Original edition of God's Man, 1929 The music kind of started pouring out for this when I was looking at the “God’s Man” book- Jim JamesJim James is best known as the frontman for the very successful band My Morning Jacket. In 2008 while performing at the University of Iowa James fell off the stage and got banged up pretty bad. In the months following, while recuperating, James was given a copy of Lynd Ward's seminal wordless novel Gods' Man which as James says "really struck a chord."How much of an impression did the book have? Well, his latest album and first solo release, “Regions of...
model municipal public library by UGO
model municipal public library by UGO: 'via Blog this'
Urban Planning through Kids Books
Kauser Razvi, an urban planner and part of the team at Strategic Urban Solutions, would like to transform a few vacant lots in Cleveland into mini-wonderlands for kids.The project is called Literary Lots and thankfully it has already met its initial funding goal.Here's what Ravi has in mind:Literary Lots is a program that ‘brings books to life’ in vacant lots in Cleveland. Working with the Cleveland Public Libraries and LAND Studio, Literary Lots will transform 2 to 4 vacant lots adjacent to libraries into six-week summer program spots for children in inner-city Cleveland. Between June and August 2013, local artists...
Do Not Read These Books!
Ladies and Gentleman - here is Jimmy Fallon presenting his latest Do Not Read List.These are real books and this is really funny.h/t Salon
War in the Classroom: New York Post Style
In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was Read. --Alia Muhammad BakerThe one and only New York Post is touting an exclusive story today with the following headline: New York approves war-oriented reading textbooks for third-grade classrooms which, as you see above, the local CBS affiliate picked up. The uproar is over the introduction of a book dealing with war into classrooms. Specifically targeted is Jeanette Winter's 2005 book The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq that has been approved through the city's new "common core" curriculum to be read in grades 3 and above.In their endearing, though never-ending, attempt to...