what i'm reading

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (#5), J. K. Rowling

still a good one

"Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice -- it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and *die*. The storybooks are *bullshit*. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and *get* in my bed!"
--Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage), Moonstruck

my latest addiction

Sudoku!

red and blue

"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
--Kurt Vonnegut

mirabelle

"Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely heart turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her identifies with all that darkness."
--Steve Martin, Shopgirl

happy halloween

Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
--Shakespeare, Macbeth

i love book lists

Time Magazine book critics made a list of the top 100 novels since 1923. I've only read 20, so I love having another list to work through (another incentive to read many of these books, many of which are already sitting on the shelf).

I'm also working on the Modern Library 100 list. I've only read 19 of these. Many of the same books are on both lists.

riding dinosaurs to church

"A new poll this week revealed that 66% of Americans think that President Bush is doing a poor job with the war in Iraq. And the remaining 34% percent think Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church."
--Tina Fey, Weekend Update, SNL

to rosa parks

Thanks for not staying in "your place," even when everything and everyone in the world told you to shut up and go to the back of the bus.

the priceless moment

"If I could have looked down the years then and seen everything from beginning to end -- the good times, the best times, the bad times, the bad decisions, the indecision, and then finally the divorce -- I still would not have traded anything for that moment."
--Kingbird Highway, Kenn Kaufmann

unbelievable

"Also, it is very important that time is allowed for Mr. Brown to eat dinner. Gievn (sic) that Baton Rouge is back to normal, restaurants are getting busy. He needs much more that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes. We now have traffic to encounter to get to and from a location of his choise (sic), followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc."
--Sharon Worthy, Michael Brown's press secretary, in an email to Cindy Taylor, FEMA deputy director of public affairs, and others, Aug. 31, 2 p.m. via

reckless

"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with those who are reckless with yours."
--Mary Schmich

what i'm reading

Kingbird Highway, Kenn Kaufman
Sex Wars, Marge Piercy
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (#4), J. K. Rowling

thinking in herds

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
--Charles Mackay

Case in point.

i failed the allegiance test

"The George W. Bush Loyalty Quiz
10 Questions to Test Your Allegiance to President Bush

Your score is 0 on a scale of 1 to 10. You hate Bush with a writhing passion. You think he is an idiot, a liar, and a warmonger who has been a miserable failure as president. Nothing would give you greater pleasure than seeing him run out of the White House, except maybe seeing him dragged away in handcuffs."

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They said it. Take the quiz yourself.

surely canst go, girl

The Hokey Pokey Written by Shakespeare

"O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
The Hoke, the poke -- banish now thy doubt
Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about."

ether hour

Some friends of mine started a new band, and they are very talented. Check out their website to get free music.

the power of forgetting

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
--The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera

liquidation

"You begin to liquidate a people ... by taking away its memory. You destroy its books, its culture, its history. And then others write books for it. Then the people slowly begins to forget what it is and what it was. The world at large forgets it still faster."
--The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera

cyborg name

I am "Wireless Electronic Neohuman Designed for Yelling."
Oddly ... very appropriate.
What are you?