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a great hunger for desolate places: summer reading [3/?]
[1] Sitting calmly, but inside am capslocking and exclamation pointing all over everything because YES GERTRUDE BELL BIO YES YES YES (from Herzog, even). Ahem.
[2] ...the words of a man putting his life in order, as if readying himself for a new life, or death."
[3] I may also possibly be looking forward to the new 4K restoration of LoA that's ( ( Read more... ) -
nobody on the road, nobody on the beach
On a scale of one to ten, my current longing to lie in the sun for hours and hours and hours: roughly a 93.
iI had this goal of doing a real End of Summer post 1) with, I don't know, a collage or even at least just an activity write-up/list, 2) before school got under way, but well, here we are. For-real school started-with-kids the beginning of ( Read more... ) -
summer reading [2/?]
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Not nearly as impressive as frozenemerald's 19, finished, especially since w/ the exception of the Nixs, Wein, and Christie, they're all in various in-progress stages. But I suppose you could say this is what I've been Doing With Myself this summer. Oh: Nixs, Christie, and Dunnett are the re-reads, rest are 'new' (MD kind of qualifies both/either way). Bother ( Read more... ) -
summer reading [1/?]
In lieu of whatever it was I actually meant to post about, going to do a little dance about last week finally getting out of the mini-no comprende palabras reading slump I was in and getting my reading hat back on.
iSometime in the past few months I caught part of a general history of whaling documentary on PBS, which (hello, elision of ( Read more... ) -
On Mercury I'd be 120.4 years old.
This is not: any of the summer movies, reading (subsection), or activities, or state of the state posts ( Read more... ) -
like a preacher stealing hearts at a travelling show
In response to frozenemerald's music ethnography post/query, as there's no way this will fit in a comment. I keep thinking of lines from High Fidelity writing this up, and then snickering, given how much she can't stand that movie.
Soundtrack for this post:- Erasure, “Ship of Fools”
- Kate Bush, “Hounds of Love”
- Florence & the Machine,”Howl,” “Shake It Out” ( ( Read more... )
- Erasure, “Ship of Fools”
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Experiment trajectories: all science, no philosophy
Val Kilmer is *crazy young* in this.
(Apologies in advance for whatever size the photos are; I've forgotten what little coding I knew.)
Old favorite: musesfool's adventures in cooking (recent lust object: frozen cappuccino cups)
Recent favorite: Chocolate Covered Katie (hee), "the healthy dessert blog" (i.e. vegan). See also: her incredible and amazing ( Read more... ) -
sometimes I get emotional over fonts
In the process of transferring a bunch of crap from one HD to another before the former dies (oh, its shrill, frantic beeping; freaked Abby out), kept coming across (old) 85% finished-but-never-posted posts (oh, I used to post so ridiculously much) . Basically abandoned LJ this year (schedule /circumstances /motivation vs inertia), but then I let ( Read more... ) -
the dice were loaded from the start
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Sitting here at the library with eighty minutes on the clock means I really ought to be able to produce some kind of coherent/meaningful post, but let's be honest: today, post-field trip, has been a Planet Pumpkin Castle day. Brain's checked out and is sitting somewhere in the sun, amiably twiddling its thumbs and beaming vacantly off into ( Read more... ) -
When Bookstores Happen: 4 Teachable Events, or Plan vs Execution, or Whither Fiscal Discipline?
Taking advantage of internet! during craft time here at frozenemerald's table.
(Small aside from the illustration aestheticist/snob: Sadly didn't see any of my favorite kids' illustrators, Trina Schart Hyman (must make a note to get her St George and the Dragon for P), Mercer Mayer fairy tales (if you're only familiar w/ his Little Critter books, take a gander ( Read more... )