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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
More Fun With Maps
Did you know this? The city of St. John’s, in Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada), holds an impressive geographical curiosity: despite being in the same country as Vancouver, in the far west, St. John’s is closer to places like Finland, the … Continue reading
“ A Thousand Kisses Deep”
“We don’t write the play, we don’t produce it, we don’t direct it , and we are not even actors in it. Everybody eventually comes to the conclusion that things are not unfolding exactly the way they wanted, and that … Continue reading
Take the train
I really enjoyed playing with the new website Chrono Trains . Plug in any train station in Europe and this website will show you exactly how far you can travel on the continent’s rail networks within a set period of … Continue reading
Bookstore Tourism: Seoul
MoMA in New York City has opened a bookstore in Seoul, South Korea residents and visitors in the Korean city will find the new space in the Dosan Park area of Gangnam, the fast-growing and now-iconic neighborhood south of the … Continue reading
Never has our future been more unpredictable
Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of … Continue reading
“The world is not in your books and maps. It’s out there.”
George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. of London published the first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit on this date in 1937. It was illustrated with many black-and-white drawings by Tolkien himself. The original printing was only a 1,500 run and sold out by December due to enthusiastic … Continue reading
Travelers still need (and love) maps
It’s been years since I visited the tiny state of Rhode Island, but the next time that I go I will definitely make time for the Map Center. Cartographer Andrew Middleton took over the 70 year old shop two years ago … Continue reading
Top Secret
The 1984 action comedy Top Secret! contains an odd sequence set in a Swedish bookstore. Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, and Peter Cushing acted the entire scene backward, and the filmmakers then reversed this performance to produce a dreamlike atmosphere in which … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Film, Uncategorized
Tagged Bookstores on film, Cinema, Peter Cushing
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Fill your life with metaphors. And then explode.
Ray Bradbury // “Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don’t intellectualize. Get passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images… Stay off the internet and all that crap. Read all the great books. Read all the great … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Jorge Luis Borges, Rod Serling, Sylvia Plath
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