Back now, with a day to decompress from the fourteen hours spent behind the wheel
(thank you Chicago traffic!) and recover from the car lag.

What did I read on my vacation?

• I finished Don't Think Of An Elephant! by George Lakoff


• JPod by Douglas Coupland (thanks, Myra!)


• "Howl" Fifty Years Later edited by Jason Shinder (thanks for getting it from the library, Lynn!)


• I started Talking Right by Geoffrey Nunberg (thanks again, Myra!)

They were all very good. Lakoff and Nunberg were pretty much all over the topic of that paper that I was running that survey for, only first and better. If I had read them before I wrote the paper, I would have given up in disgust and despair. Shinder was fascinating - it's easy to forget just how revolutionary Ginsberg's work was. Coupland was funny and engrossing. I read it pretty much in one morning - I really didn't want to put it down.