I have a working car again—used, but better than the car I had. The poor old Toyota Corolla was 15 years old. The radio no longer worked. The air conditioning was shot. The heater had died. Some of the vents wouldn’t close. The electronics were persnickety. The dash and the windshield were cracked in two places. The paint was rusted. And vomit. I’m sure it never completely cleaned out. Almost any car would be better than that, and the one…
I’m back in town and very slowly catching up on my e-mail and projects. I visited a very beautiful place, one which has made me seriously rethink where I’d like to spend the rest of my life. And I have photos to share! So there. In other news, it’s election day. Again. California has had an election every year for the last three years, and darn if I’m not sick of it. I’d actually vote today, but I just got…
List of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you’ve read part of. Read more. Convince others to read some. #1 The Bible #2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain #3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes #4 The Koran #5 Arabian Nights (just got this as a gift from H.E.) #6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain #7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift #8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer #9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne…
H.E. is Irish, and because 2005 has been such a difficult year for him, I’ve learned a very harsh lesson about the difference between the luck of the Irish and Irish luck. Now, the two may sound the same, but they’re not. Absolutely not. The luck of the Irish is Ned Divine finding out that he has won the lottery. Irish luck is Ned Divine dying of shock right after winning the lottery. I saw Dodgeball on TV over the…
This was in my Amazon recommended list. I understand why—it’s because of the books I’ve bought—but damn, if I had that kind of money to throw around or bookshelf space to fill, then yeah, I might actually consider it. As it is, I’ve got plenty of books on my TBR (To Be Read) pile. The tiny few of the most recently acquired in that very huge pile is a couple of Thomas Hardy books and a three-volume set of The…