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 Lolita: John
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
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)
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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