Pictures I like

[North Star]

Good point - wonder if he contemplated that - though STOP is more compelling in the title.

True. But I'm still amused by the train tracks on the cover

[kishnevi]

Two clever covers of recent books.  I have long hoped to write an article on the meaning and use of railroad-related images in modern Am. culture (most see RRs as antiquated - they are anything but! - and the survival of steam locomotives and cabooses in the public imagination is fascinating in and of itself) but I've always been hung-up on methodology.  The author's name of the Internet-related title is cause for wonderment!  And concern.

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As for the other book....fascination with trains is a well known trait among Aspies. It is something of a stereotype but not devoid of reality.  Robinson was undoubtedly playing off that. (As you might guess, I perseverate on music, not trains.)

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

As for the other book....fascination with trains is a well known trait among Aspies. It is something of a stereotype but not devoid of reality.  Robinson was undoubtedly playing off that. (As you might guess, I perseverate on music, not trains.)

Quite so!  In fact, there was an excellent NYT article from several years ago on that very topic : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/nyregion/children-with-autism-connecting-via-bus-and-train.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[Moonfish]

A good symbolic image for our music addictions....   

[Mookalafalas]

A good symbolic image for our music addictions....   

  I agree that it is a good symbol of our situation. But does this represent addiction? I think he is the luckiest rabbit in the cosmos. 

[Moonfish]

  I agree that it is a good symbol of our situation. But does this represent addiction? I think he is the luckiest rabbit in the cosmos.

Yes, but will he die from eating too many carrots? That is the question....   

[Mirror Image]

A good symbolic image for our music addictions....   

Pick a carrot. Any carrot.

[Mookalafalas]

Yes, but will he die from eating too many carrots? That is the question....   

  I don't think carrots are something one gorges to death on, even for a rabbit.
   I will confess here that I do intend to listen to classical music til it kills me--but I am pretty sure it will take 30 or more years

[Moonfish]

  I don't think carrots are something one gorges to death on, even for a carrot.
   I will confess here that I do intend to listen to classical music til it kills me--but I am pretty sure it will take 30 or more years

Your brain will be crammed to the brim with carrots!!!

[Bogey]

While you folks have been chatting, I found this little guy in my backyard wanting more :

[Mookalafalas]

While you folks have been chatting, I found this little guy in my backyard wanting more :

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

A good symbolic image for our music addictions....   

A good symbolic image for my vegetarian predilections...
I love this image - thanks - for posting it.

[Ken B]

While you folks have been chatting, I found this little guy in my backyard wanting more :

I live along the edge of a nature preserve, and most of the summer saw a bunny each day. Then since August, no more bunny sightings. 
I hope it was carrot overload ...

[Moonfish]

I live along the edge of a nature preserve, and most of the summer saw a bunny each day. Then since August, no more bunny sightings. 
I hope it was carrot overload ...

Wasn't it in August when you started to listen more seriously to Stockhausen and Ligeti?

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

While you folks have been chatting, I found this little guy in my backyard wanting more :

He reminds me of Carter's "Attack Rabbit!" 

[Bogey]

Live in Colorado since '84 and did not see a rabbit until close to 2008.  Now you cannot count them all as you drive down our suburb road.

Hmmm,  saw this dreadful movie as a kid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yww2x3bm9k

[Moonfish]

Zombie fingers...

[Bogey]

Zombie fingers...

Sweet.

[ibanezmonster]

Not sure if this will stay up, but my score after guessing test questions so I could see the answers. I should frame this and hang it on the wall.

[Todd]