"One advertiser staying in the game is Pepsi, which is now the official soft drink of hope...which is ironic, because if you read President Obama's biography you know he's a coke man."

HahahahahahahahaZING.

I'm actually in the middle of Dreams From My Father (finally, I think I had a copy at home in California for the past four years or something ( Read more... )

STEPHEN: But you're just going to get the nerd votes! You're going to get submissions for Doctor Who and Chewbacca!

[The Doctor/Harkness '08?!?!]

ETA: Also today at work, Chico Barque & Djavan's A Rosa came on. I was very confused, and then just accepted it for its awesomeness.

EATA: And during lunch I finished reading Patrick Süskind's ( Read more... )

I'm going to surprise everyone and talk about a British man. [Who is not Thom Yorke, David Tennant, James Norrington, or any of the other blokes from the UK I've been blabbing about lately. See, I told you it was a surprise ( Read more... )

1. There's a store called Helo in a mall in downtown Seattle. Can't remember the mall's name --it's the huge multilevel one with the AMC movie theatre and an Il Fornaio and a Barnes & Noble on the bottom level. In any case. Helo. A store called Helo. Am depressed that I didn't get to go into it ( Read more... )

This picture speaks for itself.

I considered fooling everyone and saying, "HOLY SHIT! Promo images from S2 BSG!" Or something similarly tricksy. But really, it speaks for itself. I love moby_journal for pointing it out.

There are a couple things I'd love explained to me. Those things being ( Read more... )

1. Ever since I finished Mostly Harmless last Tuesday morning (in my grand Douglas Adams read), I haven't been able to get really started with Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book, even though when I read The Eyre Affair two summers ago I could barely put it down. Something about the end of MH just broke me. I wasn't expecting the ending to be ( Read more... )

Back in rainy New York City. Yesterday was a surprisingly quick 6 hour flight followed by the most hellish time trying to get out of JFK, after which I got home at 11 PM -- two hours later than I should have. Bleaggh.

I just got back from the Starbucks on the corner of WS West and South, where I was FINALLY finishing Tamora Pierce's Trickster's ( Read more... )

("Oh Harold, no one could play him like you. No one's going to.")

Hello world, geeky revelation.

From Camus (yes, "L'etranger" ...er, "The Stranger" is Le Ultimate Accessorie for pretentious pseudo-existentialist wannabees ...but it's MINE, boah):

As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive ( Read more... )

hecatehatesthat, you'll probably want to take a look at this link.

Trickster's Choice, Daughter of the Lioness Book One

Eeep. This isn't fair. Now I'm going to have to read it!

And it's recc'd for ages 10-14. But...I have to know what happens to Alanna!

Alanna: The First Adventure came out in 1983. I didn't read it then but still, it's been a long time ( Read more... )

rashaka's post made me think about all of my book ships. Especially from when I was younger. And I may be completely wrong, but this was my first shippy moment.

From A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle:

"I wish I were a different person," Meg said shakily. "I hate myself ( Read more... )