by Mark Christian | Jun 18, 2010 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
We write to taste life twice, in the moment & in retrospect – Anais Nin A word from our kindred sponsor – David Mamet – about ratings & reviews: “The poker player learns that sometimes both science & common sense are wrong; that the...
by Mark Christian | Apr 7, 2010 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Addendum to the Sections on Africa and Hispaniola The history of slavery involves a near-universal complicity: [1] Muslims were conveniently prohibited from enslaving other Muslims & had to overcome any religious scruples by adopting an anti-Golden Rule, which...
by Mark Christian | Jan 10, 2010 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Ancient Variety grown in a cenote in Yucatán, Mexico (photo Ray Major)
by Mark Christian | Dec 13, 2009 | Book Reviews, Middle Shelf |
Get it on Amazon Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures (“SGPP”) – a title that resounds as an answer back at RC Zaehner’s Mysticism, Sacred & Profane (1961) & whose subtitle faintly echoes Tomas Hurtados’ Chocolate y Tobaco Ayuno Eclesiastico y Natural...
by Mark Christian | Nov 20, 2009 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
More than just Kansas begs this question – the title of Thomas Frank’s political diatribe against that heartland state (as if there’s nothing wrong with Manhattan). Still, he has a point; as does this entry. It’s been a while since a bar from...
by Mark Christian | Oct 31, 2009 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
… in a word – dead. The second thought that immediately comes to mind: decomposed. Scores of no name (that’s OK) / low game (at an event with this rep that should be no way) players. Candy & confection ruled the roost – appropriate for...
by Mark Christian | Aug 4, 2009 | Middle Shelf |
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection A scholarly compendium for which the title is the synopsis. McNeil has convened a symposium of world-class scholars. The book gets off to a halting start on the tree’s botany that suffers from an...
by Mark Christian | Aug 3, 2009 | Middle Shelf |
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection Good title. Good chapter headings too: Night of the Living Freak; Last Man in America with Black Jack Gum; In the Belly of the Freak; Southbound with the Hammers Down – Southern-Fried Freak;...
