Milo and the Calf

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    Top 20 Posts and Pages

    Milo just went over the 200,000 hit mark, which is pretty cool. By far the most popular section of this sprawling mess is the Boston Qualifier Questionnaire, which, if you’re a runner, is worth checking out. But in this post, I thought I’d highlight the 20 most popular posts on that aren’t related to the…

  • Review — Parker’s There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

    There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce Morgan Parker “I do whatever I want because I could die any minute I don’t mean YOLO I mean they are hunting me” This book is a gut punch. Full of lines like the above, angry and wounded. But it is also full of moments of real tenderness…

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    Review: Mosley’s Red Death

    Walter Mosley The second Easy Rawlins novel, filled with the detail of place and time that all fans of the series enjoy. (I reviewed the first one here). This one finds our protagonist tied up in a red scare witch hunt involving a Jewish socialist working in a Black church, a back to Africa group…

  • Book Review – Nagle’s Kill All Normies

    Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right Angela Nagle A brief overview of the current state of online culture from 4-chan style alt-right shock trolling, to gender nonconforming tumblr communities. Really informative for an old man like me, it traces the way left and right online activists…

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    Review – Newports Deep Work

    Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Cal Newport A wake up call for a distracted internet user like myself. A call to arms to regain our attention from those who wish to monetize and destroy it. A guidebook for how to begin to rebuild your attention to succeed in the new…

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    Gurdjieff, Work, and the Dark Side of Hidden Truths — A review of some books about a now largely forgotten mystic that is really more of a memoir about me and a story about a guy I used to know.

    This site’s mostly archives now. I’m writing fresh things over at Substack Come say hi: www.miloandthecalf.substack.com   Meetings with Remarkable Men, G.I. Gurdjieff Luba Gurdjieff: A Memoir with Recipes, Luba Gurdjieff Everitt Gurdjieff: A Biography, James Moore Our Life With Mr. Gurdjieff, Thomas and Olga De Hartmann Boyhood with Gurdjieff, Fritz Peters The Unknowable Gurdjieff,…

  • Book Review: Bosker’s Cork Dork

    Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste Bianca Bosker A fun book about the world of tasting in general, and wine and sommeliers in particular. I love these sort of experiential journalism books – enterprising young reporter talks to eccentrics…

  • Review: Simenon’s Pietr the Latvian

    Pietr the Latvian Georges Simenon The first of the many, many Maigret novels. Many smart people love these novels, but I’m not yet convinced. The writing is strong, the characters compelling, and the plot serviceable, but there’s more than a whiff of anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiment here. I might give one more a try since…

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    Review: Sun Tzu’s The Art of War

    The Art of War Sun Tzu I don’t know. Far be it from me to disparage a classic of Chinese literature, but I was underwhelmed. A series of aphorism ostensibly proving advice on the conduct of a successful military leader, this must read of the management consultant can also be viewed as a general guide…

  • Review: Woodward and Bernstein’s All The Presidents Men

    All the President’s Men Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein I’m as surprised as you are that I never read this book before. Sure, I’ve seen the movie, and know the story, but reading this play by play of how Woodward and Bernstein uncovered the levels of deceit and criminality in the Nixon White House is…