The complete list of what I read in 1999. Click on any title to purchase it from Amazon.com.
Read on »Archives: December 1999
Photos from 1999
Photo Set: A handful of funny pictures from 1999.
Read on »Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Read on »Poems of Dorothy Parker
From the Book: Portable Dorothy Parker
Read on »Lisa’s Dentistry Haiku
from Lisa
Read on »Oxford World Classics
The March 1999 catalog of Oxford World Classics, published by Oxford University Press.
Read on »Random House Modern Library Catalog
“The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennet Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern
Read on »The Library of America
History and Mission Statement (from LOA web site, 3/99): “The Library of America was founded in 1979 to undertake a historic endeavor: to help preserve the nation’s cultural heritage by publishing America’s best and most significant writing in durable and authoritative editions.” “The idea for The Library of America was first discussed some thirty years
Read on »Everyman’s Library
“Everyman’s Library, founded in 1906 and relaunched in 1991 [by Alfred E. Knopf, a division of Random House], aims to offer the most complete library in the English language of the world’s classics. Each volume is printed in a classic typeface on acid-free, cream-wove paper with a sewn full cloth binding.” This is the March
Read on »Random House Modern Library’s Top 100 Nonfiction Books
in 1998, the Modern Library released its list of the best 100 novels of the 20th Century amid much controversy over both what they put in and what they left out. They’re back – with the Top 100 Nonfiction books of the 20th Century. So go ahead and argue what should have been left out
Read on »The X (mas) Files
Author Unknown Mulder: We’re too late. It’s already been here. Scully: Mulder, I hope you know what you are doing. Mulder: Look, Scully, just like the other homes: Douglas fir, truncated, mounted, transformed into some sort of shrine; halls decked with boughs of holly; stockings hung by the chimney, with care. Scully: You really think
Read on »New Y2K Software
Author Unknown This memo is to announce the development of a new database software system which will be Year 2000 compliant. This program is known as "Millennia Year Application Software System" (MYASS). Next Monday there will be a meeting in which I will show MYASS to everyone. We will hold demonstrations throughout the month so
Read on »Solving The Y0K Problem
Author Unknown While browsing through material in the recesses of the Roman Section of the British Museum, a researcher recently came across a tattered bit of parchment. After some effort he translated it and found it was a letter from a man called Plutonius with the title of "magister factorium," or keeper of the calendar,
Read on »How To Solve The Y2K Problem
Author Unknown The Corporate Office has defined a lower cost alternative for Desktop conversions that also addresses the Y2K (Year 2000) issue: The goal is to remove all computers from the desktop by Jan, 1999. Instead, everyone will be provided with an Etch-A-Sketch. There are many sound reasons for doing this: 1. No Y2K problems
Read on »Two Digits for a Date
Author Unknown (sung to the tune of "Gilligan’s Island", more or less) Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale Of the doom that is our fate. That started when programmers used Two digits for a date… two digits for a date. Main memory was much smaller then; Hard disks were smaller, too. "Four
Read on »It Ain’t Me
Bob Dylan, Another Side of Bob Dylan 1964
Read on »Bad Moon Rising
Written by: J. Fogerty, Performed by: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Read on »Mad World
Tears for Fears, Gary Jule
Read on »Sarah Michelle Gellar Dreams – Parts 2, 3, and 4
Okay, I’ve had three more dreams recently about Sarah Michelle Gellar. In the past, I’ve had reoccurring dreams and sex dreams, but never a reoccurring sex dream. This is very cool, and I hope it lasts. Actually, only one of these three new dreams — the first — was really a sex dream per se,
Read on »Fight The Power
01 – Fight the Power – The Isley Brothers – It’s Your Thing (boxed set) 02 – Go – Indigo Girls – Come On Now Social 03 – Reclaim – Copper Wimmin – American Tyranny 04 – Power to the Meek – Eurythmics – Peace 05 – Pop Singer’s Fear of the Pollen Count –
Read on »Dream Fragments
I keep a pad of paper near my bedside so that I can write down vivid dreams if I have them. Sometimes, though, if I haven’t quite shaken off the sandman, or if they aren’t particularly memorable, I won’t be able to fill in the details later – that’s what’s happened here. I can’t remember
Read on »Gay Indy Mailing List
On the bright side – I saw two movies this past weekend – Dogma and Run Lola Run. Both were good. On the dark side – It surprises me sometimes what other people find to be important. I say this because I’m on the GayIndy mailing list, and it’s kind of a joke. The mailing
Read on »The Sarah Michelle Gellar Dream
I had a dream where I was having sex with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Which is very weird, because she’s not really my type. I wouldn’t kick her out of bed, certainly, if she came up to me, and slid gracefully into my arms and squirmed around like she did in my dream. But she’s not
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