Just started reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Excellent so far. It's a rather-hyped mystery novel whose first-person protagonist is a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome (I think). …
"I am such a problem solver." (in the tone of "My house is such a mess," or any sentence including the phrase "thunder thighs")
I'm only one or two degrees away from jwz via Joe. His LiveJournal is uniquely readable, and especially caught my eye when a documentary/rant on CSS spawned a comment with the following jollities: This is …
Macaulay's celebrated quote (and related present-day remarks): "I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a …
I saw a guide to California independent bookstores for $1.98. Seems like quite a deal. More bargain book highlights coming, as well as reviews of Douglas Coupland's upcoming Hey Nostradamus! and Kavita Daswani's upcoming For …
Ebert says a bloggy thing in a 1998 review of a half-star flick: "The plot involves ... excuse me for a moment, while I laugh uncontrollably at having written the words 'the plot involves.' I'm …
I'm not sure what's more ominous, that I've dreamt of Osama bin Laden at least twice (silly, scary) or that I've dreamt of Roger Ebert at least twice (example).
In the mode of my Google party game, I learn other fortune cookie suffixes.
You, meaning I, always hear about the Ruby Ridge fiasco in the same breath as Waco, so I had no idea of the lopsided, breathtaking horror of the thing. An article from a pretty reliable …
When I completely forgot two thirds of my material on Tuesday, I felt much as Skot did: "I mentally pictured the skipped-over lines dying like slugs on a salt lick, and they screamed, 'Why didn't …
