It's almost a shame. There's room for only one.

Because it has just been too long since I posted anything about Harry Beck's iconic <A HREF="http://www.clarksbury.com/cdl/maps/tube38.jpg">London Tube Map</A> and I gets all itchy when that happens.

"Imagine that your only contact with 'English' as a subject was through classes in school. Suppose that those classes, from elementary school right through to high school, amounted to nothing more than reading dictionaries, getting drilled in spelling and formal grammatical construction, and memorizing vast vocabulary lists&mdash;you <I>never</I> read a novel, nor a poem; never had contact with anything beyond the pedantic complexity of English spelling and formal grammar, and precise definitions for an endless array of words."

This 10-minute F. Lyle Goldman/Max Fleischer cartoon about how talking pictures work is full of interest for us audiophiles. Vintage technology, vacuum tubes, and Western Electric Research Project humor&mdash;what's not to love?

Remember when <I>Rolling Stone</I> actually wrote about music? Me neither.

I gotta say, if <i>I</i> had a summer to while away and found <a href="http://jobview.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=55707806">this job opportunity</a>, I'd be all over it, too.

Unconventional portraits of US presidents, the works in <I>Mr. President</I> "run the gamut from irreverent humor to deeply felt homage."