Cyberflanerie: Marginal Revolution, Lefsetz Letter, Rachel Laudan, The Contrary Farmer, DC Bike Blogger, Of Two Minds, Femme et Fleur, Good Food in Mexico City, Bookman's Blog

BOB LEFSETZ

A few of my current blog faves:

The Lefsetz Letter
Bob Lefsetz's illuminating ruminations on the music biz (and misc.)
Sample posts: La Super-Rica and Taylor Swift in Vanity Fair

Marginal Revolution
Extra curious and crunchy economics, food, travel, whatnot by economists Tyler Cowan and Alex Tabarrok
Sample post: Phishing for Phools

GENE LOGSDON

The Contrary Farmer
Gene Logsdon on farming
Sample posts: To Survive in Farming, Try Taoism and Deep Trouble Down in the Ground

Rachael Laudan
Food history by my favorite food historian
Sample post: My Great-Grandmother's Industrially Processed Food

DC Bike Blogger
Bike adventures in the Nation's Capital
Sample post: Three Eggs in Space

Of Two Minds
Charles Hugh Smith's observations and advice on the loomin' doom
Sample posts: Don't Let the Dessert Cart on the Titantic Pass You By and Stop Financializing the Human Experience

CAROL MERKEL

Femme et Fleur

Milliner Carol Merkel's joyous commentary on fashion, art, and travel

Sample post: Paul

Good Food in Mexico City
Nicholas Gilman, author of a yummy book with the same title
Sample post: Mushroom season in Mexico

Bookman's Log
By author and rare book dealer Greg Gibson
Sample Post: My Bold Plan and Its Daring Execution

> As ever, I welcome your comments on this blog

Writers Blogs (and My Blog): 
Eight Conclusions After 8 years of Blogging

Q & A with Independent Publisher Michele Orwin, 

Founding Editor of Bacon Press Books

Rather Good, These Peculiar Little Videos

Cyberflanerie: Mexico Book Edition

I'm presenting my book-- translated by Agustin Cadena-- Odisea metafísca hacia la Revolución Mexicana, Francisco I. Madero y su libro secreto, next week, on the 25th at 7 pm at the Centro de Estudios de la Historia de México CARSO in Mexico City. Presenters include Rose Mary Salum, Luis Cerda, Javier Garcíadiego, Manuel Guerra de Luna, and Yolia Tortolero Cervantes. >>Details here. << I am especially delighted to be able to present the book in this venue because it is the home of President Francisco I. Madero's personal library, very possibly the most important collection of late 19th - early 20th century esoterica in Latin America.

Food historian Rachael Laudan's  superb Cuisine and Empire, which has quite a bit to do with Mexico, is now available in paperback.

Nancy Marie Brown recommends Anders Winroth's The Age of the Vikings, so it must be good. I downloaded the Kindle and am avidly reading-- I have this theory (could be solid, could be a marshmallow puff) about raiding by Vikings and Comanches... stay tuned. 

(Just an aside: the Vikings smoked pot as early as the mid-9th century.)

Updates on my recommended books on Mexico page include Brian DeLays's The War of a Thousand Deserts. Must reading for anyone who wants to understand the US-Mexican War-- and the Comanches. More about this book anon.

Out in March, looks fascinating: Sharman Apt Russel's YA novel Teresa of the New World. 

Out in April, must read: Sam Quinones' Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic.
(>Read my review of his True Tales from Another Mexico for Wilson Quarterly.)

Top of my reading tower: Laila Lalami's novel based on the story of Cabeza de Vaca & Co., The Moor's Account.

>Your COMMENTS are always welcome.

Links Noted: Mexico, Books, Wheat, Peewee Herman, Margaret Atwood on the Anchovies

Margaret Atwood is ablogging. Why the anchovies are restless: her keynote speech for Tools of Change 2011, available as a free video, is well worth watching.

Rachael Laudan offers some context on wheat.

Borderland Beat. Like the title says.

Jose Padua at Shendandoah Breakdown.

And more along the lines of Mondo Barbie: Rick Peabody and Life in the Trenches by DC Poet & King of Iota, Miles David Moore.

Asher Baggott Bode: sounds like a law firm, but it's the website of the successor to Joyce Carol Oates (all respect intended). Thanks, Sandra Gulland, for the tip.

Prophet of Doom James Howard Kunstler asks the perhaps inevitable question, "Why don't we drop Peewee Herman on Libya?"

Read his most recent post here. Seriously, great blog.

Deborah Batterman, "Good Things Come in Threes", in which she recommends 6 Books.

Over at Burro Hall, find out what King Kong, the Gobernator, Osama Bin Laden, Winston Churchill, and the Exorcist have in common.

Pain in the English

Fascinating "visual essays" by Franke James.

My favorite feng shui expert Carol Olmstead summarizes my blog post on decluttering a library.

Blogs Noted: University of Chicago on Friedrich Katz, Rachael Laudan on Mexican Potatoes, Joe Ahearn's Bat Terrier, Quarterly Conversation & more

University of Chicago News
Friedrich Katz, the great historian of Mexico, has died.

The Smartly NY
Deborah Batterman on (Un)American Activities

Rachel Laudan
On why Mexican potatoes are so lousy

Colonial Mexico

Conduit of Joy

John Cleese on Creativity
(video)

109 Year Old Man
(video)

Eddy & Schein
10 Mistakes to Avoid (note especially the one about ID.)

5 Ways Augmented Reality is Making Your Life More Sharable

History Unfolding
What You Learn in France

Pen Hallow Press
Independent publishing and letterpress publishing

The Quarterly Conversation
Fall 2010 issue

Eternal Earthbound Pets
Not a blog but, oh well, maybe when the Rapture comes...

Answers from SilenceAn enlightened take on 2012

Bat Terrier
Joe Ahearn's blog

www.core77.com
A good on-line design mag.

http://jbrae72.popslice.com/07.-videos (video) San Francisco earthquake footage.