A Graphic But Interesting Look At Tommy John Surgery

When you’re a baseball fan, you hear the words Tommy John surgery thrown around a lot. In some ways, you know how major it is. You know about the sometimes years long recovery time and how the success or failure of it quite literally means the world to a pitcher. You’ve seen how some guys …

Author Of To Kill A Mockingbird Dies

I know this happened last week, but I still wanted to mention it. Hey, at least it was only last week, not last month, or months ago. So Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird”, has died. I think everyone should read that book. I can’t remember all the smaller points of the plot, …

Happy Civilised Saturday

So you’ve survived Black Friday, but your shopping is still not done. What to do? You could always buy things online like you should have done yesterday because it’s 2015 for Christ’s sake, or you could do whatever it is you do to work up your nerves and then head back out to the stores …

I Accidentally Read Smut

And now, Gill is here to tell the story of a recent trip to the library. This is why we have old sayings, because you sure can’t judge books by their covers. The Deceptive Title When choosing books at my local branch of the Hamilton Public Library I happened to choose one called Beautiful You. …

If You Would Like To Die At 78, Turn To Page 12

When I heard that R.A. Montgomery had died, my first reaction was something like “Should I know who that is?” The name didn’t really ring a bell, but I’m like that with more famous people than you’d think, so I didn’t give it much thought because I had a headache and had to get ready …

Sony And Amazon Don’t Think You Should Be Reading This Post, Blind Person

Why do companies that make products and provide services I enjoy have to be such complete and total discriminatory arseholes? Check out these utterly absurd reasons why Sony and Amazon don’t think they should have to comply with the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, which mandates that electronic devices be made …

Grinding Out 1-6-2: Help Fund A Book About Following The Blue Jays Around Next Season

Following a baseball team everywhere it goes for an entire season and writing a book about the experience seems like such an obvious idea once you hear it, so why has nobody come up with it or done it yet? I don’t know, but Neal Smith would like to, and he’d like your help. GRINDING …

Fifty Shades Of Sherlock

I’m hardly what you’d call one of those stuffy literature people, but this sounds kinda horrifying. Thanks to all this Fifty Shades of Grey junk, a company called Total-E-Bound Publishing has enlisted some of its romance writers to add sex scenes to the classics. Some original fans of Jane Eyre might be unhappy to discover …

Print Encyclopedias Just Got One Step Closer To Death. What Are We Supposed To Do With All The New Shelf Space?

Newsflash, people in my age range. We’re getting old. Encyclopaedia Britannica Gives Up On Print Edition That’s right, the era of the giant bookshelves full of encyclopedias in the living room or the library is coming to an end. We all knew this day would come because it’s 2012 and you can find all of …