Five college juniors sharing a house in Madison, Wisconsin get very drunk one spring evening. The next morning, they wake up with superpowers.

And that's all I really feel comfortable saying about this book, except for this: If you're reading my LJ, then you will almost certainly enjoy this book. Highly recommended.

( Structure? I hardly know 'er! )

We know that we're going to run out of easy-to-access oil and coal at some point relatively soon -- even the most conservative estimates I've seen say that within a century, the easy stuff will be gone. There are objections to any specific alternative technology that make it more expensive and less useful than fossil fuels, true, but that (to me) ( Read more... )

Sometimes, it's the simple meals that are the best. In this case, had some leftovers to deal with (including a truly frightening quantity of shrimp from my parents' party last weekend), so I whipped up a shrimp salad, dressed with peppercorn ranch [1], a couple of generous spoonfuls of sweet pickle relish, several good shakes of lemon pepper, and ( Read more... )

RIP Richard Wright, 65.

"You run and you run to catch up with the Sun, but it's sinking..."

to my parents, on their 40th wedding anniversary.

"Falling water art?" I hear you cry. Yeah, go take a look.

news from the art world

Naxos is, over the course of this year (the centennial of Anderson's birth), releasing a five-CD set of his complete orchestral works. Some have never been recorded. Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Orchestra on all five discs. The first three are already out, with the final two coming out this fall and a boxed set in November ( Read more... )

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