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Some recent clutter in my inbox, worth sharing with the BillyBlog audience.... Here's an overseas perspective on " Why rednecks may...

The latest New Yorker fiction podcast features Jonathan Lethem reading James Thurber’s short story “ The Wood Duck ”. Click story name t...

Just skimmed the recent New Yorker anniversary issue. Of note was a piece of personal history by David Owen about nicknames (a little bit...

A visitor recently chimed in over on Tattoosday about a similar blog focusing on tattoos, but with a more specialized slant. It is called C...

Here's a new feature....a random assortment of things that piqued my interest over the past week: Billboard magazine discusses and exhib...

Let's look back.... I updated this post with a link to a local television news story about the funeral of William Alfred Bujold. My cou...

Just recently read three pieces in The New Yorker : "How I Spent the War; A Recruit in the Waffen S. S." a fascinating memoir ...

There's been a lot of buzz since the beginning of the year about the problem beekeepers are having with a mysterious "colony collap...

I gave up on Per Petterson's In the Wake . Someone reserved a copy at the library, so I had to return mine unfinished. I made it to pag...

The New York Times had a glut of interesting fodder to read on Sunday. Since I had an extremely busy weekend (more on that later), I am thr...

A beer after my own heart! Article here .

Check these out: An interesting look into the final days of Tony Blair as Prime Minister, through the eyes of novelist Martin Amis. These gu...

This seems apropos as the fortieth anniversary of my birth is rapidly approaching. This site here lets you easily figure out what song was ...

The author of Milk, Eggs, Vodka saw my post and linked it in his blog here . Check it out over there at the blog home page and see the late...

First, a shout-out to the readers: Benjie dropped me a link to the 101 Greatest George Carlin quotes . Courtesy of Blogzarro . Also, the An...

One of my favorite music blogs to check regularly is called Licorice Pizza . At the end of March, he started doing a recurring post called ...

Well my injury (more on that later) hasn't impaired my ability to type. So, taking advantage of BillyBlog's most prolific month ever...

I have taken part, for a while now, in the blog of the Bay Ridge Jewish Center . It's a humble little blog, whose counter reflects fewer...

I came across another blog, Nerd Litter , that posted (via a guest poster) about last month's Lucinda Williams concert at Radio City Mus...

I'm off from work for the next six days, so let's see how BillyBlog fares in the down time: A favorite poem of mine is Charles Simic...