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What I'm Reading Right Now...

Dude, bigger problem: I was going through Volume 2 last night, and I noticed that I'd used an inferior notebook. The pages are crisping up and destroying the writing! Volume 1 is fine, a good strong notebook, but I'm reevaluating Vol 3 for archive potential (it's only like 20 pages so far so no biggie to copy) but sort of freaking out about Volume 2. Please advise.

12/12/2006 View
Recently Read - 2006

"At the stroke of eleven on a cool April night, a woman named Joey Perrone went overboard from a luxury deck of the cruise liner M V Sun Duchess. Plunging toward the dark Atlantic, Joey was too dumbfounded to panic.
I married an asshole, she thought, knifing headfirst into the waves." --Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen

12/11/2006 View
What I'm Reading Right Now...

And yet so far none of the Hogfather quotes you've posted are the ones in my quote journal.

Strange, that.

12/11/2006 View
What I'm Reading Right Now...

Although there's something to be said for "A Holiday for Murder" by Agatha Christie if you REALLY want to get into the Christmas spirit.

What?

12/11/2006 View
What I'm Reading Right Now...

I'll have to dig out that volume.

Yes, the quotes journals now come in volumes. I don't have a problem.

I have a problem remembering which volume they're in, but apart from that I'm doing well.

12/11/2006 View
Recently Read - 2006

You have so much reading to do.

12/11/2006 View
Weird and Original Names for College Mascots

Also not a college: The Live Oak Mighty Fighting Acorns.

Like high school needed an additional reason to suck. Go Acorns.

Also, UCSB's mascot is spelled Gaucho, and only narrowly beats out UC Irvine (Anteaters) and UC Riverside (Highlanders) for weirdness value. Especially that last one. Have you ever been to UC Riverside? Nothing about it screams Highlander! And you'd think it would encourage all the students to hack each others' heads off. There can be only one!

Heh.

12/4/2006 View
Quotes from Movies I Saw in 2006

It was certainly better than Crocodile (2000). Oh my stars that sucked.

12/2/2006 View
Quotes from Movies I Saw in 2006

I thought the movie was okay and completely gross in a fun kind of way. Thoughts?

12/2/2006 View
Librarian's Picks

The things is, thrift stores and other associated 3-books-for-a-quarter places keep tossing Texas-themed boddice rippers at me. Not to mention Justin's Bride. You have no idea the amount of self-restraint it takes to be me.

11/20/2006 View
Featuring a character with a glass eye (*rockrock*)

Excellent! I knew my listology peeps wouldn't let me down!

11/20/2006 View
Librarian's Picks

I just have to disagree here. Generally, a librarian can point you towards books that a majority of people would classify as "good", but that's the same majority of people who liked Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, The Da Vinci Code, and John Grisham.

OTOH, librarians are in a unique position to point you in the direction of books you will find "good" if they have enough familiarity with your reading tastes to know what is good for you. Or if they're certain librarians who happen to be monk--

*BANG*

11/17/2006 View
The BBC's 50 Things To Eat Before You Die

It was the haggis, wasn't it?

11/17/2006 View
The BBC's 50 Things To Eat Before You Die

You realize I can totally help you with those stars, right? Just call me Beatrice...

11/16/2006 View
Treasures Unearthed In The Moving Process

Baby steps.

11/6/2006 View