SpringCon Comic Book Convention
Comic nerds will be invading the State Fairgrounds on Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 5 PM.
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4 Books I Just Bought, Can’t Wait To Read, But Probably Won’t Get Around To For Another Year
Four books: This Is Your Brain On Music; The Artist, The Philosopher, And The Warrior; The American Civil War; and Revolutionary Deists.
Read MoreMinneapolis Bridge Collapse: The Book
The U of M Press has released a book dealing with the 35W bridge collapse, The City, the River, the Bridge: Before and after the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse.
Read MoreThe Great Gatsby…For NES
Someone created an emulated Flash version of The Great Gatsby video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Read MoreThe Book Every Democratic Consultant Must Read
Every Democratic consultant in the country should read Drew Westen’s The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.
Read MoreA Scanner Darkly
There’s a new movie coming out called A Scanner Darkly that’s based on the novel by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Watch the trailer.
Read MoreGerhard Weinberg & The Secret Dialogue Of Footnotes
I’m one of those geeks who reads books with two bookmarks. Not always, but I’ll decide whether I need two bookmarks when I start a new non-fiction book by scanning the footnotes section. I read footnotes. There, I said it. I have one bookmark to mark the page I’m currently reading and the other to…
Read MoreMaureen Dowd
New York Times columnist and unofficial Bush family psychologist Maureen Dowd is out selling her new book, Bushworld. I saw her on Real Time with Bill Maher and, man does she look uncomfortably out of her element; she seems very awkward and almost at pains to answer interview questions. For someone who has been reading…
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