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Jul. 15th, 2007 06:04 pmI answered some newbie-with-Japanese-garb questions on sca-jml, and worked on the sleeves and collar for the Tosenin. Why didn't I finish them?
Because I needed to get out of the garret. Badly.
KDFC's Sunday morning "Big Island (of Serenity)"programing was so serene it was putting me to sleep - Vivaldi and Mozart's Flute and Harp concerto and some damn Harry Potter waltzy thing from Goblet of Yawning Bore. At least they finally cracked the somnolence with Monti's "Czardas" ) Remember, finishing the gold work does not mean this project is finished, it means it's maybe halfway done I can finish the gold tomorrow night if I want but I need clean underwear SOON.
I ran a load of laundry and finished reading Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, which only serves to remind me to get down on my knees and thank God that J. K. Rowling says she has written the last of Harry F***ing Potter and maybe people will start reading something clever and intelligent that actually deserves to sell well. Thanks to
mamapduck for turning me on to Fforde with The Eyre Affair.
I look at the $25 Boring Snowballs gift card that's been sitting on the TV table since Christmas and think, "Emeryville or Jack London Square?" Emeryville will be harder to get to traffic-wise.
Silly me. I forgot that Jack London Square is THE Barnes and Noble that will never actually have anything you want, unless it's every edition of every Jack London title. Or Harry F***ing Potter, of course, because somebody might actually run out of the Jack London Cinema and have to buy a copy of The Order Of The Flea Collar. The "Summer Reading" table was like a bad flashback from high school, except they had Life of Pi and a Chinua Achebe novel mixed in there with the Hemingway and the Salinger and the Fitzgerald. They did NOT have Well of Lost Plots, so I had to settle for Something Rotten. They did not have Lindsay Davis' See Delphi and Die. I settled on Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club, which passed my Random Paragraph Test. I was pleased to see a prominent display stand for a new paperback edition of Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials, no doubt tying into the December release of The Golden Compass.
I read a review of the new Potter. It sounds like it really helps if you liked the book. I thought Order of the Phoenix was boring, so I doubt I'm going to go out of my way to see it in a theater. Potter as gateway drug has its merits. Give your kid Sorcerer's Stone to read, then say, "You liked that, wait until you read THIS!" and hand them The Golden Compass. Or Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave.....
Because I needed to get out of the garret. Badly.
KDFC's Sunday morning "Big Island (of Serenity)"programing was so serene it was putting me to sleep - Vivaldi and Mozart's Flute and Harp concerto and some damn Harry Potter waltzy thing from Goblet of Yawning Bore. At least they finally cracked the somnolence with Monti's "Czardas" ) Remember, finishing the gold work does not mean this project is finished, it means it's maybe halfway done I can finish the gold tomorrow night if I want but I need clean underwear SOON.
I ran a load of laundry and finished reading Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, which only serves to remind me to get down on my knees and thank God that J. K. Rowling says she has written the last of Harry F***ing Potter and maybe people will start reading something clever and intelligent that actually deserves to sell well. Thanks to
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I look at the $25 Boring Snowballs gift card that's been sitting on the TV table since Christmas and think, "Emeryville or Jack London Square?" Emeryville will be harder to get to traffic-wise.
Silly me. I forgot that Jack London Square is THE Barnes and Noble that will never actually have anything you want, unless it's every edition of every Jack London title. Or Harry F***ing Potter, of course, because somebody might actually run out of the Jack London Cinema and have to buy a copy of The Order Of The Flea Collar. The "Summer Reading" table was like a bad flashback from high school, except they had Life of Pi and a Chinua Achebe novel mixed in there with the Hemingway and the Salinger and the Fitzgerald. They did NOT have Well of Lost Plots, so I had to settle for Something Rotten. They did not have Lindsay Davis' See Delphi and Die. I settled on Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club, which passed my Random Paragraph Test. I was pleased to see a prominent display stand for a new paperback edition of Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials, no doubt tying into the December release of The Golden Compass.
I read a review of the new Potter. It sounds like it really helps if you liked the book. I thought Order of the Phoenix was boring, so I doubt I'm going to go out of my way to see it in a theater. Potter as gateway drug has its merits. Give your kid Sorcerer's Stone to read, then say, "You liked that, wait until you read THIS!" and hand them The Golden Compass. Or Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave.....