Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 28th, 2008
weekend wrapup
it was a wild one, no doubt.
hodie-related drama friday night cut short plans for evening. made it out for shoe admiration and drinks with Lyza but no karaoke. sad.
on the whole, it might have been for the best, since i woke up in the wee hours for my race. it went really well, though it [...]
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
this weekend = hells yeah
i must say, spring was singularly uninspiring in the sense of having much going on. so far, summer has been making up for this in spades. awesome things i have going on this weekend:
acquisition of domain name, blog improvement plans, & shoe-admiration with Lyza
birthday celebration for friend Darrin including (but not limited to) brewfest, dinner, [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
The Dark Knight
i went to see this movie last night with some friends. it was an experience.
first let me say, i usually LOVE going to the theater. despite the skyrocketing ticket prices and nausea-inducing concessions, nothing else allows me to submerge into a movie like going to the theater. videos at home don’t have the same power. [...]
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
the rain before it falls
By Jonathan Coe
this book is one of the loveliest i have come across in a good long while. i mean this not only in the sense that it contains a moving sweet and poignant story, but in the physical manifestation of of its book-ness. i went on about this at length last week when i [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Tuesday Thingers: Recommendations
Tuesday Thingers
Today’s topic: Recommendations. Do you use LT’s recommendations feature? Have you found any good books by using it? Do you use the anti-recommendations, or the “special sauce” recommendations? How do you find out about books you want to read?
i will say, i wanted this to be a feature i would get a lot of [...]
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
i was horrified by my television this morning
whilie i admit, this is not a totally uncommon occurrence, this sent me into a particularly heated frenzy of loathing and terror.
if someone could see inside my darkest nightmares, this is what they might see:
Flesh-eating fish give pedicures
remember when i mentioned my fear of fish
well. it turns out IT IS HEREBY VINDICATED AND ETERNALLY JUSTIFIED. [...]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
happy weekend
oh, lordy sometimes you get a good one.
in honor of the impending departure of the aforementioned Leslie, we had a grand campout over the weekend. we arrived midday on saturday to a glorious sunshine day with panoramic views of Mt’s Adams and Hood. keg was tapped, guitars and harmonicas in tune, frisbee aloft. it was [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
bye bye leslie pie
my good friend leslie, her husband mikael, and their impending offspring are moving far away to the mitten state (ie Michigan) very soon indeed. it came about in a bit of a whirlwind, and i think i’m still adjusting to the idea that they’re really leaving. there are many things about this that make me [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
booklust
i have it. bad.
this was reinforced last night when i picked up my latest random acquisition from the library; a book called The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe. this book is not only enjoyable to read, with a breathtakingly lovely premise and resonant singing prose, but it is a pleasure to touch and [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
ignoring the universal nudge
i’m pretty famous for this. there’s the truth i know and then the truth i choose to attend to because it’s the truth i would prefer. it doesn’t help when the nudging seems to come from multiple directions and isn’t consistent. last week all was nine of cups and shiny. today its ace of [...]