Miscellanea

1.) I am really liking this "post an unretouched photo of yourself" meme thing; it's v. cool to get to put faces with the usernames.

2.) Stereogum presents us with an MP3 of a new Lambchop tune, "National Talk Like a Pirate Day".

3.) There is nothing in the world quite like being woken up by the sound of your darling cat horking on your warm fleece blankie, which you happen to be sleeping under at the time. =/ At least it wasn't my pillow? Please tell me that today is only going to get better from here.

4.) Making notes on the recent reading so I can take stuff back to the library; presented in order of how likely they were to keep me up until 3 AM reading (Curse you, Scalzi!):

38. Old Man's War, John Scalzi


39. The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi


40. Red Seas Under Red Skies, Scott Lynch


41. Set in Darkness, Ian Rankin


42. The Sun Over Breda, Arturo Perez-Reverte (chadu, there's a new one out as of about a month ago: The King's Gold.)


43. Tigerheart, Peter David


44. Agyar, Steven Brust


45. The Magical Worlds of Philip Pullman, David Colbert

More pre-0930 weirdness

[heading west on 66, flipping through XM channels] "Huh, someone covered 'Ordinary World' in Italian? Cool. Waitaminnit, is that PAVAROTTI?" *checks the receiver display* "Why yes, yes it is. Pavarotti and Simon Le Bon. Buh?"


Oh, and this is exactly the reason I do not own a staple gun (or a nail gun, or a chainsaw):

Text message?

Did someone in the Boston area with a phone number ending in 3997 just send me an MMS message? If you did, please email me at my @livejournal address, because the content didn't make it through.