Michael DeBow's Internet Links Page -- Section XIV, Diversions.
Last updated:  February 22, 2008
 

Humor:

James Lileks website and Bleat
The incomparable Iowahawk
Dave Barry website and blog
 Larry Miller website
The New Yorker cartoon bank
The Bob and Ray Homepage
        200 Bob & Ray programs via OTR
Why a Duck? (Marx Brothers)
Thurber's World (and welcome to it!)
Tribute to Jean Shepherd (humorist, author of "A Christmas Story")
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Le Show  (radio show performed by Harry Shearer, known esp. for his voices for
        The Simpsons)
Overheard in New York
Overheard in the Office
Overheard at the Beach
Homepage of S. Morgan Friedman, author of the Overheard websites (= more funny stuff)
The Peoples' Cube ("correct opinions for progressive liberals")
The Smoking Gun

Plan 59 (retro graphics)
The Swank Pad
Do What Now (Jim Dunn's humor blog)

Movies:

The Internet Movie Database
British Film Institute - Screen Online
Reel Classics
Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense
Museum of Modern Art exhibition on Hitchcock
Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide
The Kubrick Site
The unofficial Whit Stillman website (the only active movie director who would be the subject of a book published by ISI Press, and the subject of this article in the winter '04 issue of City Journal)
James Bowman  (literate, dead-on movie reviews)
Libertas ("a forum for conservative thought on film")
Turner Classic Movies blog

WavCentral (a big site)
Many WAV files (from TV and movies, mostly)
Destitute Gulch (cool "movie reviews and sounds")
Tiger Sweat (ditto)

TV:

The Prisoner: Number Six
    The Prisoner Appreciation Society
    Once Upon a Time: Online Prisoner Magazine
The Avengers ("Mrs. Peel, we're needed.")
Twin Peaks fan site, includes a great quotes page
    self-billed Official Twin Peaks site
Mystery Science Theater 3000  (official fan club site)
    Michael J. Nelson's website
Ben Stein's House
Seinfeld Quotes  (lots of 'em!)
EpGuides (episode guides for over 2000 TV shows)
Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?
Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion
The Simpsons Archive
King of the Hill  (official Fox page)
    The King of the Hill Information Site (much better site, includes a great quotes page)
The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club

The South:

Anything Southern
Hatch Show Print (Nashville posters)
George Lindsey Film Festival at the U. of North Alabama
Sun Studio website
Junior's Juke Joint (guide to Delta blues)
Alabama's own William Christenberry
William Eggleston's homepage

Center for the Study of Southern Culture   (Ole Miss)
Mississippi Writers Page (Ole Miss)
    Thacker Mountain Radio (from Oxford, MS)
Center for the Study of the American South  (UNC)
W.J. Cash page  (author of "The Mind of the South" and a tragic figure in his own right)
Oxford American magazine
The Southern Review (LSU)
Story South (online literary magazine)

-- Alabama
A Bama Blog (conservative commentary)
Dateline Alabama (from U of A school of communications)

-- Birmingham
Birmingham Rewound (nostalgia central! a nice links page)
Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections
BhamWiki
"Magic City" group on Flickr (photos)
Black & White, "Birmingham's city paper," a weekly
Bhamdining ("Birmingham's restaurant scene")
ALDOT traffic cams

Literature:

The Walker Percy Project
Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies (Western Kentucky U.)
William Faulkner on the Web
    Faux Faulkner and Imitation Hemingway contests (United Airlines)
The Unofficial Charles Portis Website
    A 2003 essay about Portis
    A 2004 essay about Portis

A Bad Hemingway Story: The Website

Tom Wolfe's Jefferson Lecture and interview (2006)
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
The Mencken Society Home Page
Mark Twain sites
    Jim Zwick's large site
    Twain Quotes
    Ken Burns/PBS program
    Mark Twain in His Times (UVA)

P.G. Wodehouse Appreciation Page

The Garden of Forking Paths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Vladimir Nobokov
    on LolitaJohn Derbyshire (2006), Frank Meyer (1958)
Robertson Davies page
Travesties: The Stagecraft of Tom Stoppard

Art:

Edward Hopper sites
    Whitney Museum of American Art
    WebMuseum
    Smithsonian's Edward Hopper Scrapbook
    Artcyclopedia
    CGFA
    Tate Museum (London)
    Art Renewal Center
    National Gallery of Art (DC), describing a major exhibition September 07-January08

Terry Teachout's blog (Commentary Magazine's music critic, Wall Street Journal's drama critic)

