Monday passed by with relatively little pain. It didn't hit me until yesterday that all of my TV shows are done and over with for the season. This realization was made all the more harsher, after I compelled myself to sit through The Oh in Ohio. You don't think things could go wrong with Paul Rudd,...
Today was really long. Monday's at Duke you have all your classes for forty-five minutes. So you feel like you've been in school forever. Not to mention if your sister Alice has to go in at ungodly 7:30. She gets mad cause I complain about it but it's really annoying. Anyway. Today in arts block I...
Sparklehorse lyrics Tina Fey's Sorkin-assassinating '30 Rock,' which would be the most quotable show ever if I lived in a country where anyone would understand shit like "I'm on my grind!" 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' by Michael Chabon, which I haven't read since I was 19 and still...
Summer Reading List. take one hmmm. okay. i am going to write one of those tacky summer reading lists. because i live next door to a bookstore and plan to do a lot of reading this summer. I'm coming off of my classic kick, which I've been on all year and I'm going back to basics for summer: fun and...
How well does your name Google? Who are you up against? (Celebrities, etc.) Submitted by Matt Blank. How well, you ask? surprisingly well, in fact. Googling my first name alone brings up some surprising answers, such as www.ayelet.com, which is a travel agency, of all things. And then, of course,...
Books: Show us your summer reading list. Submitted by marvel is my pen name. Following is a list of books I'm planning on reading. I may or may not get to them all this summer, but this is what I have on tap, anyway: PD James, Children of Men - currently reading Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A...
the last half of this song, the three minutes of repetition that might otherwise annoy me like most repetitive anything does, is both empowering and cathartic. and the whole song is just plain beautiful. i made deviled eggs today, with only mild success. but i got a double yolk. isn't that supposed...
So here it is May 30 and still I haven't started reading a book, in spite of my solemn vow to do so each month from now on. Shopgirl has been laying on the floor by my bed, it's been in my bag when I've gone to the park, it's been in my hands -- but that's it. I'm still issues and issues behind in...
I first read Michael Chabon several years ago when his Pulitzer-prize-winning novel The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay came out. The book is easily one of my favorites. I was immediately drawn to the characters, the language, the setting. After Kavalier and Clay, I backtracked and read Mysteries of...
As much as I loved Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, until recently I hadn't since sought out any of his other books. In particular, Wonder Boys, of which I never saw the movie, either, but whose trailer I was always sort of annoyed by. [1] But so I read Wonder Boys last...
My coworker just loaned me three books, which I have dutifully put on the Book Project list. And then I looked at the list, and it is out of control. This is where we are: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Undertow by Sydney...
The Michael Chabon signing was pleasant. There was one obnoxious person who felt he had to ask a dumb/embarrassing question to kick things off. But overall it was good, and I'm excited to read the book. I probably won't get to it for a while; there are a lot of other books on my plate first. And...
I made this list a while ago, but have gotten around to posting/editing it. I'm giving myself until May 2010(when I graduate college) to finish it. Please leave a comment telling me any books you recommend. Thanks =) Start: January 5th, 2007 Books: Alphabetical by Author ( [R] are the books I'm...
It's been updated. Again. (I'm also going to add the books I buy this year as I buy them--and the new releases that I know I'm buying--so that it's a better list of what I've read and what I want to read.) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by...
Since I've become unemployed, the time I have for reading has increased dramatically. And I love it. Sometimes I forget how amazing books can be because I also watch a lot of movies. So here are some short reviews of some of my latest adventures. To keep my mind as active as possible, I try to...
So I had the bright idea of adding all new books I buy and the books I know I will buy to the book project so at the end of the year I'll know what books I read. And so it will become apparent to all who read this just how much of a life I (don't) have. It's a lot, I know. But I also know I can...
This one comes from LibraryThing. Members are taking the current top 106 unread books and marking it up according to their own reading. Here's mine: * = I own the book Bold = I’ve read the book # = I read the book for high school or university Italics = I’ve started the book Stricken = I hated...
I have a list of books that I wanted to read this year (52, so far) and I've read two of them already. (The Secret History by Donna Tartt and Anne Frank's diary.) They're stuff that I've wanted to read for a while but for whatever reason, I haven't gotten around to yet. I'm currently reading Five...
Wonder Boys; Michael Chabon Michael Chabon's memo to the world that writers have as much sex, drugs, and rock and roll as Mick Jagger. They just do it in tweed, with the lights out. And with a lot more self-loathing contemplation. It's difficult to read Wonder Boys and not make petulant comparisons...
On Chapter 5 and loving it. Man, I wish I could write like this!
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