Birthday Drinks In The Rue Morgue

Many happy (yet dark and brooding) returns today to the detective story:
In 1841, on this day, the first detective story was published. In his story The Murders in the Rue Morgue, published in Graham’s Magazine, Edgar Allan Poe (books by this author) created mystery’s first fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin. The story introduced many of [...]

The Shivers

It’s Majestic, Is What It Is

From the BBC, some truly extraordinary nature footage, well worth a look.

British Sport Minute

From Rod Liddle of the London Times:
Do you suppose that West Ham’s Mark Noble would have played quite so well and collected so many plaudits had he been lined up alongside the likes of Lampard or Fabregas? I doubt it.
Exactly. How often have we said the exact same thing here at Big Ink?

Don’t Talk Back To Darth Vader

Indeed.

This reminds me of a great idea I had for a show, just called “Alderaan,” where every episode takes place in a different part of the planet, with new characters, a new story, drama, passion, great screenwriting, fantastic actors, and then, at the end of every single episode, everything always blows up. Yet another reason [...]

Depths

“Cloverfield” is going to be an important film. A lot of people are going to misread it; a lot of people are going to be disappointed because they misread the marketing campaign; a lot of people won’t want to deal with trauma. Fair enough (especially on the last; parts of the film were hard for [...]

Nip in 07, Nap in 08

Happy New Year, y’all. Enjoy a lazy first day of 08.

(My friend’s kits, Tino & Dutchie, are now famous on CuteOverload.com because of this photo; nice symmetry, guys.)

Sprint To The Finish

FYI, as the quarter draws to a close and I have to get busy cranking out several papers, Big Ink will be running silent/deep for a while. But it’s still a crazy mixed up world out there. Think about it while I’m gone.

School Supply

I hereby command you, loyal minions of the Kingdom of Big Ink (both of you), to visit the Donor’s Choose Challenge set up by my good friend Mike (coincidentally a high muckity-muck at Donor’s Choose). These are the people who connect those of us who may have a modest (or immodest) amount to give with [...]

This Is Not My Beautiful Government

Submitted for consideration (remember: links do not necessarily represent the views of this blog), two recent items from Salon looking back at how the GOP and the present administration brought the country to where we are now.
John Dean with an excerpt from his new book “Broken Government.”
Gary Kamiya on the effects of the 9/11 [...]