The Queue
Recently
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend & "Witch War"
Caroline Alexander, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Richard E. Crabbe, Suspension
Kim Newman, Anno Dracula
John Polidori, "The Vampyre"*

Currently
Ronald Searle & Kaye Webb, Paris Stetchbook
David J. Brown, Bridges: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature
various, Great Adventures with National Geographic (catch as catch can)

Presently
Saki, "The Interlopers"
Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Baron
David M. Friedman, The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
Ernest Shackleton, South
John Toland, The Great Dirigibles: Their Triumphs and Disasters (catch as catch can)
Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd be Cake
John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise

Distantly
Rudyard Kipling, The Man who would be King and Other Stories
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Saki, The Complete Saki

Uncertainly
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale (pg. 87)

*Reputed to be the first English-language vampire story, "The Vampyre" set many of the conventions that still distinguish the vampire of Western literature from the vampire of Eastern European folklore. The story also happens to be utter dreck and I advise you never to sully your eyes with it.

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Elvis Costello & The Attractions, "Oliver's Army" from Armed Forces (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: You don't have to agree with the characterization of the British Army in "Oliver's Army" to enjoy the song, as I most certainly disagree with Costello's charmingly witty lyrics.

Sonntag, 18 Januar
Carl Douglas, "Kung Fu Fighting" via iTunes (T.L.A.M.)