There are some things heard in a brick and mortar bookseller that won't be spoken anywhere else. Allegedly, these requests are the real deal. If not, I blame my source.

Can you tell me who wrote Shakespeare?

I'm looking for a book but I only know the title, not the author. it's called "Dante's Inferno."

I definitely don't want non-fiction. I ( Read more... )

This is almost treacly, but the kits are just too cute and the shiba inu adoptive mom is a doll.
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a big, stupid hurricane tropical storm. Or something.

I officially dislike all journalists. News, weather, sports, it's all the same. It must be a CRISIS or it isn't worthy of discussion. Especially the endless, moronic kind that keeps the folk in makeup in front of the cameras ( Read more... )

Well, I’ve said it before. Bringing the capital city of the most powerful nation on earth to its knees is a piece of cake. All it takes is a nut on the Wilson Bridge with a gun to his head (JUST LET HIM DO IT!) or an earthquake of moderate magnitude. There was virtually no damage to anything anywhere, but don’t think that’ll stop our intrepid ( Read more... )

Gakked from darkspires.


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Then I take a deep breath and get over it.

Second time in as many days. Three hours yesterday after a thunderstorm blew through. Today, looks like a drunkie knocked down a transformer in the next neighborhood. Been in the dark for over two hours and not so much as a flicker. Just playing vids and watching my battery die. This isn't the weekend I'd planned ( Read more... )

I spent so much time in the saddle this weekend I missed meals. The rain was no deterrent, either. It's green here. Really green and hilly and full of twisty asphalt ( Read more... )

Disappearing friends, disappearing comments, unavailability, sluggishness, and a general sense that maybe there should be a way to isolate communities that are under attack rather than let the bad guys run rampant without so much as a partition to slow them down ( Read more... )

Once upon a time in Olde Towne Alexandria...( Read more... )