Just a typical Saturday night, eating ribs, watching football, knitting, and reading.

They had a ridiculous deal on ribs at the store, so we decided to try making them ourselves for the first time. Nomnomnomnom.


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January:

1. Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
   
2. Great Short Works of Herman Melville by Herman Melville
   
3. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks
   
4. DMZ: War Powers by Brian Wood (author), Riccardo Burchielli (Illustrator), Kristian Donaldson (Illustrator), Nikki Cook (Illustrator ( Read more... )

Essay: There Will Be a QuizBy JOE QUEENAN, The New York Times, April 6, 2008 ( Read more... )

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Synecdoche, where a specific part of something is taken to refer to the whole, is usually understood as a specific kind of metonymy. Sometimes, however, people make an absolute distinction between a metonymy and a synecdoche, treating metonymy as different from rather than inclusive of synecdoche. There is a similar problem ( Read more... )

January:

1. Fables, Volume 5: The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham
   
2. Teenagers from Mars by Rick Spears and Rob G.
   
3. Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America by Judith A. Houck
   
4. House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live by Winifred Gallagher
   
5. How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by ( Read more... )

January:

1. That Yellow Bastard by Frank Miller
   
2. Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson
   
3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley
   
4. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
   
5. The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
   
6. Star Wars Tales, Vol. 1 by Dark Horse Comics (Editor)
   
7. Blankets by Craig Thompson
   
8. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
   
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I decided to start Robert Graves "Goodbye to All That" in honor of the start of war.
Graves was a poet, war hero, and anti-war protester (along with Siegfried Sassoon). He was a very angry man.

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