thurber (1894-1961) anymore, and it's not just because the glory days of the New Yorker as a humor magazine are many decades in the past. His work is perennially in print, and his "Writings...
The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
The Last Flower - Drawings and Text by James Thurber Music - Requiem For A Dream soundtrack
Cooking With Ideas (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Even though James Thurber (1894-1961) once said "I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere" and I have always liked James Thurber, sometimes you need to escape on your own rather than spend...
Right Wing News (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
But it was really James Thurber who turned me on to this poem, which has been going through my head all day for obvious reasons: Barbara Frietchie By John Greenleaf Whittier On that pleasant morn of the early fall When...
