If you're you're an American guy of the male persuasion, you've undoubtedly seen Eldon Dedini's cartoon's in <I>Playboy</I> depicting lecherous, yet enchantingly innocent, satyrs and nymphs. He also drew storyboard art for Disney and regularly contributed cartoons to <I>Esquire</I> and <I>The New Yorker</I>.

Typically, I didn't discover Henry Green through reviews, a college class, or a bookstore display. Somebody left <I>Blindness</I> in the record store I worked in and, after it spent sufficient time in the lost and found box, I took it home one night when I'd run out of stuff to read.

For all you TinTin fans out there&mdash;an amazing piece of sculpture.

Are we hardwired to appreciate certain landscapes,stories, foods, and experiences? Denis Dutton argues that culture is not the whole story of art. Interesting essay, but this is an argument that's going to take a <I>lot</I> more space to make. I'm waiting for the book&mdash;but this article makes me want to read it.

Okay, no Lance this year, but the TDF is still going to be exciting. Ditto, the Tour de Georgia, even if it does venture into Tennessee.

James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia theory, is not optomistic about human life on earth.