Polar opposites...
Catalog Living is fantastic, so it's carries some weight when I say this is the BEST ONE EVER. Brilliant. I really want to know if the plate designer did this intentionally.

Genius Mary Poppins-esque Photographer Discovered Post Mortem
The video is 10 minutes long, but SO worth your time. This woman's photos are breathtaking.

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Certain life changes have REALLLLLLY slowed down my reading, and looking at 2010's list makes me want to cry. But I still feel like I have to keep up these lists. Check out 2010, and follow along here for 2011.

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the times in which screaming is acceptable:
I live for the days a gem like this from Molly shows up in my reader. Bonus: Molls and her closet crack me up.

Nashville Singer-Songwriter Griffin House Surprises Bookstore Shoppers With a ConcertThis describes my favorite thing about Griffin - the way he just captures an audience, even when people are ( Read more... )

I read Mystic River last weekend, which crushed my soul over and over. Really, it's a great book, but don't read it unless you want to feel like crying or vomiting over and over. (And I just got the movie from Netflix because I saw it years ago, but now I want to see it again after reading the book. And my soul will be crushed again. Why do I do ( Read more... )

How to Know When You've Found "The One"
The original post is cute, but apparently in my sleep (one afternoon?) I logged in as "Court" and posted a comment.

The NBA's Locker-Room Nerds
When sports and nerds collide, my heart flutters.

In the Name of Love(joy)Again with the sports and nerds; this time a writer, though I suspect he's probably a ( Read more... )

Once again, I forgot to start my book list until well into the new year. Check out 2009's list, and follow along here for 2010. (I feel like I didn't read as much good stuff in 2009. Too many that I didn't like but felt I had to finish.)

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The Most Magical Place in Upstate New York
Who wants to go with me?

Pittsburgh Penguins in Halloween Costumes When They Were KidsFor some reason, my favorite part of this is not any of the photos/costumes, but the way Max seems to be sort of whispering about it. Sid too, to a lesser extent. Was this a secret? Did they have to be quiet because ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm not sure if this will be funny, or even make sense, to anyone else. But my mom and I were just in absolute HYSTERICS over this on the phone, and I need to save it for my own memory.

Mom lent me her copy of The Blind Side. I started reading it on the T tonight. The first chapter is about Joe Thiesmann's injury. (Seriously, if you don' ( Read more... )

1. I can tell a movie's going to be bad when I click to add it to my queue, and then I click "not interested" on every single movie on page of recommendations that pops up. (Actually, I can also tell a movie's going to be bad when I HATED the book, but feel I need to see what they've done with the adaptation.) (In this case, Confessions of a ( Read more... )

I read Bonk by Mary Roach last weekend. I'd put it in third place of her books, after Stiff and Spook, but I did have a favorite part. The passage and its footnote both delighted me equally, so I'm re-creating them here, before I send the book back out into the world.

Dr. Ahmed Shafik wears three-piece suits with gold watch fobs and a diamond ( Read more... )