Bill Tosheff's life story reads like an improbable movie script: four sport star in high school, B-17 bomber pilot in World War II, baseball and basketball teammate of future baseball Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn while both did military service in Alaska, captain of Indiana University's 19-3 basketb...

Bill Tosheff's life story reads like an improbable movie script: four sport star in high school, B-17 bomber pilot in World War II, baseball and basketball teammate of future baseball Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn while both did military service in Alaska, captain of Indiana University's 19-3 basketb...

(Because the number of people who will understand the references to modernism and baseball number in the high single digits.) The prototypical leadoff hitter should radiate self-importance.  He has one job and one job only: to get on base.  He has one style and one style only: ostentatious scrappi...

Saturday night was a perfect date.  The boy and I ate gyros and then went to the bookstore after.  And I had a gift certificate left over from Christmas.  So I got to do some shopping!  I purchased five books - Dance Dance Dance and Kafka on the Shore - both by Haruki Muraka...

I first read Ernest Hemingway's story "Hills Like White Elephants" in high school. It was assigned, it was short, and it was simple. I didn't get anything out of it. When the teacher later told us it was about abortion, our collective reaction was, "so what?" That had to do with a general disinteres...

Mixed bag Technology Google starts axing services, but Google Reader is safe for now. There might be something to all that attention data value, but it isn’t going to benefit you anyway. I’d be looking for a substitute reader (preferably desktop) just in case. New Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz ...

Ernest Hemingway was a great writer, maybe the greatest writer of the last century—well who the hell did you think it was?—and he was an enormous bitch. And he was at his bitchiest best after he blew his brains out. First there was his posthumously published A Moveable Feast, in which he made fa...

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” ~James Bryce  This post is written by Robert of Flimjo.COM A helpful source for practical personal development is literature. Nowhere else will you find better wisdom and insight to develop your sense of self an...

Everybody knows that Republican Presidential candidate John McCain fought in the Vietnam War and was held in a POW camp until he gained a proper appreciation for the works of Ernest Hemingway. However, shocking new revelations suggest that McCain may have been an arrogant prick to the guy who rescue...

I take no credit and accept no blame for what follows. It is just funny and worth reading all the way to the end. I'm just bummed the pictures of all these people didn't show up when I copied it because it really added to the explanation. Enjoy! (The last three are my favorites because they're so tr...