James Lileks, brilliant writer of some of my favorite books (i.e. The Gallery of Regrettable Food, Gastroanomolies: Questionable Culinary Inventions from the Golden Age of American Cookery, Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice, and Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible 70's) and host of one of my favorite blogs (The Bleat, linked to in the Daily Read section at the right), has posted a set of vignettes from a cruise he just took with his family. As usual, they are insightful and hilarious.
There ought to be a category for the kind of popular anthropology at which Lileks excels. He's a national treasure. His website is one of the best things on the interwebs, containing:
| Matchbook Museum. Lovely examples of commercial art in its smallest, most portable form. | |
| Comic Covers. Unusual or risable examples of old comic book cover art. Part of Comic Sins. | |
| 100 Mysteries. Chewing through a big box of public-domain Hollywood mystery movies, one at a time. | |
| StarTribune. Column on Friday and Sunday. | |
| Black & White World An ongoing look at movies that decided color was just so obvious. | |
| The 30s. Devoted to the detritus of a misunderstood decade. | |
| Comic Ads. Delightful examples of comic book ads. Part of Comic Sins. | |
Miscellany. For those things that go nowhere else. |
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