I'm about halfway through "The Hunger Games ( Read more... )

One of Hartford's better cultural attractions is the Mark Twain House and Museum. Now, I'm usually not all that impressed by seeing a dead rich person's old house. Even if that old house belonged to America's best author, I still don't really care, so I never went to the Twain House ( Read more... )

Life's been pretty much just going recently ( Read more... )

Celebrity rant mashup, featuring: Christian Bale chewing out a lighting guy on "Terminator: Salvation"; Bill O'Reilly's "we'll do it live"; Lily Tomlin and David O. Russell's "I Heart Huckabees" hatefest; Alec Baldwin putting his foot in his daughter's ass; and ESPN's own Chris Berman:



And President Obama will curse you out.

Enjoy.

Cleaned the bathroom today when I got home from work. How clean? Hands-and-knees-scrubbing-gunk-out-of-the-corners clean. That may be today's greatest achievement, other than waking up ( Read more... )

I wish I had more to tell you about my life at the moment, but it's been pretty tame. A cycle of work (much easier now that championship week is over - working the actual tournament is much easier), home, sleep ( Read more... )

Another discussion was about print and books, and where books are going. After all, look Amazon Kindle, a wireless e-book. Something tells me this may be the Laserdisc of its time in the world of books. But hey, I could be wrong ( Read more... )

What, it's been six days already since my last post?

Last Saturday I did get together with varouna and Jeremy for a fun day out. We went to Northampton - just where I was the week before - since Jeremy wanted to visit the Raven Used Bookstore for some Christmas shopping. Northampton on a Saturday is busy, but the Saturday before Christmas added some ( Read more... )

Since I just can't bring myself to hit the gym, I guess I should post something ( Read more... )

I don't know what possessed me to go through the two boxes full of college books that I brought from my parents' house. I have two bookcases, and one is completely full while the other one had some room, but not enough room for what I have. I took out the shitload of VHS tapes I still own, and then started sifting through the boxes o' books ( Read more... )