I went to see Stardust and one of the previews was for the travesty that will be the new movie based very loosely on Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising, which happens to be one of my favorite books. It is now called The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, because... well, I don't know why. I can't even begin to describe what an utter shitpile this looks ( Read more... )

I've always been a huge fan of Dick Francis and by that same token, interested in the horse-racing world. So it was with great sadness that I read that Barbaro had been put down. What a pity he didn't make it.

However, it was with even greater sadness that I read the following sentence in the article linked above:
Foaled and raised at Sanborn ( Read more... )

Waldo has peppered!

I'm so happy! They're so small and cute, these little green peppers. So adorable! And my potatoes are mighty. I don't think I've ever had potato plants this robust.

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I grew up reading a lot of Scandinavian children's books - a lot of Astrid Lindgren, Selma Lagerlof, Tove Jansson - but I couldn't say that I had read all of Lindgren's books. There are still some vast gaps in my Lindgren reading, which is why I picked up a copy of The Brothers Lionheart when I happened to be at the bookstore yesterday ( Read more... )

In a weird coincidence, I discovered Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair at baogirl & bugjism's house the same day that vaznetti had been writing about it in her LJ. I'm slowly working through a rather neglected reading list, and finished Eyre Affair this morning on the train.

Well. vaznetti had said that people either really take to the Fforde books and love them, or else loathe ( Read more... )

Ooh yeah. Seven dollars later, I have a "practical" handbag ("...A handbag?!") to take over all kinds of practical handbag duties from the evening bag pressed into service. Now I just have to stuff it full of my crap. That'll happen next year sometime, at this rate ( Read more... )

Some kind of -- demonstration -- has been going on near here since about 7 a.m. I can hear them shouting and cheering and they've been getting cars to honk. I don't know what the hell it's about, but if it continues into the afternoon, I'm sure I'll still not go over there to check it out.

Meanwhile, here is my book review for Sunshine, by Robin ( Read more... )

Cruel, morbid humor never goes out of style, and last night, I got a hankering to feast my eyes once more on the writing of Kevin Kelm. Such classics as "Horton Hires a Whore" and "Curious George and the High-Tension Power Line" must live on, passed down with love and care to all the little children ( Read more... )

I can't believe I've never read this book before.

...Wow.

All right, so it's been three days of unusual activity, in that, I've left the house every day. This is frightening and disturbing. I can't figure out if the 5-HTP really is what's making the difference, or if I've latched onto this as the excuse for somehow motivating myself or ( Read more... )