Links With Your Coffee - Monday
- Questions for Christopher Buckley - The Right Stuff - Interview - NYTimes.com
Christopher Buckley refers to himself as a hack novelist, but I rather enjoyed his novel Thank you for Smoking, the movie while not as good, was fun. This is just another interview about his fall from grace for endorsing Barack Obama but provides some additional insight into the man I found interesting.
- YouTube - Wassup 2008(tip to Jared, Eric and Konstantin)
- The Final Silent Debate: Barack Obama v. John McCain by Harry Shearer(tip to Gary)
- YouTube - WEEKEND at McCAINY'S
- Al Qaeda Endorses McCain
- Bookninja » Blog Archive » Contest finalists [BUMPED] Some great faux bookcovers.
- Missing the Mark - WSJ.com
- A Fifth Grader From Florida Asks Joe Biden What The Vice President Does | Prose Before Hos(tip to Alec)
Comments
The Fifth Grader From Florida Asks Joe Biden What The Vice President Does video was simply awesome.
That kid is going to make a great reporter some day.
Joe Biden is now my homeboy...lol
Re: missing the mark.
I have only read The Road by McCarthy, which was the first book I saw without Quotation marks or apostrophes for that matter. I wrote it off as a device to blur the line between the internal and external on purpose, making you evaluate the father's character more carefully, and the situation he was in. I can see how the same style of writing would work for No Country (even though i haven't read the book). I really appreciate McCarthy dropping the marks. It works for his style, as the WSJ article points out.
Another writer's screed about the downfall of america being the language evolving beyond the way they use it. I appreciate the concern, but complaining about a new style of poetry/art/literature/music, you can't help but come across as sounding like the old coot yelling at the kids on his lawn.
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