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Sterne Agee & Leach Group appointed James Dixon as senior managing director of private client group. Mr. Dixon joined Sterne Agee in 1994; he has worked in equity trading, fixed income trading and the private client group. Prior to his new position, Mr. Dixon was involved in the management of the Birmingham private client office.

I learned about this via Naida at the bookworm, who in turn learned about it from J. Kaye at J. Kaye’s Book Blog. The basic idea is: to post a picture, or tell how and when these books got into your to-be-read pile, or give a mini-review of the books in progress. For more details, visit the site.

At Cinematical, Erik Davis notes that although some bloggers fretted that Sony Pictures Classics would allow The Wackness to “disappear in limited release … and be eaten by a Cabbage Patch Kid, or whatever,” the film actual opening weekend “numbers [were] pretty frickin’ awesome.” And yet, are said fretting bloggers “congratulating SPC on a job well done? Nope.

I just finished the book, We Are The People: Voices from the other side of American history. This book is a compilation of essays, excerpts, letters and oral histories as told by ordinary and extraordinary people.

Filed under: Comedy, Fan RantAs a long time fan of the original TV show, and as a grown up version of the kid who used to memorize William Johnston's paperbacks ... as a former elementary school student who went in for as many tedious "Would you believe?" jokes as the legions of film critics writing about this week's box office success ...

We are born into a time from which we may try to escape by writing beyond or ahead of our time, which is to say historical writing or science fiction speculative writing. Few readers, fewer critics looks at this as worth any serious notice.

By Kevin Guilfoile It feels like one of those lazy Fridays when everyone is getting ready to blow out for somewhere else, and so it's appropriate that my one time employer and second family, Coudal Partners, has launched a new edition of Field Tested Books where a group of writers and bloggers

Happy Father’s Day! (I hope you have a good one). Luckily for you these Top 10 Movie Dads are available all year round. Here’s the final Top 10, in a brands new order - including a new #1 and #2 that haven’t been listed yet.

#7) Jack Torrance in The Shining The combination of Kubrick and Nicholson should be reason enough to understand why Torrance makes this list but beyond that he is one of the most terrifying fathers ever to grace a movie screen.

A Father’s Day Moment: Only a Dad, But the Best of Men Only A Dad By Edgar Albert Guest Only a dad with a tired face, Coming home from the daily race, Bringing little of gold or fame To show how well he has played the game; But glad in his heart that his own rejoice To see him come and to hear his voice.