Wanderings: Birthday Joys

Helping my mate with his film project, I came across this photo of him and his brother (who is exactly 367 days younger than him) which is perfect.

Happy Birthday Teddy (Oct 24) and Peter (Oct 26)!

Recent Reads

Paul Fussell: Class-A Guide Through the American Status System (I liked this...and want to read more from this guy)
Gregorio F. Zaide: Rizal: Asia's First Apostle of Nationalism (it's okay, but this guy find NO faults in Rizal which is weird)
F. Sionil Jose: Three Filipino Women (novellas)
Barack Obama: Dreams of My Father
Michael Shapiro (ed?): A Sense of Place (Read it...you'll love it)
Paul Theroux: Sailing Through China
Richard Paul Evans: The Christmas Box
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Friedman: A Mind of Its Own-A Cultural History of the Penis (Very Humorous)
Friedman: The Immortalists--Lindbergh and Carrel trying to live forever
Pollan: In Defense of Food, An Eater's Manifesto
Pollan: Omnivore's Dilemma--FANTASTIC, albeit the slap in the face about our role in industrialized food
Sullivan: Cross Country--A blog-like book about cross country driving. It may give you the itch to travel.
Gould: Full House (Fantastic Writer of Evolutionary Ideas)
Pieribone & Gruber: A Glow in the Dark--The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence
Josse: Uberpower (Great for those who want to keep up with political history) PLEASE Read.
Zimmer: Parasite Rex (Not for the Faint at Heart)
Zimmer: Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
Nabham: Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, Cultural Diversity
Douthat: Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class

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