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It's been a busy week or so as I've been balancing quite a bit in my "down time." I have been writing a bit on theIranian studentsfor some other sites and at the same time, I have been building a web archive of material related to theGreat Patriotic War(more on that project soon), plus I've devoted a bit of time todefending a blog articleI wrote for our site way back in April 2006. Now, it does tend bother me when I go too long without posting new material and I know we don't have a vast readership here, but now and again folks drop me a line to check on things if I'm too quiet. So, while I don't have anything terribly important to add to greeklish.org tonight, I will take a break from my other projects to post a few pictures...
Here's old Domino, fast asleep:
If you've never had the pleasure of meeting Domino, I will point out here that she is a big dog. She currently weighs about 65 pounds. You might notice that she has crammed her entire body into a dog bed that is actually intended for a 10 to 15 pound dog. The small bed belongs to Stupsi who weighs about 12 pounds or so. Domino's rather large bed is on the floor right next to Stupsi's bed. You can see it in the picture. It is completely empty. Sure, Domino could get up and plant herself on her own bed, which is probably much more comfortable because it is designed for a dog her size. But this is clearly a matter of principle. Stupsi is out of the picture, fast asleep on the cold, hard floor. Domino is still very much in charge of things around here.
Here's my desk after several nights of writing about the Iranian students, the Great Patriotic War and Dr. R.'s lecture:
1. The Teaching Company's Legacies of Great Economists lecture series on audiocassette 2. Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell 3. A History of the USSR, Part Three (Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1948) 4. History of the USSR, Part III (Progress Publishers, 1982) 5. Herr Vogt: A Spy in the Workers' Movement by Karl Marx (New Park, 1982) 6. Smokin' Banana Peels CD by The Dead Milkmen 7. Post card featuring the famous quote by Dom Helder Camara: "When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist." 8. Soviet-era museum placard featuring the slogan "Death to the fascist hordes!" (underneath are the books What is Dialectical Materialism? by O. Yakhot and Peace and Greece, Speeches by Dr. Ales Bebler) 9. Bumper sticker: "I'd rather be smashing imperialism" 10. Soviet Calendar: Thirty Years of the Soviet State (Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1948) 11. Rey Mysterio: The Biggest Little Man DVD set
When
I was in fourth grade, a classmate introduced me to a rather bizarre
book that he had found in our school's library. The book was "The Animated Thumbtack Railroad Dollhouse & All-Around Surprise Book (Evening Edition)"
by Louis Phillips and Lynn Braswell" and I had never seen anything
quite like it. The book was basically a hodgepodge of silliness,
irreverent jokes and strange black & white graphics. I absolutely
loved it. Over the course of my next few years at that school, I
checked it out a number of times. When I left the school, I suppose I
forgot about it for a long time although from time to time, I got the
urge to look around for it at libraries and bookstores, but I couldn’t
find another copy.
Several years ago, back when finding used books on the web was a bit more
difficult than it is today, I got the urge to seek out a copy of this
book to see if it was still as cool as I remembered it to be. An
initial search through Amazon.com netted a used copy for somewhere
around $110. I pretty much figured that I would never find an
affordable copy at that point, so I stopped looking for a while.
Imagine my surprise when I looked on Abebooks.com a few weeks ago and
found an ex-library copy for $10!
My copy of the book arrived in the mail a few weeks ago and it is
indeed just as I remembered. The book is quirky, eccentric, and
really, really funny. It starts with a dedication by author Louis
Phillips to " the one person who has stuck with me through thick and
thin and whose faith in my work is not diminished: ME." On the
Library of Congress info page at the beginning of the book, the reader
is advised that he/she is holding a "Deluxe Autographed Edition" of the
book which is signed by none other than William Shakespeare.
The narrator, or "host" of the book, is a character named Peter Gerard,
Esq. Mr. Gerard looks suspiciously like one of the knights from "Monty
Python and the Holy Grail." The illustrations in the book are a lot
like the illustrations in the "For Beginners" series (see "Einstein for
Beginners," "Marx for Beginners," "Darwin for Beginners," etc.),
as they include a fair amount of humorously captioned reproductions of
paintings, advertisements, et cetera. "Animated Thumbtack"
features number puzzles, historical trivia and information about
animals, including a series of pages devoted to ostriches. About
midway through the book, there is a feature called "The Real Life
Retreat Game" which is basically a two-page spread that resembles a
board game in which each space requires the player to go back 2 spaces.
One of my favorite features of the book is "The Peter Stuyvesant Two Heads Are Better Than One Page" which basically
just consists of the page title and several identical portraits of
Peter Stuyvesant. It’s funny because it makes absolutely no sense.
The book’s index includes an acknowledgment of the “Society of
Indexers” for “providing the proper index format and assisting in the
preparation of (the) index.” As for the index itself, here’s a
sample:
When
I was in fourth grade, a classmate introduced me to a rather bizarre
book that he had found in our school's library. The book was "
