Someone sent me this in an email and it made me laugh. It's not new, but it's still worth sharing ( Read more... )

I've had a couple of interesting Peter Gabriel moments recently. A while back I picked up Hit which is a wonderful two-disc collection of his work, studio and live. The jacket features pics of him through the years and I was taken aback that he's aged, since in my head he continued to look as he did during the So/Us era. I will say he has the ( Read more... )

An old friend of mine is getting married this weekend, again. He was married once, but it was a starter-marriage and it left a sufficiently bad taste in his mouth that he swore he'd never wed again. Alas ( Read more... )

I have a new cell phone. Part of owning a new cellphone is programming the phone numbers into the phonebook (now called a Contact list). As a part of the elaborate denial and avoidance dance I've been performing since Amy was taken from us, I had never taken her number out of the old phone. I'm not actually demented enough to program her number ( Read more... )

My wife, who is very smart, has a limited capacity to read about things which don't interest her. (It should be noted that I imagine this is true for most people, myself included) We were talking about news of the continuing conflict in the Middle East (BTW who came up with the term "Middle East?" Was it the Brits?) and she told me "You know, I ( Read more... )

Ok, so ross_winn hipped me to it, and I've been goofing off on Shelfari all day. Basically it's a way of showing off how many books you've read, or want to read, or just think are keen. My "shelf" is here.

( more than meets the eye )

Who knew they knew how to have fun?

Don't look at my friends page unless you're already seen all the Harry Potter spoilers (true or otherwise) or unless you don't care about seeing them. Some jackass posted them, without a cut, to a community, which to me smacks of a particular kind of assholery.

"I no longer get very wrought up over the liminals, myself, except to be annoyed by people who seem to assume that feature films are the ultimate stage of novelistic creation, thereby relegating the book to the status of dull gray chrysalis."

Taken from here.