Everything below is totally free, totally already read by yours truly, and totally worth reading yourself. If you don't live in the Boston area, I only ask that you cover the cost of shipping. I would also be up for a swap if you have an interesting book that you're ready to part with.

David Kushner, Masters of Doom - NON-FICTION (history of id ( Read more... )

Snatched from locke61dv's journal:

"The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up."

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I'm compiling a list of Christmas songs that don't (completely) suck, possibly for a mix CD. Here's what I've unearthed so far:

The Pogues - "Fairytale of New York"
The Waitresses - "Christmas Wrapping"
Angry Johnny and The Killbillies - "6 Bullets for Christmas"
Ringo Starr - "Come On Christmas, Come On Christmas"
AC/DC - "Mistress For Christmas ( Read more... )

( A little guessing game yanked from Kotoriky's journal. Warning: extreme geekery within. )

This has been around forever, I know, but I never took it until now. I'm rather surprised I got Level 7, though. I've never attempted suicide and I can probably count the number of fights I've been in on one hand. But if a violent addiction to fluffernutters merits being boiled for eternity in a river of blood, then, well ... guilty as charged ( Read more... )

My entry for locke61dv's winter album cover contest:


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Last week I reactivated my paid account to ... what end, exactly? I immediately changed the journal's appearance to something that didn't look like a repository for Peter Murphy lyrics. My bio and interests also got an overhaul, and the Freud jokes desperately needed purging ( Read more... )

Also Job. Or at least it feels like it today ( Read more... )

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