(no subject)
OMG obama_daily I LOVE YOU!
Also, apparently I was wrong yesterday when I said that Michelle Obama hugged Queen Elizabeth because it was the other way around. She was so overcome by the First Lady's awesome that she couldn't help herself. OMG OBAMAS FTW!!!!
Show in only a couple hours ... can't focus on anything work-like ... feel a ramble coming on ...
Thanks to the Beauty of Netflix I've started watching The Wire and am happy to report, two discs into season one, that it's more than living up to all of the great things I've heard about it. Seriously excellent stuff. At the moment I am most fond of Kima Greggs and Lester Freamon. Oh, and Bubbles. Though I'm really kind of fond of every character they've introduced.
So, yeah, I'm totally looking forward to getting my hand on the next disc. come on Netflix, yeah, come on baby, gimme the good stuff.
Have been haphazardly working my way back through a lot of the childrens' and YA lit that I read back in the day. I'm happy to report that Diane Duane's Young Wizards series holds up extremely well after all these years though Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles does not. I've only made it about two or three chapters into The Book of Three and am already having severe Tolkien derivative pains. I don't think Alexander was actually copying Tolkien, they simply take a lot of their underpining legend from the same source. And Tolkien does it better.
Of course, my tolerance for High Fantasy has been greatly reduced over the years, so I'm sure that has something to do with it. I should try and dig up Alexander's Westmarch series and see how those fare. I remember enjoying them quite a bit.
I'd heard that the World War Z audiobook was fantastic and was thinking about downloading it only to find out that they recorded an abridged version. *sighs* I just don't think I can spend $20+ on it and not get the whole thing. I did download METAtropolis because it was free and it looks like some primo post-apocalyptic crack. Plus it's nominated for a Hugo. And Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani, and Kandyse McClure have parts. The only downside is that Elizabeth Bear (of RaceFail) is one of the authors. But since it was free I can kind of justify it to myself. Kind of.
All right, all right. I'm sure there's something else I can find to do instead of clogging up anymore of your f-list's. I do have more knitting to do ...
Also, apparently I was wrong yesterday when I said that Michelle Obama hugged Queen Elizabeth because it was the other way around. She was so overcome by the First Lady's awesome that she couldn't help herself. OMG OBAMAS FTW!!!!
Show in only a couple hours ... can't focus on anything work-like ... feel a ramble coming on ...
Thanks to the Beauty of Netflix I've started watching The Wire and am happy to report, two discs into season one, that it's more than living up to all of the great things I've heard about it. Seriously excellent stuff. At the moment I am most fond of Kima Greggs and Lester Freamon. Oh, and Bubbles. Though I'm really kind of fond of every character they've introduced.
So, yeah, I'm totally looking forward to getting my hand on the next disc. come on Netflix, yeah, come on baby, gimme the good stuff.
Have been haphazardly working my way back through a lot of the childrens' and YA lit that I read back in the day. I'm happy to report that Diane Duane's Young Wizards series holds up extremely well after all these years though Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles does not. I've only made it about two or three chapters into The Book of Three and am already having severe Tolkien derivative pains. I don't think Alexander was actually copying Tolkien, they simply take a lot of their underpining legend from the same source. And Tolkien does it better.
Of course, my tolerance for High Fantasy has been greatly reduced over the years, so I'm sure that has something to do with it. I should try and dig up Alexander's Westmarch series and see how those fare. I remember enjoying them quite a bit.
I'd heard that the World War Z audiobook was fantastic and was thinking about downloading it only to find out that they recorded an abridged version. *sighs* I just don't think I can spend $20+ on it and not get the whole thing. I did download METAtropolis because it was free and it looks like some primo post-apocalyptic crack. Plus it's nominated for a Hugo. And Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani, and Kandyse McClure have parts. The only downside is that Elizabeth Bear (of RaceFail) is one of the authors. But since it was free I can kind of justify it to myself. Kind of.
All right, all right. I'm sure there's something else I can find to do instead of clogging up anymore of your f-list's. I do have more knitting to do ...