The Severed Cortex

Bobby Murcer was never my favorite Yankee player. For one, he played during all those really crappy Yankee years in the early seventies, although he did play with my favorite Yankee Thurman Munson. Murcer skipped out on the '77 and '78 championship tea… more »

It's tough to read when you have vertigo and can't focus your eyes well. I didn't think I'd miss it all that much but I did. I started reading another tome before I noticed that Nancy had this one and was going to return it to the library. Since I wor… more »

This is going to be a massive post. I was turned on to this book by one of my coworkers (Jason) who knows as much, if not more, about bands that you've never heard of than I do. Seems impossible doesn't it? I was a little bit skeptical about startin… more »

I really have a love/hate thing with Chuck Klosterman. I've picked up his books in the bookstore, read a couple of pages, and loved it. I then flip to another section, read a couple of pages, and love it. Flip somewhere else, read a couple of pages, a… more »

The Elements of Graphic Design by Alex W. White This is a real graphic design primer. It's the sort of thing you would expect to be required to buy at the college bookstore for your Graphic Design 101 class freshmen year. Which means it's about the ri… more »

Ignatius will do you right. That's what my old McSalty's manager Jack said as he handed me a dog eared copy of A Confederacy of Dunces. I didn't read a whole hell of a lot back then, and he knew it because he made me promise that I'd read it. It sat… more »

I have actually read a book in the last couple of months. I read this one almost two months ago. I do have to admit I've read little since then, excepting, of course, baseball news while surfing the internet and The Economist whilst dropping the kids o… more »

This isn't what I thought it was going to be. For some reason I had the idea that it was going to be a fictionalized version of a kids life from the viewpoint of the kid being a secret super hero. And of course, being not much more than a big kid I tho… more »

I really, really enjoyed this book. I'd even say it changed the way I think about a lot of things. Perhaps it's just luck that I like it, as the author might suggest, but it probably has more to do with two things: math and philosophy. I won't say I'm… more »

Clay Travis is a Tennessee fan. Automatically I hate him. It's not his fault he was brainwashed as a child living in Nashville. His grandfather played for Tennessee the first year that the Southeastern Conference was born. He never stood a chance. A… more »