Sunday 22 February 2009 at 03:41 am
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Though this book’s jacket notes the author was, among other indignities, “sprayed by a bird-eating tarantula” and “ejaculated on by a Bengal tiger,” it doesn’t hold as many up-close and bizarre wildlife encounters as it seems to promise. To be fair, the book’s subhead emphasizes “reptile smugglers” (not the animals themselves), and I’d be lying if I said there weren’t animals on practically every page, but I guess I was hoping for more.
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Saturday 10 January 2009 at 7:43 pm
I started writing this post on my lunch break at work. Not a big deal, I know, but this is significant to me, and germane to what I want to talk about, so I’m mentioning it.
My lunch hours for the last few years have typically been spent reading blog entries or online forums or things like that. As something of an information junkie, I love the new. The worlds of art, music, economics, religion, politics, etc. are in constant evolution, and they push and pull against each other in fascinating ways. It’s not always pleasant to watch, but it feels good to know what’s going on in the parts of the world I’m most interested in.
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Wednesday 24 December 2008 at 08:41 am
As in years past (and as mentioned in my previous post), it’s time for my 2008 music mix. The idea is not that it be a “best of” list like you’d see from a music critic. It’s intended to just be a forum for reflection and the sharing of recent listening habits. The guidelines and my list are after the jump, and please leave a list of your own in the comments…
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Monday 22 December 2008 at 7:27 pm
2008 is fading fast, and 2009 is just around the corner. It’s the end of the year, and ranked top ten (or twenty or fifty or hundred) lists are cropping up for everything imaginable, as usual.
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Friday 19 December 2008 at 02:24 am
Ten thousand bucks for dropping subjects from sentences and not using quotation marks.
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Saturday 01 November 2008 at 3:25 pm
This last August, we took a nice long vacation to Northern California and spent some quality time with just about all of our in-state family. On the Lake Tahoe leg of our trip, we spent a long morning playing in the shallows at Meeks Bay.
While helping the toddlers build and destroy sand castles, I had an idea for a photographic project.
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