To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
This has been atop the boxes of audio courses that I have in my office closet since I bought it in 2024 at the Friends of the Christian County Library sale at the Nixa branch (which is this month, come to think of it). I have been a little reluctant to delve into it because […]
The Other McCain (remembered now maybe more than the McCain) has a whole post tripping off his use of the word wont. Ah, gentle reader. I use that word regularly, at least the noun form, as a search of this blog indicates (last usage: February 21, 2026 in a book review for Guide to Quality […]
For the 2026 Winter Reading Challenge‘s “Translated” category, gentle reader, you might have expected me to pick up a martial arts book of some sort as that is my wont. But, ah! My translated martial arts books are getting a little thin, and the adjacent material that I have is pretty deep and dense for […]
So for the In a Different Country category of the 2026 Winter Reading Challenge, when I was gathering prospective reads for the categories, I grabbed Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People, a literary novel elevating the bleks and putting white South Africans in their place which I read in college (in a copy I might have borrowed […]
As is my wont, I am cutting off my “annual reading” in this, the week after Christmas, and am starting anew the count. I won’t pick up anything too long this week since the 2026 Winter Reading Challenge starts in January. But I am picking out books and stacking them up for that time period, […]
I thought I might have mentioned the story about Curt, the guy who ran the Didde-Glaser printing press next to mine on second shift, somewhere along the line, but I cannot find it on the blog. Curt would come in at 3pm when the rest of us were getting off, and he was known to […]
Unlike The Last Christmas Show, this is a Christmas novel, one I bought in September 2024 to spread among my stacks so when the season rolled around I would be able to find a Christmas novel to read as is my wont. This short book (181 pages, but the print surface of them is small) […]
The FTP client didn’t sqwauk at me when I uploaded the cover image, so I thought maybe I’d not written a book report on this book before. But, no, I did read it and report on it in 2011–but in the days before I posted cover images of the books (because I wanted to link […]
Tuesday, at 9:30, the youngest came down the stairs after work and sought a business self-improvement book for a project due that night. He’s the one who said, in fourth grade, that whatever book Ms. Cole was going to assign them to read, we already had a copy of it. So he was pretty confident […]
It was only three memes at View from the Porch, and yet I felt targeted. Back around the turn of the century, I was a technical writer with prodigious output even though I am not a home-row touch-typist (even today). One Friday afternoon, my password came to the end of its 90-day lifetime, so I […]
Well, it’s not hard to spot because William F. Vallicella names it in his title Philosophy from the Twilight Zone “The Lonely”. I have seen it relatively recently because I started running through the first season on DVD a couple years ago, but petered out after a while as is my general wont with television […]
A couple of years ago, when I was still driving my youngest to youth group (before he could drive himself), I would get to the church to pick him up a little early (as is my wont for all things). This particular summer evening, I had the windows down, and I was listening to the […]
I always thought it would be one of Lileks’ posts about the bottom records of a distant era or thrift store vinyl where I would find one of the Nogglestead record library. But, no, it’s Jack Baruth who posted an image of Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson’s 1980 in a post from the beginning of […]
Technically, this is not so much a Good Book Hunting post as I really only bought a couple books. I dragged my youngest away from his video games for a couple hours yesterday to head up to the sale’s Half Price day, where records, DVDs, and most books were fifty cents each. First, we hit […]
I mentioned a while back that my father and I both enjoyed the music of Billy Joel. I’ve also mentioned on occasion that my boys, especially my youngest, listens to a basic playlist of 70s and 80s music that includes not only selections from the Guardians of the Galaxy movie soundtracks but also a number […]
I have to say that this is the best novel based on country-and-western album liner notes that I have ever read. Apparently, Brooks & Dunn’s albums had some stories featuring Slim & Howdy in the liner notes. Gentle reader, I gathered my Brooks & Dunn albums in those dark days of audiocassettes, which contained liner […]
ABC Books had another book signing yesterday, so of course I went. I brought along my youngest who came along only because of the promise of lunch at a restaurant (which is kind of a tradition). So up we went in the early afternoon. I was pleased to see the martial arts section was restocked. […]
Not exactly a Good Book Hunting or Good Album Hunting post per se, although that’s ultimately what it comes down to. I have started hitting garage sales and estate sales again here and there, gentle reader. I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for–well, a table/entertainment center to replace a printer stand and maybe a […]
Ah, gentle reader, I had a hard time writing this particular book report. For this young woman is a New York Times best-selling author, and she has appeared on numerous television programs and many venues, reading her poetry to large live audiences. And, as you might know, I have self-published a collection of poetry (Coffee […]
We lost Athena on Sunday night. Lost makes it sound so simple.