I'm told there were books at the Alternative Press Expo this weekend in SF. Probably cute little saddle-stitch zines filled with rude comics and breakthrough drawings of nipples and tentacles. However, I had eyes only for the art! Awesome cheap present-ness happened, just like at Friends of the Library. Prints, lithographs, etchings, intaglios, ( Read more... )

I quit my job Friday afternoon. Yes, for real!  I can hardly believe it myself. Nothing in particular happened, I don't have a new job lined up or anything. It's been coming on a long time. I've been over this job for a couple of years, and a few months ago I told my boss I'd quit at the end of my current project, next September - I wanted to leave ( Read more... )

is called The Laughter of Dead Kings, and I am immensely glad to see it! I've been reading her three series (what's the plural of series??) since I was 12, and owe much of my love of ancient Egypt to her. Still, she's written, like, 27 Amelia Peabody mysteries, and she's clearly been bored with them for awhile. Now, she's gone back to another ( Read more... )

I'm taking an online class right now, Intro to Travel Writing. Writing is pretty fun (I actually wrote funny, which I guess is true too), travel is fun/ny, ergo travel writing is fun/ny, right? True enough. However, we have tapped a major weakness of mine, which is, that in the interests of researching possible clients, I get to buy magazines!! ( Read more... )

Take 12 photos on the 12th of the month. See chaddarnell.typepad.com/ for details. Here's my first time doing this: a special, pre-wedding anniversary 12 of 12, featuring cookies and the symphony!

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When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

"Inconceivable!"

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Thank you, saraphina_marie !

This was two weekends ago. I'd never been before. A warehouse of used books, at Fort Mason, while the world's largest yacht was going by. The sadness of so many unwanted books crossed with the giddy joy of so many cheap books! Also, a truly yummy lunch at Green's and a quick stop at the Museum of the Long Now.

I spent a lot of time and money in the ( Read more... )

Courtesy of pasajera , moonlitcirce , and ideaspace

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

And the winner, at a bare 2 inches from my shoulder, is:

"Destroying ( Read more... )

I finally finished this. It's,  um, about what would happen to the world if the human race, and nothing else, were to suddenly disappear. In great detail. What would happen to your house, to the cities, to the farms, the industrial megalopoli, the nuclear power plants... there fascination gave way to depression and I put the book down for 6 months ( Read more... )

My first meme! Aw....

The rules are as follows: Comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list ten things you LOVE that begin with that letter. Afterward, post this in your journal and give out some letters of your own.

pasajera  gave me the letter V.

1. Varo, Remedios: my very favorite artist of all time! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varo
2. Violin and ( Read more... )