Tag “Shark Week”
The Blogcrawl
A collection of assorted things I’ve seen on the blogs I read regularly:
Mark at Going Like Sixty is the only person I’ve read so far who noticed that Roy Scheider, who starred in “Jaws” thirty-odd years ago, died on the same day as the Discovery Channel’s “Shark Sunday”
One of the best blogs ever, the inimitable Mister Pants, may or may not be back after a two-year hiatus. I sure hope he is, but that latest post is now almost a month old with nothing to follow up.
After Mitt Romney dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, a regular at Talking Point Memo wondered out loud if his military-age sons would now go and enlist. (Previously the Mittster, when asked why his sons weren’t serving in Iraq, said they were helping defend America by working on his campaign.) Oh, and by the by, did ANYONE notice that Ron Paul dropped out over the weekend so he could run for re-election to Congress? Didn’t think so.
Internet and marketing guru Seth Godin had a very interesting post about the business of marketing food, which was a totally non-existent field prior to World War II, but holds a dominant place in our economy and in our cultural perceptions of food. There’s a book brewing in this post, to be sure.
Lastly, fellow fountain pen aficionados will probably enjoy this essay by English professor Paula Marantz Cohen, wherein she considers the psychology and the symbolic potential of the fountain pen. She says a friend has been trying to convince her to buy one, so she writes from the perspective of someone who doesn’t own a fountain pen — some of her thoughts and observations are well-considered, but anyone who owns and collects them will probably recognize the clunkers right away. I hope she bought the pen.