Today I decided to check out some blogrolls from various other blogs and came upon Burning Building, the brainchild of Isaac Marion in Seattle. Marion’s site appears to combine various talents but is clearly dominated by his writing, which of late, is quite humorous.
Give it a look - at least for yesterday’s “Happy Birthday [...]
Category Archives: Literature
Burning Building
Monday, August 11, 2008
Guano-Paper and Fancy Feast
Monday, March 10, 2008
Mugs is writing some more. Do check out his site, but especially read, “Why I’m Jealous of My Son.”
The Truth
Thursday, February 7, 2008
I don’t know if this is the worst idea in the world, or the most awesome. Though it appears to be largely a compendium of what we already know…
Kitchen Confidential
Friday, January 18, 2008
Last night I finished reading Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. This book was easily one of the funniest volumes I’ve read in the past several years. Coarse, profane, yet insightful - this book is less an exposé of the commercial kitchen than of the author himself. Bourdain shares expertly crafted anecdotes about his [...]
Proust Obsession
Thursday, January 17, 2008
DANG. It’s weird how so many trends (or dare I say…MEMES?!??) permeate teh webs. Wait, no, it’s not weird. Sometimes it’s kind of annoying.
Now I’ve written about this before, and I’m just as guilty of riding the trendy train sometimes (though usually in the caboose). Well now, the flavor of the [...]
Glengarry Glen Ross
Friday, January 11, 2008
Last night I started and subsequently got sucked into David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross - his drama which won the Pulitzer in 1984. This short play (2 acts, about 100 pages) feels like a series of rapid-fire conversations which demonstrate the lengths to which desperate and/or ambitious men will go for their ends. [...]
Book Crazy
Thursday, January 3, 2008
My father gave Valerie and I a spot of currency for Christmas, and I’ve decided to use a portion of it for several books I’ve had on my mind. Here’s the short stack:
1. Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - This is the book that, as I understand, identified Anthony Bourdain [...]
Death of a Salesman
Friday, December 28, 2007
Merry Christmas to me. One of my Christmas gifts from Mugs and his wife was Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”. WOW.
I’ve read through it for the first time during this past week, and now that I’m back in Richmond I plan to re-read it with a pencil for note taking. I [...]
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Tonight I finished reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Let me start by reiterating that I generally have trouble reading non-fiction. Consequently I have stayed mainly in the realm of the imaginary, save for the occasional essay. If this book, then, has accomplished one thing, it has shown me that non-fiction narrative [...]
