[3] August 19, 2011
Screwballs or doosras? Pitchers or bowlers? Hot dogs and beer or cucumber sandwiches and tea? The strangely parallel worlds of baseball and cricket needn’t be mutually exclusive.
[3] Screwballs or doosras? Pitchers or bowlers? Hot dogs and beer or cucumber sandwiches and tea? The strangely parallel worlds of baseball and cricket needn’t be mutually exclusive.
[5] The Kansas City Public Library is bringing back The Big Read this year, and you needn’t plunk down cash to buy in. You can download e-book versions of this year’s selection, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain from the Library’s website to keep and use on your e-reader free of charge.
[7] Three years ago, Blendtec [8] CEO Tom Dickinson came up with a simple but highly effective means of advertising his product online to millions of people without spending millions of dollars. The secret formula: Household Object + High-end Blender = Supreme Entertainment for the Folks Online.
[10] For a while there, it looked as if Birnam Wood would not come to Southmoreland Park, toil and trouble would not bubble in view of the Nelson-Atkins’ shuttlecocks, and cries of “Out, damned spot!” would not sound across midtown Kansas City.
[12] Andrei Codrescu has always been interested in the ways stories are told. As a poet, essayist, novelist, and founder of the avant-garde journal Exquisite Corpse [13] – not to mention his hilarious NPR commentaries [14] – Codrescu has made a name for himself as a master at both creating and exploding narrative forms.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC%20Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/batmen-right-bat-and-10-other-smashing-stick-and-ball-reads
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/14185#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/download-e-book-copy-tom-sawyer-big-read
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/download-e-book-copy-tom-sawyer-big-read#comments
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/socially-conscious-13-books-marketing-digital-age
[8] http://www.blendtec.com/
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13713#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/macbeth-mondays-way-come
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13559#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/twice-told-tales-andrei-codrescus-arabian-nights-and-6-other-famous-retellings
[13] http://corpse.org/
[14] http://www.npr.org/people/2100359/andrei-codrescu
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13504#comment-form
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=8
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=5
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=6
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=7
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=10
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=11
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=12
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=13
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10499?page=15