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We had a good weekend, just the two of us. This was our first weekend alone without overwhelming family drama, and we did our best to take full advantage:

We woke up early (but not too early) on Saturday. I finished the book I was reading and progressed to the next one. Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy is bloody excellent, by the way, and I highly ( Read more... )

For those of you who care and haven't heard, Wheel of Time author Robert Jordan (nee James Oliver Rigney) died last night ( Read more... )

I've been reading What The Dormouse Said for the past month or so (I'm not a slow reader normally, but work/moving/etc has conspired to lend me maybe a half hour of reading time before bed ( Read more... )

It has been awhile since we read consistently, and so it was a joy to rediscover our love of reading on our Asia trip. I just finished reading A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan, and just recently picked up William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury. Whoof. This is a dense, complex novel, and while I'm enjoying it, I think it will take at least ( Read more... )

Oh dear, sweet Jesus, is this music to my eyes ( Read more... )

I was paging through Dooce's archives recently, and among other things (including the revelation that the area she used to live in LA is the same one where Sce's current apartment is, the one that we'd like to stay in if we can afford it), I found this awesome meme-like challenge she put to her readers some years back:

"In its former incarnation ( Read more... )

Back! The weekend was pretty cool. I went up to LA to see my sweetie and my (step)brother David, who was visiting from Chicago. We had a lovely Korean BBQ dinner and a few drinks on Saturday, and then we went to see this awesome exhibit at the Santa Monica pier on Sunday ( Read more... )

from uberspooky1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )

While I enjoyed a lovely walk to work via Third Avenue this morning, my enjoyment was nipped in the bud by a truly disgusting sight. Some hate-ridden bigoted "christian" has a shitty 70's era Dodge Ram camper emblazoned with signboards (the signs cover 100% of the shitty camper's surface area) that say, in a nutshell, "The presence of gays in ( Read more... )