blog.bookmach.com » History http://blog.bookmach.com life is a series of tubes Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:43:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Parrots, the Universe and Everything http://blog.bookmach.com/2010/04/parrots-the-universe-and-everything/ http://blog.bookmach.com/2010/04/parrots-the-universe-and-everything/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:55:16 +0000 Brian Fox Dougherty http://blog.bookmach.com/?p=1061

A brilliant lecture from Douglas Adams.

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]]> http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/11/twillionth/feed/ 0 Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/11/dock-ellis-the-lsd-no-no/ http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/11/dock-ellis-the-lsd-no-no/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:39:17 +0000 Brian Fox Dougherty http://blog.bookmach.com/?p=1010

A celebration of the greatest drug-fueled achievement in sports history.

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]]> http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/03/kamikaze/feed/ 0 The Road of Excess http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/01/the-road-of-excess/ http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/01/the-road-of-excess/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:45:28 +0000 Brian Fox Dougherty http://blog.bookmach.com/?p=893 …leads to the palace of homelessness. We’ve all had terrible house guests, but apparently Arthur Rimbaud was the worst:

He took to nude sunbathing just outside the house. He turned his room into a squalid den. He mutilated an heirloom crucifix. He was proud of the lice infesting his long mane and even pretended he was encouraging the vermin to jump on to passers-by.

Link

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]]> http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/01/seven-billion/feed/ 0 Ideological Attack Ads http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/01/ideological-attack-ads/ http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/01/ideological-attack-ads/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:27:37 +0000 Brian Fox Dougherty http://blog.bookmach.com/?p=889

]]> http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/01/ideological-attack-ads/feed/ 0 Pandora’s Box http://blog.bookmach.com/2008/10/pandoras-box/ http://blog.bookmach.com/2008/10/pandoras-box/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:21:17 +0000 Brian Fox Dougherty http://blog.bookmach.com/?p=853 Adam Smith’s 1992 miniseries on how the Soviets attempted to engineer the perfect society, instead building a centrally controlled Hell. (more at IMDB)

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Also recommended is Adam’s The Power of Nightmares, one of my all-time favorite documentaries.

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]]> http://blog.bookmach.com/2008/09/fireworks-war/feed/ 0 Moops In Spain http://blog.bookmach.com/2008/08/moops-in-spain/ http://blog.bookmach.com/2008/08/moops-in-spain/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:48:21 +0000 Brian Fox Dougherty http://blog.bookmach.com/?p=803 A rather awesome documentary covering the rich history of the Moors’ occupation in Europe.

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