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The blizzard of ’69December 1st, 2010 BY PATSY TOMPKINS If I hadn’t been on probation and confined to campus, I never would have gone in to Boston that weekend. I was told that I had broken a rule: I hadn’t signed out for Christmas break. I don’t remember ever signing out, or in, at college for anything, ever. My roommate and best friend Liz knew a guy in Boston who would let us crash at his place. I don’t remember much about him or what we did, except for two major firsts: the incredible joy of eating a whole bag of chocolate malt balls when you have the stoned munchies, and hearing the sound track to 2001: A Space Odyssey through a stereo head set. Richard Strauss never tasted so good.
Posted by: The Editors November 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 11 — November 2010November 1st, 2010 The All Food Issue In the cover article of our All Food Issue, Are you gonna eat that?, Ed Goldberg reviews a life spent loving food and pitying those who merely eat to live. In Getting the hang of it, from our Black Lamb Archives, we reprint Cate Garrison’s classic tale of of an Englishwoman struggling to prepare a Thanksgiving meal. Elizabeth Fournier confesses her love of bacon in Can’t get enough.
Posted by: The Editors Getting the hang of itThanksgiving — one of those damned colonial mysteriesNovember 1st, 2010 BY CATE GARRISON No matter how long you live there, a foreign country remains mysterious. Even when the language purports to be the same as your mother tongue, some little turn of phrase or cultural reference, or just the accenting of an unexpected syllable, can send you rushing to the reference library in your effort to acculturate.
Posted by: The Editors October 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 10 — October 2010October 1st, 2010 In our cover article, Uncle Hob, John M. Daniel writes about one of his least accomplished but most memorable relatives. In There oughta be a law, Greg Roberts lists some surprising things that he thinks should be done away with. Dean Suess ruminates on the results of a tarot reading in In the cards.
Posted by: The Editors Fun with mathOctober 1st, 2010 BY JOEL HESS I just play all the time and am fortunate enough to get paid for it. Although this column is primarily concerned with language and linguistics, I would be remiss not to acknowledge the passing in May of one of the heroes of my youth, the inestimable Martin Gardner. Gardner, born in Tulsa in 1914, never took a math course beyond high school, where he struggled with calculus. Even though at first he considered himself poor at mathematical puzzles, and majored not in mathematics but in philosophy at the University of Chicago, he ended up almost single-handedly reviving interest in recreational mathematics in the United States, first through his editorship of the children’s magazine Humpty Dumpty, where his innovative stories, puzzles and games in the 1950s inspired multitudes of wide-eyed kids, and later through his column entitled “Mathematical Games” in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981, and in a series of books based on those columns, in which he entertainingly delved into such mathematical curiosities as flexagons, game theory, tangrams, Penrose tiling, polyominoes, fractals, the board games Nim, Hex, and Mill, the artwork of M.C. Escher, Turing machines, hypercubes, Möbius strips, and much more. He even touched on recreational linguistics through his explorations of codes and ciphers.
Posted by: The Editors September 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 9 — September 2010September 1st, 2010 The All School Issue In the cover article of this All-School Issue, Rock, rock, rock ‘n’ roll high school, Beren deMotier is glad her own kids aren’t as wild as she was back in the day. In Boom times, Terry Ross gives his views on what happened to American education. John M. Daniel remembers his short stint as a school teacher in The Cheese.
Posted by: The Editors CrushesSeptember 1st, 2010 BY ELIZABETH FOURNIER I was sitting outside the principal’s office of my tiny Catholic grade school yet again. Sister Bernadette just couldn’t get her habit around the fact I was in love. She deemed it inappropriate to write “I (heart) Shaun Cassidy!” all over my white pleather Jordache purse with a pink felt pen. I had written the same thing on my Pee-Chee folder, but that time in purple.
Shaun was dreamy on TV, but in my upstairs bedroom, I was his front row audience. We had a super hush-hush friendship: Shaun, his Adam’s apple, and little old fourth-grade me. I wore out the grooves on his vinyl disks. I studied the liner notes of all his albums and even inked in my name as acknowledgment for his inspiration.
Posted by: The Editors August 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 8 — August 2010August 1st, 2010 In the cover story of our August issue, Black Lamb newcomer Benjamin Feliciano begins a column that will be called Day In, Day Out with A day in the life. In American dreamer, Terry Ross tells the story of his immigrant paternal grandfather, Louis Roslafsky. John M. Daniel reflects on the guitars in his life in Gifts with strings attached.
Posted by: The Editors American dreamerThe secret life of Louis RoslafskyAugust 1st, 2010 BY TERRY ROSS I didn’t know my Grandpa Louie… really know him. My brothers and sister didn’t know him, either. I’m not sure his own son, my father, knew him.
Posted by: The Editors July 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 7 — July 2010July 1st, 2010 The Black Lamb Review of Books In this Black Lamb Review of Books, a seventh annual issue devoted entirely to books and reading, editor Terry Ross reflects on his springtime reading, which as included four novels by Frederick Buechner, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, two books by Jim Harrison, a Forties noir classic, and novels by Wallace Stegner, Edith Wharton, and Frederic Raphael. Greg Roberts reports on the autobiography of Isaac Stephenson, an honest politician vilified during his lifetime.
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