Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall.
* Post that sentence as a comment here too.

Oh don't be silly Sunny, Klaus said, we've seen you in your underwear hundreds of times.

Today I ( Read more... )

This is the dream Sophie told me about this morning ( Read more... )

Here’s why McCain won’t win ( Read more... )

Lady Vengeance sounds like a misguided product offering from Gillette. In reality it is a film from South Korean director Park Chan-Wook, and the third in a trilogy of what I understand are off-kilter revenge tragedies; this is the only one I've seen so far, but based on my viewing of this, the other two (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Old Boy) ( Read more... )

Sharla's been working like mad, two classes going simultaneously, as well as a full schedule of clients day and night ( Read more... )

I've been watching a fair amount of Samurai Champloo, an anime mashup of Yojimbo (with its Meiji-era ronin wandering from town to town cleaning out the bad guys) and hip hop. That's right, hip hop - it's not unusual in this series for a samurai to throw down a little old-school rap before he slices his kitana through an opponent. This is a series ( Read more... )

I've only listened to half of the new Dylan CD today - just what I could hear on the way to school & back. It's great, it's unbelievably affecting, and it's pretty in a way I haven't heard from Dylan since...ever.

There's a lot of talk in the reviews about how this makes up a trilogy with Time Out of Mind and Love & Theft, as if this is just a ( Read more... )

About 9 months ago, I sent my iBook to Apple because it stopped charging. They opened it up and found evidence of liquid damage ("We think it smells like coffee", the tech said). Not covered. They told me it was probably the logic board and quoted me a $800 charge to fix it - 80% of the price of a new one - so I had them send it back, and ( Read more... )

Zoe and I are watching To Catch a Thief. Right now I can get her to watch any movie with Cary Grant in it - we've already seen Charade, North by Northwest, The Philadelphia Story and Talk of the Town. Next will be Arsenic and Old Lace and His Girl Friday, then maybe My Favorite Wife? I think it's totally fitting that Cary Grant is Zoe's gateway ( Read more... )