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Things about which I educated myself this weekend:

• The Providence College men's basketball coaching line, producing coaches I loathe since Michael Jordan was in college!
  
• Mike Montgomery, former Stanford and Golden State coach.
  
• the 1993 UC-Santa Clara men's basketball team, a team I think fondly of as "that team full of surfers with hairs in their ( Read more... )

At some point this fall, I picked up -- from Orson Swindle at Every Day Should Be Saturday, I believe -- the excellent phrase "sack of crazy weasels". As in, "Houston Nutt packed up his family and his sack of crazy weasels and moved them down to Oxford this weekend." Sack of crazy weasels! You guys, I love this phrase a lot. I want to describe ( Read more... )

I posted fic yesterday: Ever Notice How Drinking's Like War (MCR, Bob/Frank/Gerard, R).

And now: let's play a game!

And by a game I mean recommend some books to me, because I have actually, finally managed to read (most of) my way through my two-page-long list of things to read. ( more about book recommendations; recommendations for me! for you! for other people!; including a list of stuff i'm looking for in a book, cut mostly for length, then made irrelevant by this immense cut-tag )

Today's haul from the librar(ies), both CH Public and Carolina:


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Today I am listening to all of my Mountain Goats in chronological order (it is an experiment into understanding the inner workings of John Darnielle's neuroses and lo-fi recording habits!) and eating brownies and reading Assassination Vacation and backing all my music up to the external again and working on compiling the sportsbackinsn prompts list, and later I ( Read more... )

Since the mid-nineties, Justin has been saying, ironically or not, that this is how your first entry of the new year should always be, and so it is.

1. tales of new year's festivities
   
   shep. and t. and AND eleveninches (BECAUSE I AM A BAD PERSON AND DELETED ERN FROM THIS POST WHILE I WAS DRUNK :() quicknow and darastar and officerrando and shep.'s coworkers The HP and A. and I all lounged ( Read more... )

1. Photos from the week at the beach are here. There's pretty much nowhere in the world I love as much as I love my parents' time share in southern North Carolina, and I think the photos show that. (I'm also thrilled that I got the sunrise pictures of the Sunset Beach pontoon bridge, even if my left sneaker was sacrificed to the muddy god of ( Read more... )

Bartlet: Stuffing should be stuffed inside the turkey, am I correct?
Operator: It can also be baked in a casserole dish.
Bartlet: Well, then we'd have to call it something else, wouldn't we?
Operator: I suppose.
Bartlet: If I cook it inside the turkey, is there a chance I could kill my guests? I'm not saying that's necessarily a deal-breaker.
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i don't usually post full albums, but i had these uploaded for other people, so: ( three albums, variable genres )