The books and movies I have consumed thus far this year. So's you know what amazing taste I have.

( 2007 )

I think if I were ever a domestic goddess with a(n) magazine/home decor line/empire, à la Martha Stewart, I would promote my latest handy idea in the post-holiday section of my magazine where I share tidbits on what to do with the gifts you're not wild about. I received a kitten calendar, and it's not exactly to my taste. Not because I don't like ( Read more... )

I don't want to overexcite anyone but there is a real possibility that today I am going to finish that behemoth, that 1222-page monster, that obscure compendium of all the French Revolution(s)'(s) greatest hits, full of twists and turns like the 128-mile Parisian sewer; that story with beaucoup de side characters whose life histories are divulged ( Read more... )

And just so we're clear, XM25 remains the worst satellite radio station of all time.

I was going to make a post announcing my paramount revelation that Jason Bateman, George Stephanopoulos, and Jeff Tweedy look exactly alike, but when I went to Google Image I realized they actually don't look a thing alike, and now I'm disappointed.

3rd-hand account of a conversation ( Read more... )

I try not to be too sanctimonious a vegetarian, but if you want to piss me off really quickly, tell me that God created chickens. I had this conversation at work earlier today. One of my coworkers said, "Well, God created chickens, and that's all I have to say about that!" (Though if she had had more to say about that, it might have been something ( Read more... )

( More things I thought about DH because you haven't had enough of everyone else's stupid opinions; you want mine, too )

So I wasn't even counting on having read this by now, but by Saturday night my sheep sensibilities kicked in and I read the chapter summaries of HPB on Sparknotes in order to avoid actually reading that one again. (I had forgotten what a horcrux was, SO FUCKING WHAT). I went into it with a sparkling, spoiler-free mind (amazing what not using the ( Read more... )

The Way of a Pilgrim and Pilgrim's Progress are not the same book. Let's just get that one out of the way right now. I meant to read the former after I found out it was NOT something J. D. Salinger had made up in Franny and Zooey. But when I went to the library to look it up, I became confused, and took home the latter book, never mind that the ( Read more... )