American Museum of Photography
William Wegman World
 Eastman Museum of Photography

Architecture:

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
    Broadacre: All-Wright Site
The Cottage Home Network
American Bungalow
Tiny House Company
House of Tomorrow and others, from the 1933 World's Fair
Duany Plate-Zyberk & Co., Architects & Town Planners (designers of Seaside, Florida & etc.) and the new Alabama towns of  Gorham's Bluff  and  Mt Laurel.   (Property students -- N.B. The fact that I like their developments does not mean that I subscribe to their anti-"sprawl" rhetoric.)
The Great Buildings Collection
from the Pevsner Archtitecture Guides: Looking at Buildings (UK)
Rural Studio (Auburn architecture)
Paul Rudolph Foundation
Chicago Architects Oral History Project (interviews)

Music:

Mose Allison page ("the sage from Tippo")
The Dave Brubeck Institute (at the U of the Pacific)
The Band
Bob Dylan
Randy Newman ("Welcome to Newmanville!")
John Prine Shrine
The Van Morrison Website
The Name of This Site is Talking Heads.Net
John Pizzarelli Trio

The Blues (PBS)
American Roots Music (PBS)
The Red Hot Jazz Archive ("a history of jazz before 1930")

Folkstreams.net ("documentary films about American roots cultures")

Internet radio:

WWOZ New Orleans  (a great jazz-blues-zydeco, etc. station)
WDCB (NPR, but blues and jazz, especially)
    Year of the Blues (listen online to companion radio program of PBS series)
KGSR 107.1 Radio Austin
TheJazz.com  (British internet station)

Allegro ("musical public radio programs via streaming audio")
Highway 61 ("living blues radio")
American Routes (NPR)

Live 365  (The World's Largest Internet Radio Network)
AccuRadio (multiple channels)
Yahoo Radio Station Guide
Windows Radio Tuner
spoken-word Radio Netherlands (English)

Museum of Broadcast Communications

-- Classical
WQXR (NYC)
WETA (DC)
WCPE (Wake Forest, NC)
WUAL (Tuscaloosa)
Classical Live Online Radio (worldwide links)
Radio Swiss Classic (MP3)
Danish Radio
ClassicFM

-- BBC
BBC Radio with link to the BBC Radio Player
BBC Radio 4 interview archive
Alistair Cooke’s “Letter from America” (BBC Radio 4)

-- Old time radio programs
Internet Archive radio programs
Free Old Time Radio Shows
Old Time Radio Fans
OTR Network Library
Radio Spirits

Travel:

Road Trip USA -- now with blog and podcasts
Roadside America ("guide to uniquely odd tourist attractions")
Roadside Attractions (Yahoo)
Roadside Peek  (photos of "the old routes across North America")
Penny Postcards
Scenic Highways and Biways (incl Route 66) (Yahoo)
Road Trip America
AARoads ("the online highway guide" -- a remarkable site)
Roadfood.com  (just what it says)
US Highways (also worth a look)
American Highway Project (big site)
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (PBS)
Palin's Travels (Michael Palin, that is)
Places OnLine (from the Association of American Geographers)
TerraServer  (very cool site, featuring satellite photos and/or USGS topo maps of most of the USA)
Web Cam Central  (not what you're thinking)
Hubble Space Telescope main page
Astronomy Picture of the Day (from NASA)
Google Sightseeing ("why bother seeing the world for real?")

Other:

Paleo-Future: A Look into the Future that Never Was

Museum of Online Museums

The Remarkable Criminal Financial Career of Charles K. Ponzi (famous purveyor of the pyramid scheme)

Alan Turing Home Page (eccentric genius, WWII code-breaker and father of modern computing)

Farmers' Almanac

Dead or Alive?  (just what it sounds like)
The Blog of Death (ditto)
Find a Grave  (ditto)
Legacy.com  ("your nationwide resource for obituaries and guest books")

Advertising World  (a big links page at the U. of Texas Austin)

The RAF's Aerial Reconnaissance Archives (WWII)

The Economist: The World This Millennium
The Economist magazine's survey of the history of the 20th century
Uchronia: The Alternate History List
Chronicle of the Future (the Times of London's "history" of the years 2000-2050)
Video clips from Movietone newsreels, 1919-1944 (U. of S. Carolina; requires Quick Time player)
The Open Video Project ("a shared digital video collection")
Archival Sound Recordings (British Library)

The Shakespeare Authorship Coalition ("doubt about Will")
 

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