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Send a card to a member of the Armed Forces
My church is circulating this information:
Share blessings with soldiers who are far from home by sending a Christmas card to
Red Cross Holiday Mail Call
PO Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456
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I heart Temeraire
I just finished Victory of Eagles, the Temeraire book that came out last July. (If you like fantasy and alternative history and haven't yet discovered these, run forthwith to find His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik.) I loved it -- probably my favorite to date of the so-far five-book series.
Yes, Knitress, I do love the new dragon Perscitia, as ( Read more... ) -
Go, go -- Vote for Sophie (#6) at Freakonomics!
One of my friends is a rockstar!!! Seriously, the lovely moorina, aka Sophie, is one of the finalists in Steve Levitt's economics haiku contest on Freakonomics blog on NYT. You can vote here for her haiku -- which is witty both re: economics and literature, no small feat -- in the comments section of the blog. (Her haiku is #6, the last one listed, but ( Read more... ) -
Home from JadeCon '08
Ahhh. That was good.
Let's see, JadeCon '08.
* Smaller than usual -- maybe 45 people, rather than 60 -- which was badbad (friends missing...) but also good (suite never got overcrowded or overheated). Would be interesting to get the square footage of the suite & divide through to figure out how many square feet per person provided that effect.
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The Olympics spoiled my fun
You can always count on Olympic opening ceremonies to provide perplexing, pointless, not-necessarily-effective spectacle.
Except this one. Wow. Wow! There was pretty much nothing to make fun of -- okay, except for the Chinese cheerleaders dancing to bagpipes playing "Scotland the Brave" while the Turkish team marched in -- and so much to be ( Read more... ) -
What an amazing book
I've just finished Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. Wow.
I started this book last weekend. All week I've been eager for the end of each workday so I could read more on the subway . . . and I've stayed up past my bedtime reading it several nights . . . and I couldn't wait to finish it this morning.
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Couple bits of Who news
Two bits of Who news:
1. No SciFi Friday tonight, wah -- shows return next Friday.
2. It's been announced that Steven Moffat will take over from Russell T. Davies as Who's "showrunner," effective in 2009/10 (in 2009 there will only be a few Who specials, so Tennant can go play the glum Dane; show returns in 2010 with Moffat at the helm). It's not ( Read more... ) -
Sad but not shocking
Chris Bowman has died in the kind of way that has seemed likely for at least fifteen years now. As a skater, he had all the raw material you could want. As a person, he didn't have the ability to handle those gifts and what they brought him.
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The really small things that make life worth living?
Okay, flist, here's a question for you. I was thinking the other day about how there are certain really small things that make a huuuge difference in how smoothly life functions. Often these are things that (a) have no close substitutes, and (b) are slightly awkward to go buy because you have to figure out where to get them ( Read more... ) -
Remember, remember the Fifth of November
Go celebrate by lighting something on fire, ideally not the Houses of Parliament or any close analogue.
In other news, I saw Michael Clayton this weekend. That is the best movie I've seen in a long, long time. Totally grown-up. Spectacularly well-drawn characters within a great script. I'm always especially grateful when a movie shows the drama ( Read more... )