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Brooklyn Overlook
As Jeff Wong and I took our daily constitutional along Brooklyn's Greenbelt this morning, we spotted these colorful boulders along the shore. You never know who you're going to run across in this borough.
The Language of Homer
How The Simpsons has embiggened the English language.
Stephen King on Harry Potter
Now that the dust has settled on The Deathly Hallows, Stephen King weighs in on the series and on J. K. Rowling. King, of course, is one of the few fiction authors who can write about Rowling's success without bitterness, and his thoughts on Rowling's craft are sharp. He also knows just a little bit about toiling in the genre-novel wilderness.
No Worries Here
"I wasn't scared," says Huckleberry. "I've seen Bagheera royally PO'd." Actually, he's generally the cause.
Welcome to Our Alien Overlords
Oh, it's just Bagheera.
Reelin' In the Years
Skunk Baxter has a new gig. After all, Steely Dan goes for years between tours.
Starring Bruce Willis as the Jeep
Jon Carroll has a fine columnhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/…; this morning (no surprise there) that meanders from his thoughts on Die Hard (very Aristotlian) to the making of the Jeep and how the humvee influences our presence in Iraq.
Deep Linkage
Cafe Aman posts an Antonio Machado poem, thanking Osvaldo Golijov for introducing him to it. I wish I could name drop OG—I think that he and Jennifer Higdon are the most consistently satisfying composers writing today.
Hits and Misses
I'm a total Neil Gaiman fanboy, so I'm giddy with anticipation of the theatrical release of Stardust tomorrow. I just re-read the book and was delighted to find it as charming as when I first devoured it in 1999.