For reasons I no longer recall, I stopped getting the Sunday New York Times years ago. Reading it these days is a rich and slightly over-the-top experience, sort of like taking a steamy bubble bath. My wife and I are spending the New Year’s holiday with friends up in Camden, Maine – a couple we’ve […] More >>
Archives for December 2012
All I Want for Xmas is a Droid With Apps
Here, for the third year, is my annual Christmas blog. I’d like to say this week’s entry is “back by popular demand,” but there has been no demand for it. Bookman’s Log, I’m happy to say, has never been burdened with demands. The truth is, I’m taking the day off in honor of the season. […] More >>
Tale of Two Book Stores
Santa checks her device. She wants to find out who’s been naughty, and who’s been nice Just finished reading an inspiring article in Atlantic Magazineabout the opening of a new book store. Two years ago, after Nashville lost its last downtown indie, and both big box book outlets closed, bestselling author and local resident Ann […] More >>
Guiding Lights
I’ve ranted before about lighthouses being one of those subject areas from which collectors have mysteriously vanished. People scrabbling and clawing in the most fearsome way for lighthouse literature and then one day, more or less out of the blue, they don’t want any at all. Not even the rarest material. I suspect that in […] More >>
Captain Winsor and “The Passengers”
It’s been a month since my website was hacked and poisoned with malware. Since then, the tech guys have been working valiantly to du-bug the site, fix broken code, and move tenpound.com to a new host. Somehow, all this activity disabled my email and, for an exciting couple of days, I was dead in the […] More >>