September 2006 - Posts

And so are you: http://www.glumbert.com/media/monkeys

This is just wonderful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PwpcUawjK0

http://www.altmuslim.com/perm.php?id=1783_0_25_0_C

Mmmmm good old milk. Yes you can get it online, and just look at the great reviews!

Amazon Milk Reviews

And if that wasn't great enough, this review is from the book What Does This Say?: Family Circus (Bil Keane)

Yeats once wrote, "None other knows what pleasures man/At table or in bed." Bil Keane, however, seems to have found in his latest 'Family Circus' opus a treasure-chest of pleasures for each and all of us.

There are some who chafe at the seeming repetitive themes within Keane's major works; I would respectfully submit that all great stories are about life and death, love and loss, fear and triumph. If not Keane, then so go Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz and Callimachus, too, for good measure. It is not originality that spawns thought and wonderment; it is the vessels of those themes (Billy, Grandma, Barfy, PJ) that inspire and enlighten.

Keane, as carrier of these vessels, reminds us of a truth so eloquently immortalized by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Some books leave us free and some books make us free." In 'What Does This Say', it is clear that the tome achieves the latter, with gusto and aplomb.