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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
I heard the Clash's "London Calling" at Walgreen's a while back. They probably wanted me to stock up on batteries and bottled water.
If it had been followed by the Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime," I would have known for sure (and I would have picked up some peanut butter). :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
Anybody else read the piece about the pencil people in the Nov. 2 "Talk of the Town"? I enjoyed that.
So Eberhard Faber was one single real person.
Jeff Wrangler:
The Nov. 9 article about Icelandic rescue teams is fun. With names like Halli and Palli, the people sound like Tolkienian dwarves.
I wonder whether they have trees in Iceland? Does anybody know? ???
Jeff Wrangler:
Of course as usual I'm weeks behind in my magazines, but if anyone skipped over the Nov. 23 article "Unfollow: Biblical fundamentalism meets Twitter," I recommend going back and reading it. I was expecting something ho-hum when I started it, so imagine my surprise and fascination to find out that it's about a granddaughter of the infamous Fred Phelps! I'm finding it fascinating.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 24, 2015, 02:05:56 pm ---The Nov. 9 article about Icelandic rescue teams is fun. With names like Halli and Palli, the people sound like Tolkienian dwarves.
I wonder whether they have trees in Iceland? Does anybody know? ???
--- End quote ---
I thought it was kind of fun, too. Not quite my first choice in stories, but a cut above duty.
I passed on a link to a coworker who had just gone on a trip to Iceland after years of wanting to visit. I never heard back from her. People in corporate America are so weird. Wouldn't you just send back a quick courteous "Thanks, this looks interesting," even if you never actually read it?
Now I'm reading Kathryn Schulz's piece about weather in literature. It's mildly interesting. But wow, is she well-read. Either that, or she's really good at Google searches and Lexus-Nexus.
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