Year: 2017

• A Librarian’s Guide to ‘The Simpsons’

  In what’s quickly becoming a regular hobby, I went screengrab-hunting on Frinkiac, this time for anything library- or book-related. The result:

  Jan 23, 2017

  # Frinkiac, librarians, libraries, television, The Simpsons

• The President of My Twenties

  Just after Obama was inaugurated in 2009, I wrote a reflection about George W. Bush’s place in my life as “the president of my youth.” I was a junior in college then, and had just voted for the first time. It was my first and only vote for Obama (I voted Libertarian in 2012), but the Obama…

  Jan 18, 2017

  # America, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, gun control, Hillary Clinton, Jerry Seinfeld, politics, presidents, White House

• Towards Integrity

  Jan 17, 2017

  # Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Solnit, technology, typecast, typewriters

• Typewriters in ‘The Simpsons’

  Frinkiac, a searchable archive of seventeen seasons worth of Simpsons screengrabs, ought to be in the Internet Hall of Fame. After using it to look up some old favorites, I searched for anything typewriter-related, and here’s what came up: And of course Wiggam with his invisible typewriter:

  Jan 6, 2017

  # Frinkiac, television, The Simpsons, typewriters

• Winter was always winter

  Edwin Way Teale, Wandering Through Winter: Winter is a time of superlative life. Frosty air sets our blood to racing. The nip of the wind quickens our step. Creatures abroad at this season of the year live intensely, stimulated by cold, using all their powers, all their capacities, to survive. Gone is the languor of August…

  Jan 5, 2017

  # books, nature, quotes, seasons, winter

• Favorite Films of 2016

  According to my records I watched 83 films in 2016, 33 of which came out this year. As is the case with my reading, I’m in a “watch as much as I can” zone because I love movies and there’s so much great stuff and there are too many movies and I’ll never have this…

  Jan 3, 2017

  # Arrival, best of, Coen Brothers, film, Hell Or High Water, Jeff Nichols, lists, Marvel, Moonlight, movies, review, Richard Linklater, The Wave

• Favorite Books of 2016

  According to my records I read more than ever in 2016. Partially this was due to starting as a book reviewer for two library trade journals, thus increasing the volume of pages coming my way. But I also made more time overall for reading, because I love it and I work at a library and…

  Jan 2, 2017

  # Batman, best of, books, Candice Millard, Chuck Klosterman, Glen Weldon, Hope Jahren, lists, Nick Offerman, Paul Kalanithi, review, Rod Dreher, Scandinavia, Steven Johnson, telegraphy, Winston Churchill