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I went to Wegmans last night with suomifrikki. First time in a month of doing real grocery shopping. I think I mostly could've held out a bit longer, but I was antsy for more Pam. We spent a long time looking for the "international foods" section. So long that we wrote a blues song about it. Then I forgot to get brown rice, among other things ( Read more... )

Media I like with the same names but different themes/sources:

• American Beauty the movie and American Beauty the Grateful Dead album


• Dazed and Confused the movie and Dazed and Confused the Led Zeppelin song


• Mezzanine the Massive Attack album and The Mezzanine the Nicholson Baker book.
  

All I have for now. Surely there must be more. Not on the list ( Read more... )

I've been thinking for a few years now that I'd like to collect the books that I enjoyed growing up (grade 2-5, give or take) into a nice set, for my own hypothetical kids or for friends' or just for my own having. A few:

Judy Blume - Fudge series (reaallly don't like the new covers)
Jamie Gilson - everything 1978-1989
Suzy Kline - Orp and the ( Read more... )

As is my annual custom, I've not really kept this LJ thing going while enjoying summer. I spend some time at home, mostly catching up with GReader and sleep and food and sometimes showering, but never really feeling like I have time to write. Right now I'm having a lazy morning and I plugged in my keyboard so I can actually type the letter s ( Read more... )

...or more like 10 minutes:

I got the song "Guys and Dolls" from the musical of the same name stuck in my head a while ago, like days or weeks, and I can't get it out. Around 3:40 I was on the way back from a brief walk to Meliora - a walk with no real purpose - when I had the craving to actually listen to it instead of just clawing at the ( Read more... )

A few weeks back I stumbled upon a phrase that will be the title of my first memoir: Hilarity & Poultry.

With that, I present to you a list of pairs, categorized by my feelings on them. Very late in the process did I discover Wikipedia's list of pairs. Drum roll please...

Like:Ben & Jerry ( Read more... )

The bones:
All this started for kaitl, whom I don't even know! Ah, strangers on the Internet, exchanging information. It was based on a discussion over in comments at jisalynn's entry from a few days ago. But this was far too big to post over there, and I also want it publicly archived in my journal. It's highly reminiscent of my "things to take to college" ( Read more... )

Three cheers for my_sihaya for hooking me up with A Matter Of Taste. Nothing better than indulging recreational academic interests...