December 20, 2006
Book 'Em
It's the best damn Christmas book list ever over at Patem Peperium. Go on over and browse among the literary recommendations of fourteen of Algore's World Wide Web's finest and most sophisticated denizens (as well as Self):
Following the canny example of Bertie Wooster’s Aunt Dahlia—who, if you remember, signed up a high-profile female pen-pusher to contribute to her magazine Milady’s Boudoir in order to make the old sheet more attractive to a prospective buyer—the Peperiums have signed up DC policy wonks, American Spectator contributors, NRO contributors, Weekly Standard contributors, Crisis contributors, high-powered New York editors, high-powered New York lawyers, Justice Department lawyers, high-powered Academic eggheads, well-dressed Mid Western ex-Harrier pilots, regular readers, complete nobodys posing as somebodys (us), and a Catholic priest…all in order to give folks the impression that Patum Peperium is what Bertie might call, “the goods”.
The goods? It's the eel's eyebrows!
Well done, Mr. & Mrs. P!
Posted by Robert at December 20, 2006 01:55 PM | TrackBackThere is a book I am required to read my sons each year before Christmas Eve, Berk Breathed's "Red Ranger Came Calling". I strongly recommend it to those with youngsters.
Posted by: Mike at December 20, 2006 03:59 PMThat is an absolutely outstanding list. I'll second your endorsement of Hercules, My Shipmate, and Fiendish Lout might want to try Ferguson's Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals. But mostly I was glad to pick up half a dozen or so suggestions that I want to read. Screw the gift-giving: this is my Christmas.
Posted by: utron at December 20, 2006 06:52 PM
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