Because I've gotten so enthusiastic about making entries for every single book I see that I find remotely interesting, and I realize this may make it difficult to browse my journal looking for things that are not books, and I desperately want everyone to browse and comment on my journal as much as possible, I have added a new tag: "not a book."

To see what I've written or linked to that is not a book, click on "not a book" HERE or in any of my tags.

It will probably take me a long time to tag every applicable post, though, so you'll only get a partial set of non-book entries for a while.

Tags: not a book

Stone sampler / by Studio Marmo ; text by Marco Campagna.



(All kinds of marble, granite, onyx, etc. 704 little pictures. I would so drool over this book if I were having an expensive kitchen/bathroom/mansion, built.)

Tags: architecture, books

Making short films : the complete guide from script to screen / Clifford Thurlow.

Table of contents at amazon.com

Tags: books, film

Queer attachments : the cultural politics of shame / Sally R. Munt.

CONTENTS: The cultural politics of shame : an introduction -- Queer Irish sodomites : the shameful histories of Edmund Burke, William Smith, Theodosius Reed, the Earl of Castlehaven and diverse servants - among others -- Shove the queer : Irish/American shame in New York's annual St. Patrick Day parades -- Expulsion : the queer turn of shame -- Queering the pitch : contagious acts of shame in organisations -- Shameless in queer street -- A queer undertaking : uncanny attachments in the HBO television drama series Six feet under -- After the fall : queer heterotopias in Philip Pullman's His dark materials trilogy -- A queer feeling when I look at you : Tracey Emin's aesthetics of the self.

Tags: books, lgbt issues, literature, pop culture, sociology, tv

Kluge : the haphazard construction of the human mind / Gary Marcus.

CONTENTS: Remnants of history -- Memory -- Belief -- Choice -- Language -- Pleasure -- Things fall apart -- True wisdom.

"Most of us probably believe that the human brain is a highly efficient, nearly perfect supercomputer. NYU psychology professor Gary Marcus shatters this popular notion with his provocative and eminently readable book Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind. In it he argues that the mind isn’t a well-run mission-control center but a complex mishmash of synapses that’s basically held together by the cerebral equivalent of duct tape and spit. The book’s title is engineering slang for a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem (think MacGyver); that’s what Marcus argues the human mind is.

"In witty, easy-to-digest prose, Marcus lays out his theory that our mind often fails us (e.g., eyewitness testimony is usually erroneous; we want to diet but instead satiate our immediate desires) and is subject to irrational emotions, moods, and desires. (source)"

Tags: books, psychology

"A Florida teacher's magic trick seems to have made his job vanish."

"Jim Piculas worked as a substitute teacher at a middle school about 30 minutes from Tampa, Florida.

"One day he made a toothpick "disappear" then "reappear" in front of his students, but the next day he got a call from his supervisor saying he didn't need to return to campus.

"I said, 'Well pat, what's this all about?' And he said, 'I don't really know how to put this Jim except to say that you've been accused of wizardry.'" (source)

Tags: not a book

Making camp : rhetorics of transgression in U.S. popular culture / Helene A. Shugart and Catherine Egley Waggoner.

CONTENTS: Introduction: trail map -- Camp grounds: histories and characters of camp -- Breaking camp: co-optation and critical logics -- Xena: camped crusader -- Karen Walker: drag hag -- Macy Gray: Venus in drag -- Gwen Stafani: Camp Vamp -- Conclusion: Camp sites.

Tags: books, lgbt issues, pop culture

Link: The Which Shakespeare Play Are You? Test written by macbee on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test View My Profile(macbee)

Tags: literature, memes, not a book