“…Blame The Unconscious, I Guess” As mentioned a few Thurber Thursdays ago, I’ve been once again re-visiting Harrison Kinney’s massive James Thurber: His Life And Times. I happened upon this passage yesterday that I could easily identify with [it’s on page 421]. Thurber is speaking (in an interview with Kinney) about how his famous “house that merges into the head
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Latest Additions To The Spill Library Two additions this past week, a book by Nicholson Baker, and a book about death, edited by Mort Gerberg. First up, Mr. Baker’s Double Fold: Libraries And The Assault On Paper, published in 2001. I’m showing
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Debris caught in bare tree branches. (To me) the cover seems more like something that would appear in the Fall. Just sayin’. The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Seventeen cartoonists, seventeen cartoons.
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Cassettes, Anyone? Back in the late 1970s, early 1980s, cassettes seemed to be giving vinyl records a run for their money — they were the next big thing. Altho I had been buying vinyl albums for decades, the idea of the cassette — especially buying blank tapes and making your own mix — was appealing. I had the beginnings of
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