Strange Bedfellows

Warning: Puns. If Sondra Locke married Elliott Ness, then divorced him to marry Herman Munster, she’d become Sondra Locke Ness Monster. If Shirley Jones married Tom Ewell, then Johnny Rotten, then Nathan Hale, she’d be Shirley Ewell Rotten Hale. (via Grow-a-Brain.)

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Word of the Day.

Home with Ray, who’s down with a sinus infection. She took two naps yesterday. Dude. Anyway, the word of the day: prelapsarian (pree-lap-SAYR-ee-uhn) adjective Relating to any innocent or carefree period in the past. [From Latin pre- (before) + lapsus (fall). The term refers to the periodin the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve

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Book Review.

The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd I’m sure pretty nearly everybody who’s going to read this book has already read it, but I had some thoughts I wanted to write down anyway. Spoilers ahead, for those who mind. This is a book about the South during the Civil Rights Movement; a white

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Question of the Day.

Name five books, music CDs, or movies, if any, that would you rather buy someone a copy of rather than loan out your last copy. Yours truly: Annotated Alice, Lewis/Tenniel/GardnerCollected Fictions, Jorge Luis BorgesFLCL (anime)Master Li and Number Ten Ox Novels, Barry HughartThe Sandman series …and I would be pretty itchy about any Tom Waits

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