Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein. I’m also reading Terry Pratchett’s The Disc World Series which is great for general hilarity and satire. One character is Death, and his dialogue is written in all caps.

Recommends: If you like science fiction peopled with fantastically bizarre aliens, try Vernor Vinge’s work, especially A Fire Upon the Deep and Deepness in the Sky.

Too much TV
Recommends: kittens and butterflies

The Bobs, an a capella quartet.
Recommends: live music in concert

I’m reading a massive tome called The Tiger Story, by Douglas L. Frederick, Jr., a self-published 76-page history of the Tiger tractor. Tiger tractors were small, 5-10 horsepower tractors made in Keyser, West Virginia from 1949-1964. You get the book by writing Frederick and sending him $16 – and if you enclose an extra five bucks you get a Tiger sticker. I sent him twenty bucks extra and got four stickers. I own one Tiger tractor. This month I’m going to New York to buy another one-and-one-half Tigers from a man who can’t work on his tractors anymore because his knees are made of metal. I’m not into reading as much as doing.

Recommends: I did recently read and enjoy The Singing Wilderness, by Sigurd Olsen.   Also Kenny Salwey's Tales of a River Rat: Adventures Along the Wild Mississippi . The author made his living on the Mississippi River, fishing, hunting, trapping etc. I’m thinking of reading the story of the whaler Essex next.

I watch the History Channel. My wife is a history teacher. We also watch Discovery Channel. I did not watch Prince at halftime in the Super Bowl. We switched to the Nature channel and watched Underdogs, a show about rehabilitating bloodhounds.
Recommends: My son and I like to watch Saturday morning fishing shows – especially the salt water shows.

I listen to everything except opera and rap. I like blues, especially old blues. I don’t much like modern country, but I do like Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash.

Recommends: The Reggae Showcase, a Sunday program (2-5 pm) on WRIU, the university’s radio station.