Prepare yourselves for a Fashion Police rant. Yes, yes, I know, ironic coming from me. But while I'm not a maven, I still have at least a rudimentary sense of style. And what I want to know is, what gorram idiot decided that THESE monstrosities are back in style? Capris, fine. But these are culottes, Macy's and other retailers, and you aren't ( Read more... )

Oh, I can't even tell you how much I want one of these lovely Sony Readers. The size is finally right (bigger than the PDA; smaller than the Notebook), and if the display works as advertised for text crispness, then I'm almost sold ( Read more... )

Particularly for darinbradley, roxana, imahobbit2, mortalwombat731, lachrymosa, andlizzy2150, but I know there are more horror fans out there.

I'm very excited that we are finally getting a U.S. DVD release of one of my favorite Drac adaptations, Count Dracula. Now mind you, this is not any one of the Hammer versions. But it has Christopher Lee. And Klaus Kinski! And both Mina and Lucy!

Very happy-

I just bought myself a CueCat, and am inordinately pleased with myself. Yet another way of kidding myself that my LibraryThing cataloging project will be accomplished some day soon. Some of you may remember that I had big plans for it, LAST holiday season. Sure, I did a lot, but what actually happened was that the B.H. got all fired up about ( Read more... )

Many thanks to friend Turqois for alerting me to this site, Oxfam America Unwrapped. Some of you will be getting livestock for Christmas this year--I trust that's okay. I am almost dismayed to see how reasonably-priced a lot of this stuff is. "Dismayed" in that "Why haven't I done this before?" kind of way. I do want to see if it's possible to ( Read more... )

I have just lost my eBay virginity.

That's really all I have to say.