Selected Readings
Very busy here housesitting my parents pad. I’m finding I need lots of time for reading by the fire, growing my beard, taking hour long breaks in the sauna room and watching as much reality television as possible. Have you seen the one where M.C. Hammer, Vince Neil, and that kid from “Goonies” all live in the same house? It’s like reading those old Bizzaro World comics, where Superman is as evil as a Michigan University affirmative action case and Lex Luthor is our savior George Bush, come to save us from ourselves.

While rummaging through the stacks of my parents library, I thought I would share a top ten list of the titles that I have enjoyed browsing:

1. Wood: New Directions in Design and Architecture
2. The Polar Bear Waltz and Other Moments of Epic Silliness
3. The Unfinished City
4. The Craft of the Japanese Sword
5. Code Breaking: A History and Exploration
6. Outwitting Ticks
7. American Chrome
8. Going, Going, Gone: Vanishing Americana
9. Letters to a Young Poet
10. The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line: A Trip Through Twin City Memories