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Ye Olde Booke Haule
Ye Olde Booke Haule, originally uploaded by Jaquandor. The other day was the quarterly Used Book Sale at the local library, which I honored as I usually do by filling a box with books for about $15. I’m telling you, … Continue reading
100 Characters
Roger points out that Entertainment Weekly did another of their “list” things, this time the “100 Greatest Characters of the last 20 years”. I don’t much like EW, but their lists are usually good for a blog post or two, … Continue reading
Stars, ships, and ferrets in pants
Time to catch up on some recent reading! :: Sports From Hell: My Search for the World’s Dumbest Competition by Rick Reilly is a fun piece of sportswriting in which Reilly travels the world in search of really bizarre sports. … Continue reading
Random Notes from Home
Daily life stuff…. :: I made pizza for dinner last night. Nothing fancy, just cheese, pepperoni, and sausage, but I made my crust and my sauce from scratch, so that’s something. It turned out really well, I thought. There’s something … Continue reading
Hate mail! I get hate mail!
I don’t get nasty e-mails all that often, so when I do, it’s kind of fun, in a bizarre sort of way. Especially when the mail is so staggeringly illiterate as this one. Here it is: YOUR A STUPID BITCH!It’s … Continue reading
Howl! Howl! Howl!
I’ve been somewhat disappointed with the last few of Christopher Moore’s novels that I’ve read. He has a new one either out or on the way very soon, which completes the “Vampire” trilogy begun in Bloodsucking Fiends and continued in … Continue reading
May he rule a thousand years
My review of Under Heaven is now available at GMR. For non-spoiler thoughts, feel free to read the review. I do have some thoughts on the book that I left out because they were spoilerish, so I’ll put those here, … Continue reading
Break time!
My Facebook friends know that on Wednesdays, I like to celebrate “Hump Day”, past the midpoint of which the week is all downhill, with the indulgence of a donut or two at my mid-morning break. Above you see two of … Continue reading
Screws fall out all the time, the world’s an imperfect place
Thumbing through the new nonfiction books at the Library two weeks ago, I happened upon an interesting looking volume called You Couldn’t Ignore Me if You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation, by Susannah … Continue reading
The Colors of Earth, Water, and Heaven
I recently found a graphic novel on the shelves at the library called The Color of Earth. It turned out to be the first book in a trilogy (the other volumes being The Color of Water and The Color of … Continue reading