A Boat Against the Current

A cultural "omniblog" covering matters literary as well as theatrical, musical, historical, cinematic(al), etc.

Monday, June 27, 2016

Joke of the Day (Stewart Francis, on a Frisbee’s Size)

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“Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me.”— Canadian stand-up comic Stew...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Quote of the Day (Mark Edmundson, on Heroes of ‘Serious Thought’)

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“Even early on, as they enter the first phase of their lives as thinkers, they’ll have one of the greatest satisfactions a human being ...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Photo of the Day: Last ‘Idol,’ at Fox Summer Concert Series

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This morning, I stopped across the street from my job at Rockefeller Center to see the latest performer at Fox News’ “All American Sum...
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Quote of the Day (Comic Maria Bamford, on Cooking)

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“My friends tell me that cooking is easy, but it's not easier than not cooking.” — Stand-up comic Maria Bamford, quoted in Robert B...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Quote of the Day (Garrison Keillor, on Luck)

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“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enoug...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Quote of the Day (Winston Churchill, on the Nazi Invasion of Russia)

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“ I see the 10,000 villages of Russia, where the means of existence was wrung so hardly from the soil, but where there are still primor...
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I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand
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