Odds and Ends
December 7th, 2004Great review of The Final Solution and preview of Mitch Cullin’s A Slight Trick of the Mind.
Rhys Hughes, an underappreciated Welsh writer of comic fantasy, has a blog. Check out Hughes’ excellent The New Universal History of Infamy if you haven’t already. It is a beautiful, well edited book, if I may say so myself.
Alex Toth Mad at Cartoon Network?
Steven King and Stewart O’Nan’s Faithful, their collaboration about the 2004 Red Sox, is “boring from beginning to end.” Do you hear that? It’s me yawning while just thinking about it.
Jeff takes up The Wilco Book.
Thanks to either idiocy or genius on my part regarding the planning of floating holidays, I don’t have to work more than three days in a row for the rest of the month. But I do have to particpate in an office-wide “Secret Santa” and buy a present for someone about whom I know absolutely nothing. Plus, hello, I’m Jewish! Bah humbug.