night swimming

"There might be sharks out there."

"I don't care. I need to do this."

How perfectly cool is this bit of news from the NYT?

Oliver Sacks Joins Columbia Faculty as ‘Artist’

The new appointment will allow Dr. Sacks, the author of 10 books and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, to range freely across Columbia’s departments, teaching, giving public lectures, conducting seminars, seeing patients and collaborating with other faculty members. Many of the details of his appointment have yet to be worked out, but among other things, he will be teaching in the university’s creative writing department as well as at the medical school.

Hearing about this new interdisciplinary position makes me happy. My two life goals: philanthropy and (more importantly) creative leeway.

baltimore foodies

They're out there.

I've found two more blogs I'm fond of.

Curiously Ravenous - classic blog styling; a good Baltimore cook and lover of food.

Marginal Foodie - "Gastronomic Economics and Baltimore Restaurant Guide". I really dig the graphs.

In case you were wondering where the title came from.

August 2007 - the books.

What is the What, D. Eggers*
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II, J. Conant*
Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication, S. Walton
Dry, A. Burroughs
Ghost World, D. Clowes
My Family and Other Animals, G. Durrell*

Ghost World was a housewarming gift. Thank you, Bateman.