I'm just counting books that I read for the first time this year . . . which is too bad. I had some excellent re-reads this year, including In Cold Blood, American Psycho, The Golden Compass, and The Things They Carried. Anyway, here is the list. It could have been a lot longer, but I decided to give you beautiful people a tight twenty (in ( Read more... )

You know what's really gross ( Read more... )

Many times in this space I have rambled lovingly about the glories of "Library Day." Last week I went to the library and found a book that I had been wanting to read for a while--Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (I'm about fifty pages in, underwhelmed so far, but that's beside the point ( Read more... )

We have an odd neighbor. A month or two ago, her television kept us up all night. kuhal left her a polite note and she waited for me to leave for work so she could babble on and on about how it wasn't her television . . . it was a football game at the high school (several blocks away) . . . . at 3 AM. So, okay. I figured she was just embarrassed and ( Read more... )

What the package says:

Eclipse Fusion is a breath freshening experience unlike any other. It gives you a burst of instant breath freshening flavor that transitions to a fusion of mint and cooling fruit flavor that really lasts.

The reality:

It doesn't really last.

So one interesting thing about this year was that I had only used seven personal hours all year. And three of those were scheduled, so that was five unscheduled hours off ( Read more... )

kuhal made this for me.


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Finally everybody was loaded on the Ark!
"What a job!" Noah exclaimed.
"I hope the dinosaurs don't find out we left them behind," Noah's wife said.
Noah laughed. "Don't worry about it! I totally left them a note that said we were going to the movies. By the time they realize we're really on the Ark, it'll be too late!"


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. . . I tend to read about pseudoscience and pseudohistory, two things that are amazingly and endlessly fascinating to me. Tonight was a very boring night, so I decided to read some "Creation Science" and "Intelligent Design" webpages ( Read more... )

. . . that seeing Greg Dulli and the Twilight Singers was like the distillation of a thousand impossible dreams all fulfilled at the same moment. IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME.

And I touched his hand.

By the way, Stars of Track and Field (the opening band) are very good and you should check them out . . . if you are so inclined.