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Oops, I did it again. We’re driving down Elm onto an errand and a couple of garage sales, and my beautiful wife sees the sign at the church up ahead: Book Fair. “It’s dollar bag day,” I said. “Do you want to stop?” she asked. I stopped. An hour or so later, I ask if […]
Kim du Toit starts it up again by showing off half of his book collection. Me, I don’t have time to update it with the new bookshelves, but here’s the Noggle Library in February 2008, before book fair season. I don’t know why I bother trash talking when comparing our library to the bibliophile libraries […]
On Wednesday, I found a yard sale and received a book I’d ordered off the Internet. Here they are: The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, a book about the conquest of the Mexica written by one of the conquistadores. The bite of the Porch Girl continues. The Caretakers by Tabitha King. That’s my second book […]
Funny how the periods overlap; this book, written within a year of The End of the Night, is definitely a throwback to earlier detective fiction and the MacDonald book foreruns the more modern mystery (as does all of MacDonald’s work). Sure, this book is one in a series with a two-fisted action hero whose name […]
Oops, I did it again. Today, the J had its book fair in the same room as in past years, but this year the room seemed dimmer. The books certainly were in great disarray, making it hard to browse quickly in the near-dark. However, I managed to find a few just fine: Click for full […]
Another month, another Critical Mass event includes beating a four wheeler, this time in Seattle: According to Jamieson, as the Critical Mass group moved down the street, blocking traffic, some riders got in the way of the Subaru and prevented it from leaving. Some bikers sat on the car and were banging on it, he […]
You know, once might have been enough. Fresh from reading The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales, I jumped right into this book by another American author to see if my thesis that I could read American vernacular with more pleasure than the British was true. Apparently, it’s not unflinchingly true, as Hawthorne’s stories […]
Previously on State Run Health Care Lost: State-run health care in Wisconsin begins denying coverage to the most vulnerable, i.e., expensive, “clients”. Now, another state with universal health care begins its rationing: Treatment of advanced cancer meant to prolong life, or change the course of this disease, is not covered by the Oregon Health Plan, […]
I picked this book up a couple years ago at Hooked on Books in Springfield for 33 cents. It’s taken me until this month to get to it simply because the title was so, well, bland. The book centers on Ned Allen, a regional sales director for a computer magazine who finds out he’s in […]
On May 10, I posted the picture of the LOL gas price sign on Clayton Road. On May 23, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch posts a picture. Sure, it’s clearer, but it’s theoretically a professional photographer and he or she was not driving a temporarily unionized wife to the hospital. Kudos to them for not explicitly […]
Sorry, I seem to have deployed some confusing sarcasm with this post. Here’s how the Kansas City Star‘s Prime Buzz characterizes it: Musings from Brian J. Noggle contends that cutting the most expensive people from the public health care rolls is not a solution. Allow me to be clear: The solution is to cut them […]
Variable speed limits set to begin on I-270: Starting Thursday morning, the Missouri Department of Transportation will begin a two-year experiment with variable speed limits along Interstate 270. Motorists might have already noticed the digital speed limit signs that began popping up along the Missouri stretch of the highway in recent weeks. So far, those […]
Via Dustbury, I again have an opportunity to list some books and identify what I’ve read. Apparently, this is some list of books people tend to own just so they look smart. The schtick is as follows: What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As […]
In retrospect, Tamara K. was not recommending this book at all. She mistook it for something else. This is not a Stewart Cowley book, this is a Steven Eisler book. I didn’t expect Tam would remember fondly a book that called Robert A. Heinlein a fascist. Okay, here’s what we have: a book of unrelated […]
Robert J. Samuelson, economic columnist for the Washington Post, usually offers sensible advice on economics. However, in this column about oil prices, he proffers the following dangerous aside: (And yes, we need a gradually rising fuel tax to create a strong market for more-efficient vehicles.) You know, I find it terribly inconsistent that so many […]
So this weekend marked the first really dangerous book fair of the season: The St. John’s United Church of Christ book fair. We went to this one last year, so I knew what to expect: I picked up a box right when I went through the door instead of pretending I was only going to […]
In response to comments in this post, I hereby present the state of the Noggle Library 2008 post. Back in the day, Kim du Toit posted a picture of his home library (on his old blog, obliterated at some point before he resurfaced with his current blog. I posted the first Noggle Library post in […]
Following the “coincidence” yesterday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch identifies another suspicious bit of serendipity: Click for full size Foul play suspected in Chesterfield death McCain will visit Chesterfield today I’m beginning to see a sordid pattern in the behavior of our elected officials and their visits to the Midwest.
As I insinuated in the book review for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, this book takes the script of the movie and what I know if it and goes a little beyond it. Okay, a lot beyond it. And she’s the author who gave Mr. Sulu his name, which according to Wikipedia became […]
I have been tagged by a meme! I don’t know if I have ever been done so before. Thanks to St. Wendeler of Another Rovian Conspiracy, I’ve answered the following: Wrapping or gift bags? Gift wrapping. I was a bagger for a couple years in college, so it’s hard for me to respect the “effort” […]