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Rabbis, Incompetent and Feisty

Posted in books, film, Jews on December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

To the always already caffeine dependent, The nominations are in! No, not for the Oscars or the Golden Globes, but the awards we’ve all been waiting for: The Independent Spirit Awards. Let the office pools begin! In all honesty, while I tired of televised award ceremonies long ago, the ISA’s—or is it the Indies? the [...]

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A Thanksgiving Feast (of Archives!)

Posted in books, cartoons, food, humor, visual culture on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear preemptive vacationers, I realize there’s been a lot of food in these dispatches lately, perhaps in subconscious anticipation of Thanksgiving this Thursday. I don’t know about you, but when I think about Thanksgiving (or Turkey Day, as I’ve heard it called), I think about sweet potatoes with marshmallows, fresh roasted turkey, grandmotherly love—and that’s [...]

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Card Catalogs and the Environment, Conserved

Posted in books, cartoons, environment, libraries, visual culture, tagged , on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear last-minutes-before-class loiterers, Like some of you, I’m just old enough to remember the days of ye olde card catalog—when finding a book required more than a quick Google search. No, the dedicated researcher pulled out drawer after wooden drawer—even stacked them in a dangerous Jenga-like tower—and then flipped endlessly to find the perfect book [...]

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Trick-or-Treaters and Headless Horsemen

Posted in books, cartoons, musicals, periodicals, photography, visual culture, tagged on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear idling experts, I’ve lived in Massachusetts for three Halloweens now, counting tomorrow, but I’ve yet  to trek to Salem for their ghoulish festivities. From what I hear, they’re a real hoot—if by hoot, you mean a gross misappropriation of the past. Why worry about Puritans persecuting each other when you can visit  a psychic [...]

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Fiddling Pigs and Finely-Dressed Foxes

Posted in books, children, visual culture, tagged , , , , on October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Dear power nappers, On Saturday, David and I headed to the vertical Long Island—that is, New Jersey—to meet my new nephew Sammy, a beautiful little boy who has the eyes of his father (my brother), the ears of his mother, and the sleep patterns of a lazy-scholar-to-be: he spent the majority of our visit napping, waking [...]

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Dime Novels, Killer Elephants, and Drug Rings

Posted in books, periodicals, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

To my fellow worshippers of Hypnos, Bruce Handy’s recent New York Times essay on why he disliked Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are as a kid—but not as an adult—has got me thinking a little about what boys read and why. Consider, for instance, Stanford’s wonderful collection of turn-of-the century dime novels and story papers. [...]

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Cartoons and Commerce, Together at Last!

Posted in books, cartoons, economics, humor, visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear siesta sympathizers, Those of you following the Lazy Scholar blog may be asking yourself, “Who is that handsome devil on the homepage?” No, dear readers, it’s not a portrait of yours truly, but rather the official Lazy Scholar mascot—known in his own time and place as Paul Nebeker Bogart. The mixed-media caricature comes from [...]

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