Dude, I was flipping the dial on my way home from the store tonight and I happened to catch ZZ Top's "Pearl Necklace" on 107.5. I'm frankly surprised they had the balls to play it, but I'm delighted because I loved that song in high school (when I didn't really know what it meant and I thought I did because I thought I was a worldly and ( Read more... )

I worked in Lawn & Garden today, manning a cash register, which is likely what I would be doing if I transferred back there permanently. At least I get to be in close proximity to the greenhouse and see the sun and feel the breeze, though. More perversely, it has bred in me a desire to farm. Seriously, the Burpee catalogue has turned into Produce ( Read more... )

Just got done with The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd the other day. I wasn't sure what to expect, but hey, it's Ireland, it's historical fiction, I had to read it. On the whole, I enjoyed it, though I had some nitpicks with the first part, set in the pre-Christian Iron Age ( Read more... )

First, a happy belated birthday to syrahsmile!

This is, like, a fabulous weekend. I've done nothing whatsoever except be unproductive. Oh, and I read. And I went to the Book Broker and bought an entire stack of YA Poo, because I've read all the Poo I already have. Apparently I hit the motherlode of Sweet Dreams and Merivale Mall books. Anyone who needs to ( Read more... )

I have the beginnings of a headache for the third night in a row ( Read more... )

There was a time when I used to have embarrassing celebrity crushes on dead Communists.

That time was, like, ten years ago, meaning that it is in the past, meaning that it is over, meaning that I am now officially too old to be thumbing through the books that date from my passionate obsession with Russian history (since cooled to mere interest) ( Read more... )

(with apologies to bratwurst.)

I think my new purpose in life, after the classics and the samurai and Terra Incognita and getting a job, is to somehow rent (because I'm not buying it) that classic of early '90s anti-drug propaganda, Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue!. Which I don't remember having seen the first time around ( Read more... )