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Auld Acquaintance meme
Borrowed from chaduMake a post to your Live Journal, blog, MySpace, Facebook, or whatever, with a list of the names of old friends that you haven't seen in a long time, and would love to get in touch with again. Maybe one of them will Google their name and your post will turn up. Maybe someone on your friends list knows them and can pass the word along ( Read more... ) -
A Long Line of Dead Men (and Women)
I recently re-acquired the Genealogy Bug, and have been spending rather more time than my wife would prefer at trying to trace out a first rough guess at my post-immigrant ancestry. The results have been interesting, at least to me.
I seem to be very, very American. So far, the most recent immigrant ancestor I've been able to find is a great- ( Read more... ) -
I Can Name That Tune in One Letter (Meme)
ctate gave me the letter Y and memed me to name my favorite ten songs beginning with that letter. Y, oh y, did it have to be y.
The problem with Y is not that there aren't enough songs, but that there are so very many very bad songs. Bad in every way that songs can be bad ( Read more... ) -
A Midsummer Night's Screwball Comedy
As an early Christmas gift, my parents gave us tickets to the Folger Shakespeare Theater production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It was wholly unlike what I was expecting (whatever that was), and a lot of fun. The director's alleged inspiration was seeing a really bad performance of AMSND in the middle of a Busby Berkeley film festival, and ( Read more... ) -
Valabar's
We have tangible information! Steven Brust responded to a question I asked in his LJ, as follows:
od_mindI recently had the very great pleasure of visiting Hungary, and the even greater pleasure of eating at a famous Budapest restaurant that had me thinking about Valabar's. Is Valabar's modeled on some particular restaurant you've been to, or is it more ( Read more... ) -
Ha! Vlad meets Meyer
Steven Brust recently posted on his LJ that he's been enjoying re-reading the Travis McGee books of John D. MacDonald after a long hiatus. In one of his responses to comments, he wrote ( Read more... ) -
That SFBC list thing
SFBC List of the 50 "most important" works of SF in the last (mumble) years.
I've bolded the ones I've read, italicized the ones I started and never finished, underlined the ones I've loved, and done a strike through on the ones I've read and hated.
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Philosophistry
A rather amusing philosophy quiz.
(Actually, I was annoyed by the lack of a coherent alternative to choose in the first ethics question. I can believe that real moral choices exist, without believing that lying is always wrong no matter what...)
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I am not making this up
A sentence seen in a current news story:
"The listing was removed from eBay on Oct. 11 because it violated a policy against selling human remains."
Full story here.
