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The Colonel’s Portentous Cat Unsays

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Special Collections Librarian Max Yela writes:
[The Colonel's Portentous Cat Unsays] is perhaps the most recent and remarkable of invisible books. It follows a long tradition of dream books and stories, from biblical citations of dream-state narratives, to the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and Shakespeare’s Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Eyes of a [...]

2007 Fave Song Mix

Every year, I make a mega-mix of favorite songs released throughout that year. The list is more or less in order, for the first 50-ish songs, but the order doesn’t matter as much as the mix. 2007 was a really good year. Here ’tis:
001—Spoon - The Underdog
002—Tegan & Sara - The Con
003—John Doe w/Kathleen Edwards [...]

Favorite Albums of 2007

My favorite 2007 albums:
1. The National - Boxer
2. Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
3. Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
4. Tegan & Sara - The Con
5. The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth
6. [...]