Some random links that caught my fancy today. Islamic clerics in the United Arab Emirites have issued a fatwa against humans traveling to Mars. The reason? They consider it a suicide mission, and the Qu’ran prohibits suicide, therefore anyone who travels to Mars is committing suicide. A cellist wants HBO to rerecord the Game ofContinue reading “Link Roundup”
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Baseball Field, Oh Baseball Field!
Baseball field, oh baseball field! Springtime will be here soon! Baseball field, oh baseball field! Warm days in May and June! The outfield grass, the pitcher’s mound, Crack of the bat, and the force out! Baseball field, oh baseball field! Springtime will be here soon! Lyrics by me, sung to the tune of “O Tannenbaum”
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!, Michael Tomasky’s New Beatles Book
As I write this, we’re on the cusp of the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles’ arrival in New York City and their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. Published by The Daily Beast and released this week, Michael Tomasky’s Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! looks back at those events in February 1964, how and why theyContinue reading “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!, Michael Tomasky’s New Beatles Book”