...is going to get fresh-made sushi in a place with David Allen Coe and Ray Wylie Hubbard playing over the sound system.

The best part of A Dance With Dragons is that it was totally worth the wait. He can take 6 years on the next book, too, if it's this good.

Now on to the new Dresden Files book, Ghost Story...

Neptune completes it's first orbit of the sun (since being observed by humans) this week!

Discovered 165 years ago during the James K Polk administration (our 11th President), it is finally completing its first observed orbit.

We knew you could do it our pale blue friend!

Attention humans. You are no longer needed for much of anything

Last week police got a tip about 20 dead bodies, including children, in a Texas home. There was a brief, but big, to-do about it. Lots of media and a major police search of the property (including the local sheriff, the Texas Rangers, and the FBI). They found nothing. Now we hear that it was a psychic who provided the tip. Moreover, she won't be ( Read more... )

So, we're fixing our place up a bit to sell it. I had to have the chimney cleaned and a crack in the base of the firebox fixed. I called several local chimney sweeps and repair companies to get quotes on the work He came t. One never called me back, one did and made an appointment for an estimate and then never showed up, and the other was highly ( Read more... )

Hooray!

It's going to be a good night!

Kholrabi!


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I've been watching Top Chef and I'm expecting any day now to hear a sentence like this: "The winner of today's Swanson Quickfire Challenge will win Toyota immunity for this week's Bank One elimination round."

If ya got it, whore it, I guess.

My favorite part about the fact that the Kinect makes you the controller is that it also means it is the first video game system you could conceivably play with your cat or dog as it finally does away with the need for opposable thumbs all together ( Read more... )