AdamSmith

Those are all excellent points. I agree absolutely that Ellison and Baldwin are grievous omissions. Instead of (or in addition to) Toni Morrison, I would add Zora Neale Hurston.

Should it ever come to that, you doubtless know that Camden, Maine is much nicer.

Ah! Just found it on the intrawebs. (Of cuss you meant Cambridge, MA.) It looks great but I think it did not start up until after I moved away, which I did in May 2010. As it happens I will be back in Boston next week at a business conference, but of course trapped in rubber-chicken hotel mass feedings.

That puts you ahead of me! The article-length review/appreciations of each book, behind the hyperlinks in that article, remind me of the ones I want to read, or re-read. Or finish reading! Several of the major ones I started in college, and read just enough of not to look entirely stupid in seminar.

Alas, rings no bells, even after consulting the Googles. What it be?

His little left-hand gesture!

"Scared the first time I had sex? Of course I was scared! I was all alone." Rodney Dangerfield

You must have hit the Dominate button by mistake.

Well, I love Obama. But on the other hand, there is no denying his Administration's record number (by far!) of whistle-blower prosecutions, stonewalling of FOI requests, defense of rampant NSA practices even post-Snowden, arguably egregiously extra-constitutional drone-strike policies, on and on.

P.S. In that article, I just noticed that each book title is a hyperlink that leads to a full-length article on the respective book.

Mmm! (Seriously.) Garum sauce: ancient Rome's 'ketchup' becomes a modern-day secret ingredient http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/26/garum-sauce-colatura-di-alici-italy-fish

The stripper pole in the Bachelor Pad at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

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For today's students, evidently English is a second language. Paradise Lost in plain English http://www.paradiselost.org/lmg/Book-1.html

More evidence of Oz's wisdom in keeping his servers in Bangalore.

Goody! Maybe. A cunning plan: if Blackadder returns, where and when should it be set? http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/aug/24/blackadder-returns-cunning-plan-where-when-set

So I Googled "Shatnering a fiver" and got this: Shatnall The act of sharting you pants so bad the crap covers all parts of the underwear. I had to buy five more packs of underwear because i have been having some shatnall lately. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shatnall

Online text (pirated alas but anyway) of SF genius Stanislaw Lem''s novella GOLEM XIV about a military supercomputer that achieves consciousness and proceeds to lecture mankind about evolution and consciousness. One of my favorite pieces of SF of all time. http://totse.mattfast1.com/en/ego/science_fiction/lect1.html

That's Ms. A. afarensis to you.

I Did Not Know This: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna

His costume here notwithstanding, Justin has always been someone who thinks out of the box.

Maybe this is Theatre, Art & Literature but I'm putting it up here with hoi polloi instead...