3 reminders
I got three reminders this week from the blogosphere:
On Wednesday, Wally Conger reminded those of us who'd failed to notice, that it's been one year since the death of anarchist and "Left Rothbardian" Sam Konkin, also known as SEK3.
I learned about Konkin from reading the science fiction novel, Alongside Night, by J. Neil Schulman. (I wrote Mr. Schulman to tell him the ebook shopping cart on his website was broken, and he was generous enough to give me a free copy of the book!)
Alongside Night pointed me to Agorism and Konkin's New Libertarian Manifesto, which finally got me to start reading Murray Rothbard.
Yesterday, Tom Ender published Bob Wallace's review of an old detective/adventure novel, The Green Ripper, by John D. MacDonald.
(And I just noticed that Lew Rockwell did, too.)
Here I show the original paperback book cover as I remember it when I first read this book around age 14. This was one of the books that got me to finally start reading.
All of MacDonald's Travis McGee novels have a color in the title, which McGee-as-first-person-narrator eventually works into his narration. What Wallace doesn't mention is what this title means -- a title which I can never forget because it's so connected to this book cover. The Green Ripper is how McGee and his girlfriend refer to Death personified. Their in-joke is based on a story they heard of a kid who had terrible nightmares about "The Green Ripper" coming to take him away. Eventually his parents figure out that he's misheard some grown-up talk about The Grim Reaper. When McGee loses his girlfriend to a domestic terrorist ring (this book was written in the late 1970s!) McGee infiltrates the ring to exact his revenge, wishing he could take on The Green Ripper himself.
Finally, Thomas L. Knapp reminds us, "There is, in fact, still a war on." Have a look at his lists of "a few of the people you haven't been hearing much about lately" and also "a few of the people who, all in all, are glad you aren't hearing about it".
Reminder #1
On Wednesday, Wally Conger reminded those of us who'd failed to notice, that it's been one year since the death of anarchist and "Left Rothbardian" Sam Konkin, also known as SEK3.I learned about Konkin from reading the science fiction novel, Alongside Night, by J. Neil Schulman. (I wrote Mr. Schulman to tell him the ebook shopping cart on his website was broken, and he was generous enough to give me a free copy of the book!)Alongside Night pointed me to Agorism and Konkin's New Libertarian Manifesto, which finally got me to start reading Murray Rothbard.
Reminder #2
Yesterday, Tom Ender published Bob Wallace's review of an old detective/adventure novel, The Green Ripper, by John D. MacDonald.(And I just noticed that Lew Rockwell did, too.)
Here I show the original paperback book cover as I remember it when I first read this book around age 14. This was one of the books that got me to finally start reading.
All of MacDonald's Travis McGee novels have a color in the title, which McGee-as-first-person-narrator eventually works into his narration. What Wallace doesn't mention is what this title means -- a title which I can never forget because it's so connected to this book cover. The Green Ripper is how McGee and his girlfriend refer to Death personified. Their in-joke is based on a story they heard of a kid who had terrible nightmares about "The Green Ripper" coming to take him away. Eventually his parents figure out that he's misheard some grown-up talk about The Grim Reaper. When McGee loses his girlfriend to a domestic terrorist ring (this book was written in the late 1970s!) McGee infiltrates the ring to exact his revenge, wishing he could take on The Green Ripper himself.
Reminder #3
Finally, Thomas L. Knapp reminds us, "There is, in fact, still a war on." Have a look at his lists of "a few of the people you haven't been hearing much about lately" and also "a few of the people who, all in all, are glad you aren't hearing about it".
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