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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Follow the Money. Al’s Big Travel Book. September 8, 2014. Now that I’ve drawn the illustrations for my two latest books, I’m emboldened to try it again for the next one. AL’S BIG TRAVEL BOOK will tell the story of airline fees in pictures. That won’t be easy because fees are just abstractions until you actually hand over the money so nobody knows what they look like. Ah well, it’s humor. As they teach at summer writers’ conferences, ...
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Defying entropy since 1966. In Which We Rebuild Civilization from the Comfort of Our Living Room. The other night, Raymond and I were sitting around in our living room, which consists of our beloved plush brown sofa that we shipped from Pittsburgh to the West Coast, plus a few square feet of surrounding floor space. We’ve each got a folding tray table, supposedly for eating on, but instead we have piled them with our respective messes. We take our meals from plates that we hold in our laps. And he’s outs...
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Literary Aerie. Lemmas in Your Domicile. July 14, 2014. Some years ago, Dr. Steve and I took a couple of years of Latin in high school, partly because teachers said it would expand our vocabularies. If you know a little Latin, you get the meaning of agriculture or domicile even if you never heard of them. As it turns out, everyone has heard of agriculture. And domicile? So nobody uses that, either. True, one often finds oneself on the...
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. Splendor in the Grass. June 20, 2014. Report from the front. The oceanfront. Our associate editor Lynn writes from Cape Cod on the epic battle to repair bare spots in the lawn, as Nature intended. (NOTE: the word grass here refers to the East Coast, not the West Coast presumption of definition). It wasn’t all that easy, though. Soon the grass will flourish. Then the landscapers will finally arrive, look at each other, and say It looks...
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Editors of The Horse You Rode In On (listed below) hail from Boston, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All contributions are signed. When guest contributors are included, their comments will be signed in a manner consistent with their needs for discretion, witness protection, or yearning for personal adulation. Al’s Big Travel Book. September 8, 2014. Ah well, it’s humor. But back to the task at hand. The first drawing problem I have to solve is for a ...
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Titular Traps & Trappings |
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Skip to primary content. Titular Traps & Trappings. June 23, 2014. This is one of those non book reviews you find only on The Horse, where we throw up our hands at the thought of reading, much less analyzing, the millions of books being published willy-nilly these days. It’s beginning to look like Jorge Luis Borges’ Library of Babel, with an infinite number of books in random order. So here are two novels, both by Tom Rackman:. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers. Rackmann explains how he kept a separate s...
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Skip to primary content. Of ‘The Horse You Rode In On’ hail from Boston, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. Has authored books ( http:/ www.insteadofapes.com. Of such brilliance as to leave the New York Times stunned, speechless, and utterly unable to review them. He is six years older than god, thus finally has time to read and is appalled to discover what has been happening on his home planet. He is afraid it might be his fault. Http:/ www.vandine.biz/. Proudly powered by WordPress.
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. September 4, 2014. We should all be grateful for the Endangered Species Act — passed in 1973 under Richard Nixon of all people, back before Congress had turned over the legislative function to lobbyists and upheld by the Supreme Court before that august council had become an extension of the Republican National Committee. To err is human, but stretching the truth by 50 million percent is unacceptable. Yet despite all these virtuous impulses, there are o...
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Bizarre Beliefs |
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Bizarre Beliefs. July 23, 2014. I’m sure I’ve seen this quotation (and most others) attributed to Yogi Berra or Mark Twain, but I just saw it laid at the feet of theoretical physicist Neils Bohr:. Prediction is difficult, especially about the future. Quantifying risk began shortly after Fibonacci introduced Arabic numbers to replace hard-to-calculate Roman numerals. Innovations in risk-assessment proceeded through the centuries, mainl...
