I think I've mentioned in here a few times that one of my very favourite authors is Stephen King - I also really like him as a guy, and as an essayist and pop commentator. He's just all round awesome.

He just got more awesome. YES, The King just publically said what so many of us already knew - Stephenie Meyer CAN'T WRITE. She CAN'T, you guys. She's ( Read more... )

24th Feb. 24TH FEB. 24TH FEB.

I go on leave for 15 beautiful days on the 24th of Feb. That's 16 working days away! 16! I can handle 16 more days! I CAN.

We have a couple hundred copies of New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn sitting behind our counter with little customer order slips stuck in them. I want to physically STRIKE every single teenage girl ( Read more... )

OOOOOoooOOoOOOOooooo!! Pearl Jam are remastering and remixing 'Ten', which is, like, one of my favourite albums EVER. When I was 15 I listened to that, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by the Pumpkins, Nevermind by Nirvana and Live Through This by Hole, like nonstop. Ocassionally I'd put on some Veruca Salt to mix things up a little. BUT. I ( Read more... )

A drive by post to dump this:


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You guys! Today I did two things I've never done before - I made jam and I read a crime novel. It was exciting! Although not ENTIRELY successful.

I don't really read crime, because...I don't know. It's not that it bores me. I uh...just never have. I always bypass the crime section at work. Reading a crime novel was sort of like a silly, indulgent ( Read more... )

Who woulda thought that Katy Perry would be the one to drag me back to the internet? This is remarkably endearing and hilarious. Also, for the first time I'm interested in Gabe Sapporta and those whacky Gym Class Heroes guys. Aww. Bless.

What have I been doing for three weeks? Working, reading (Breaking Dawn kinda blew; Anne Rice is soothing the ( Read more... )

I read the first two books in the Stephanie Meyer trilogy, and the only reason I haven't read the third yet is because yesterday the new Pratchett came out in hard cover and I went insane and jumped around the store and bought it and loved it and squeezed it and named it George. Uh. SO EXCITED ABOUT NEW PRATCHETT! I wasn't expecting it until ( Read more... )