Man, I know. Two years without an update. But lately I've felt the need to say some things in a longer format than Facebook or twitter or G+ affords me. With my website still experiencing technical difficulties, I've decided to put some of these thoughts here.

I'm currently reading Underground, a limited-series comic by Jeff Parker and Steve ( Read more... )

I gotta tell ya: picking favorites this year was rough! I read too many good books, is what.

( Fiction )

I made a New Year's resolution at Samhain, as is my wont, and it's a weird'un.

I hereby resolve to give up on more books.

I give books a long probationary period, no matter how little I'm enjoying them, out of fear that the next page starts the "really good part". By the time I concede that there is no "really good part", my innate stubbornness ( Read more... )

I just finished Gail Carriger's Soulless, the first book in the Parasol Protectorate series. It's not the most amazing or important book I'll read in my lifetime, but it's a lot of fun, and the main character, Alexia Tarabotti, is quite memorable.

And the cover bugs the crap out of me.

Y'all know I'm no "fat apologist". I do, however, like to ( Read more... )

Books what I read in 2010.

( Fiction )

As the 2010 session was wrapping up, I joked to leorathesane that, if I were staying at the Revisor's, one of my new goals in life would be to read at least one book that CEL (one of our attorneys) hadn't read. It's a tall order.

Today, on my first day back, CEL welcomed me back and asked what I was reading. Why, thank you for asking; it's Bruce Campbell's ( Read more... )

Thanks for the head's up, blue_sky_48220. I quite like my result.


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( I was *so* close to my goal of 48 books read in 2009! )

I am honored to count among my friends here in lj land many creative types. Not just the "usual" creative types of artists and performers (though you are legion) but a lot of general creative thinkers and problem solvers, who bring fresh approaches to parenting, home maintenance, and even desk jobs. Thank you ( Read more... )

I so enjoy being whimmy with my wife. Last night, at her suggestion, we bopped over to the MIA for their "Third Thursday" event, where there is music, mingling, and free art. Of course the MIA itself is always free, but on the third Thursday of every month they open things up, usually with some sort of theme, and even their featured pay exhibit is ( Read more... )