Comments on: Train of Thought: A Top Ten List

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:28:04 +0000

While I agree with the premise of the book, Hitchens is a vile creature and that would keep me from sitting next to someone reading his spew.

By: just someone

just someone — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:49:02 +0000

All I know is that back when I was reading a biography of Friedrich Nietzsche (with a cover that screamed NIETZSCHE in block type visible 50 feet away), I was approached on subways and at bus stops by more weirdos and wackos than I’ve encountered at any other time in my life.

By: W. Kiernan

W. Kiernan — Sat, 19 May 2007 13:59:45 +0000

There’s a local entertainment paper you can pick up for free in Tampa area restaurants and bars. Every week they publish a swell hard crossword puzzle in it, and I sometimes while away my lunch hour by working it out. The puzzle takes up half a page, divided by a vertical line. So I extract that page and fold it over so the only thing showing on my side is the puzzle.

However, they always publish this puzzle on one of the last pages in the paper, amidst their luridly illustrated advertisements for sensual massage shops, swinger’s clubs, gay chat lines and sex toy stores.

So as I’m walking out of the restaurant, carrying my folded page and staring intently at the crossword-puzzle side whilst puzzling out what a middle eastern monetary unit is or who composed “Rule, Brittania,” other folks in the restaurant see me strolling past holding up high a brightly colored 5-1/2″ x 17″ banner displaying “FULL BODY MASSAGE (404) 555-1212,” a shirtless dude with a Captain’s hat talking into a telephone, and a woman staring all cold and mean into the camera, wearing a black negligee and thigh-high patent-leather boots as she holds up a dildo and a cat-o-nine-tails.

By: Evans

Evans — Fri, 18 May 2007 13:06:47 +0000

You might like Daniel C. Dennett’s “Breaking the Spell” if you liked Hitchen’s book. I haven’t read Hitchen’s one though. Sounds like they’re on the same subject. Cheers!

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By: Jef Menguin

Jef Menguin — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:10:25 +0000

Great blog. Congratulations!

By: LittlePig

LittlePig — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:02:48 +0000

I’ll wait for the audio version of Hitchens, read by the author.

“No man ish an (*hic*) ishland…Jeeves, you wahnt to freesin up this drihnky a bit…Ah..OK..No man ish an (*hic*) ishland…”

By: ADS

ADS — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:39:19 +0000

I admit a certain morbid fascination for books about train wrecks. I used to avoid reading them while actually on the train, but no longer….

By: Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:12:46 +0000

Planes not trains: I find it creepy to fly next to someone reading a “Left Behind” novel– someone who gets on an airplane in the apparent belief that the pilot and copilot could disappear to go live with the baby Jebus at any moment.

By: erik curtis' "friend" Steve

erik curtis' "friend" Steve — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:01:57 +0000

erikcurtis is obviously gay