Something pretty cool is going on right now — and most of you, unlike poor beleaguered high school students, are probably old enough to appreciate it, because in my opinion this is a book that requires some life-experience to truly cherish. From a story on Slate.com:
For many, fall is the perfect time to snuggle up with a weighty literary classic, but Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick may not be the most popular choice. The imposing novel is notorious for its lengthy digressions, wide-ranging allusions, and, for some, unappealing subject matter. But a new project called the Moby-Dick Big Read is delivering Melville’s American epic in a new way: one chapter each day read aloud by people from various walks of life—including some you have probably heard of—and made available, for free, on the Internet.
Author Phillip Hoare—who has written his own whale book—and artist Angela Cockayne launched the project back in September, with the first chapter, and its famous first words, “Call me Ishmael,” lovingly delivered by actress Tilda Swinton.
That’s the Moby-Dick Big Read at http://www.mobydickbigread.com/. If you’ve never read this Great American novel, now you can have a bunch of people do it for you. The linked article offers some interesting samples from the various readers — like John Waters and Richard Attenborough.
While you’re waiting for that big boy, this is your Weekend Open Thread. Talk about what you will.
http://www.kfiam640.com/player/?station=KFI-AM&program_name=podcast&program_id=BillHandel.xml&mid=22520859
KFI seems to be confusing Joe Wolfe with Jay Cicinelli at some points in this discussion.
*Avast Captain Ahab……..thar she blows…… (forgive us for extending “Speak like a land lubber week” or was that “Speak like a Pirate!”?)
Greg, you still a member of Occupy? We gonna see you at the Sunday picnic? I’ll be sober!!! and nice.
Of course I am still with Occupy. I’ve been in touch with Linda S. about all of this. I’ll be posting a story on the picnic tomorrow and attending on Sunday. You can bring Gustavo, but please not his monkey.
Saw the Blue Angels at the Miramar Air Show yesterday. Always a great performance, and they greatly improved the traffic flow in and out of the base.
Go see your tax dollars hard at work.
You need to spank that monkey Greg!
Thanks for the diagnosis, doctor.
reminder
Military Tribute Days
Knott’s annual tribute to our Military, past and present, starts November 1st. FREE admission for Veterans or current serving military personnel and one guest with proper I.D. presented at turnstile. Plus purchase up to six additional tickets for just $19 each! Ends November 21.
As someone is now posting comments under my name in FFFF, I guess that I now have to post the ones I’ve actually written here so that the difference is clear. People should feel welcome to skip this and subsequent comments; they’re basically for the public record.
My initial comment there today (to one by “Real Liberal”):
“In a time of emergency, some unusual political coalitions come together. In this case, the emergency is Tony’s Gang of Three wanting to bankrupt the city so as to sell off its assets — made explicit last night — and create a economically libertarian low-governance Ethiopian-style paradise.
“You mischaracterize the attacks with which liberals are allowed. [sic — meant to write “aligned” or something.] (No liberal was pushing to slam Whitaker for smoking pot.) Meanwhile, one thing real liberals do when they pronounce that sort of bill of grievances is to use their own name. You won’t — because you actually aren’t one.”
I then added to that:
“The response beginning “in a time of emergency” is mine. All of the rest following are by someone using my name without permission and without flagging the identity theft for readers. The managers of this site can verify it by comparing URLs. (I’d love to know the URL of the imposter, but I doubt they’ll provide it.) Because someone has now sunk this low, everyone please don’t presume that, if a comment has my name, it necessarily comes from me. I’ll copy my comments to the most recent open thread at OJB to confirm that they’re mine.
“I’d ask people to condemn this kind of cowardly bullshit, but I’ve learned not to expect that you will.”
The comments that were posted by an imposter, each responding to the last, were:
That’s FFFF politics for you.