From ms_ntropy"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed ( Read more... )

You should watch Friday Night Lights for several reasons, only one of which is Tim Riggins. Yow ( Read more... )

Someone stole a book about wedding flowers out of my suitcase! Unbelievable and bizarre.

PS - And they stole my box of Ziploc baggies.

Responses to today's news headlines before a significant post can be constructed:

For God's sake, leave them alone.

Um...

And:
I will give someone a whole bouquet of flowers for tickets to this!!!

My favorite part: Kevin, you don't know what you're talking about. Oh to be Chris Matthews for that one moment.

So you know how the garbage truck wakes me up every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 6:37 AM with its reversing noise? I've tried complaining to 311 and to God knows how many agencies, but nothing has worked. They claim there's nothing they can do about the reversing noise and that they can't shut it off. I have tried various noise machines and ( Read more... )

A Fraggle Rock movie! With real puppets!

Every year, as we drive up to visit my extended family in Kansas, we drive through the sad town of Picher, Oklahoma. The town has been falling apart for a long, long time. Houses were already collapsing in on themselves. What I remember most is a Dairy Queen-like building called The Gorilla Cage. I guess the Gorilla was the Picher high school ( Read more... )

Oh my gosh: this Young Me Now Me project is so cute!

This makes me want to cross-stitch or needlepoint or whatever. Found via Creature Comforts in the left hand links.