Flotsam and Jetsam
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Flotsam and Jetsam Lit & Lectures Books Today in corrections: "actual feelings"
Posted by Sam Worley on 02.28.12 at 12:49 PM
- Jesse Wagstaff
I have been roundly (and deservedly) chastised in e-mails and elsewhere by Slate readers for my use of “good riddance” in connection with this kind woman’s death. I admit, I was not really thinking of her as a person with actual feelings and a family, just an abstraction who happened to write these books. Apologies. Next time I will be more humane. —Hanna
I wasn't acquainted with the Berenstain Bears but, having read Rosin’s anti-obit, I’m intrigued—especially since she mentions that noted asshole Charles Krauthammer finds them “post-feminist,” and Papa Bear “the Alan Alda of grizzlies.” (He goes on: "a wimp so passive and fumbling he makes Dagwood Bumstead look like Batman.") Rosin thinks they’re the opposite: humorless and retrograde.
Related: yesterday in corrections.
Science Flotsam and Jetsam Adventures in linguistics
Posted by Sam Worley on 02.28.12 at 11:06 AM
- TEDxNJLibraries
Monday, February 27, 2012
Flotsam and Jetsam Media News Bites The right move
Posted by Steve Bogira on 02.27.12 at 10:56 AM
- Joshua Eckert
The Chess column last Sunday, about Justin Sarkar, a New York international master, gave an incorrect move in a recent game between Adam Hunt and Mr. Sarkar. Black’s eighth move was h6, not h4.
What a relief this was! The move to h4 had befuddled me all week. If you caught the previous Sunday's story by chess columnist Dylan Loeb McClain—and I know you did—I don't have to tell you that Hunt was employing the Panov-Botvinnik Attack against Sarkar's Caro-Kann Defense. As McClain noted, this "can lead to complicated positions."
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Paranormal Science Flotsam and Jetsam Sports "Friends of space, how are you all?"
Posted by Kate Schmidt on 02.14.12 at 04:47 PM
Friends of space, how are you all? Have you eaten yet? Come visit us if you have time
Monday, February 13, 2012
Flotsam and Jetsam Looking for Glove
Posted by Julia Thiel on 02.13.12 at 01:57 PM
Broken Flotsam and Jetsam Regrets Week Ear wax? Really?
Posted by Kate Schmidt on 02.13.12 at 08:00 AM
When I was an undergrad at the University of Iowa in the 80s, the Iowa Writers' Workshop was kind of a big deal. So I was flattered to be—set up with? asked out by? can't remember—a guy in the graduate fiction workshop. We'd arranged to see Bernard Tavernier's 'Round Midnight at the Bijou, the campus movie theater, and so found ourselves walking down the long hill to the student union one summer evening. Making small talk, I asked him what he'd been up to, and he told me he'd been to the doctor that day to get his ears cleaned—he had a problem with excessive wax buildup.
Friday, February 10, 2012
The Sexist Broken Flotsam and Jetsam OK Stupid
Posted by Kate Schmidt on 02.10.12 at 01:30 PM
In the mid-90s, when I'd moved to a new city after grad school, I placed a personals ad the old-fashioned way: in an alternative paper. After a couple of dud dates, I ended up meeting someone I went on to have a long-term relationship with. He eventually ended up reconciling with his ex-wife, but all this time later we're still friends.
Given this experience, I was open to trying online dating, so a younger colleague of mine got me started on OK Cupid. I can't say it's gone so well, though I have met a couple of guys who to all appearances are genuinely nice.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Flotsam and Jetsam Lit & Lectures Visual Art Books Saturday is Fluxus Day!
Posted by Sam Worley on 02.08.12 at 02:13 PM
- Patrick Hoesly
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Flotsam and Jetsam Media Lit & Lectures Books Walk a lonely superhighway
Posted by Sam Worley on 02.07.12 at 12:30 PM
- Archibald Ballantine
OK, now think about GeoCities circa 1995.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Flotsam and Jetsam WikiEditing
Posted by Steve Bogira on 01.31.12 at 10:04 AM
- Gideon Burton
—These edits in a nutshell: This was nominated as a good article but did not meet the good article criteria. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated.
—This section may be too long or excessively detailed. Please make it as concise as possible but no more concise.
—This phrase is unclear. Please disambiguate.
