November 27, 2002 Archive

Culture

• Heroes and Thanks

  in Culture — by Eric Olsen — on Nov 27, 2002

• Through the Looking Glass

  in Culture — by Solonor Rasreth — on Nov 27, 2002

• Carnival of the Vanities - The Ten Horned Beast

  I cooked them scrambled eggs and made sure they had enough beer. Dad regaled them with a story from his childhood where he conned a man into buying a bag of turds for a dime and the wife's head popped off and flew around the room, shrieking imprecations at the heavens.

  in Culture — by Bigwig — on Nov 27, 2002

Music

• Hard Wired for Music

  in Music — by Jim Carruthers — on Nov 27, 2002

Books

• Big Game, Small World

  Alexander Wolff sets out to investigate the state of basketball around the world, visiting sixteen different countries, from Canada, where Dr. James Naismith (the inventor of the game) was born, to Bhutan, where the king has a daily pick-up game with the Royal Guards, to Angola and Bosnia, where the games go on in spite of bloody civil wars.

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Nov 27, 2002

• The Apocalypse Door

  "Yeah, I'm a Knight of the Temple. We didn't go away in the fourteenth century, no matter what Phillip the Fair tried to pull. The Order has a mission and we're carrying it out."

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Nov 27, 2002

• The Reptile Room

  The Events are Unfortunate, and part of a Series chronicling the unfortunate story of the unlucky Baudelaire children.

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Nov 27, 2002

• Summerland

  Michael Chabon adds another book to the list of literary novels about the mystic significance of baseball.

  in Books — by Chad Orzel — on Nov 27, 2002