My review of David Deans’s The Defenestration of Bob T. Hash, III appears in this morning’s Sun-Times.
It also appears that my byline has been mysteriously reduced from “Edward” to “Ed.” I presume that my name has become too long for ever-shrinking books sections.
BBC: “At least 29 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded after a series of explosions struck the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, officials have said.”
This comes a day after seven blasts in Bangalore. Are these homemade bombs from SIMI? Or is SIMI being implicated by another terrorist group?
Rachel Donadio: “James Joyce was forever hard up for cash. Too bad he never thought of touring Europe to promote Plumtree’s potted meat or lemon-scented soap, notable items in ‘Ulysses.'”
If someone kicked Rachel Donadio in the teeth just on these two sentences alone, it wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing. Thankfully, Donadio is leaving the New York Times Book Review. Hopefully, for good.
A few listeners have informed me that they are having difficulties accessing The Bat Segundo Show site using Internet Explorer and Safari. Unfortunately, the podPress plugin used to stream the programs has proven to be incompatible with WordPress 2.6. (And had I known this, I never would have upgraded.) I would downgrade to WP 2.5 to solve this, but then that would mean using an old backup of the database and losing entries. And the gentleman behind this plugin has yet to release a new version, although he has promised one in the next few days.
So we essentially have to wait this out until this programmer, who is working a very time-consuming day job, can find time to fix this.
However, after a bit of code tweaking, I’ve made everything operational under Firefox. So I would recommend using Firefox for the time being.