This recently came to my attention: A Swiss museum is counting the cost of having crap art, after a giant inflatable dog turd the size of a house broke free from its moorings in high winds. The massive poo, an artwork by American Paul McCarthy, left a trail of destruction in its wake as it […]
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Just broke
I finished Breaking Dawn on Wednesday; days later, I still don’t know what to think about it. I’m conflicted. I look forward to Sara finishing it, so that I have someone to discuss it with. On a brighter note- WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TONIGHT!
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Sleep Break
I got 500 pages into Breaking Dawn before going to bed last night. So far… sigh. I suppose I can’t make a full assessment until I’m through. Even then, I’m not sure I want to post it here for awhile, since there are probably a lot of people who don’t want anything spoiled for them […]
Apparently, the changes Phantom Regiment made to their show were well received by judges (and from all accounts, by the fans too). Current standings (bound to change) list the top 5 as: PR, Blue Devils, The Cavaliers, Carolina Crown and The Cadets. When thinking about posting this morning at the bus stop, I began to […]
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Still Alive
I’m past the whiny phase of being sick, so it’s probably safe to post again. The flu completely kicked my arse this week. I woke up Saturday feeling fine and by Sunday morning I couldn’t move or eat without being sick. The sinus pressure in my face was so bad that my teeth were throbbing. […]
For those who want a discount on books: I got an email from Borders this morning urging me to visit the newly revamped borders.com (they broke off from amazon awhile back). They’ve increased the graphics (it’s a broadband world), made use of bookshelf browse (same idea as LibraryThing only prettier), and put more of their […]
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Farthest from the Madding Book
Dear Tom, Why do you do this to me? I wish to read all of your Wessex novels unabridged, truly I do, but you have made it exceedingly difficult to get through Far from the Madding Crowd. It would be one thing if you were one of those verbose authors, typical of 19th century, but […]
Crown beats the Cadets The Cadets have been on top (or damn near) for the duration of the relatively short time I’ve followed DCI. For a fairly new corp to come along and upset one of the top scoring corps… Well, check out this YouTube user for full shows from Crown, Cadets and Crusaders (placing […]
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Aidan’s Darcy trilogy
I have finally finished reading Pamela Aidan’s Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy. I promised that I would post something here when I finished, so here are some thoughts. NOTE: I’ve made an effort to minimize the number of spoilers but this IS a review (of sorts); there are bound to be a few extremely mild spoilers.
The Indiana Daily Student ran a review of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Tuesday and I completely forgot to post it. You can find it here. I was playing around in my LibraryThing account and discovered a cool widget that I will have to put on the blog. Until I do, be it known […]
Playing in Puddles 