Today was the Great Octopus Expotition* of Rachael C. Kenyon. She’s been asking what octopus tastes like, so I told her I’d take her to the sushi place we like and we’d try some. Seriously? If you’re ever in a situation where your kid likes to try new foods, go to a sushi place and […]
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline is coming out next year. Here‘s the sneak preview, from NG’s website. The character design reminds me of PJ Harvey, because her face gets lopsided. I seriously cannot think of any other way to come up with that face other than look at PJ Harvey and go, “Huh. Now that’s how you
…will come out in 2010/2011 (as two movies?) with Peter Jackson producing and Sam Raimi directing. So far, so good. And Gandalf: Ian McKellen stated that he’d love to be Gandalf again, and that Peter Jackson had let him know that he had to do it, even though Jackson might not be involved. “If I
There is the science of cooking…and then there are the cooking metaphors of science. Half-Life: The time required to convert one half of a reactant to product. The term is commonly applied to radioactive decay, where the reactant is the parent isotope and the product is a daughter isotope. (About.com) Half-Life of Baked Goods: The
I am a 2nd level Chaotic Neutral Elvish Wizard. Hm…sounds about right.
By Straight No Chaser. –These guys are nuts. Just plain nuts.
Like Sigur Ros, only not. Dreamy and open ambient not-quite-techno. Wunden gibt es immer wieder.
Thief, Liar, Gentleman? By Eleanor Updale. A YA book, first in a series. I liked it; I’ll be reading at least the next book. The premise was interesting–a petty thief leaves prison and begins a dual life, that of criminal and gentleman. But the character makes too many mistakes for me to consider him a
Ray and I put together a gingerbread-house kit tonight. It was a good idea — whenever I make gingerbread, some kind of primal instinct says, “KILL KILL KILL.”* In short, it doesn’t last very long. But the gingerbread in the kit was already stale, hard, and didn’t smell like gingerbread at all. Perfect. For building
Terry Pratchett has a rare form of early-onset Alzheimers. –I’m not going to eulogize here. As he notes in his letter, he’s not dead yet. But MAAAAAN, has the guy ever been a provider of hope and good times curled up on the couch with Lee, trying to resist the urge to read all the
