The piano has been drinkingAnd the bar stools are all on fireAnd all the newspapers were just foolingAnd the ash-trays have retiredAnd I’ve got a feeling that the piano has been drinkingIt’s just a hunchThe piano has been drinking and he’s going to lose his lunchAnd the piano has been drinkingNot me, not me, The […]

Quite a bit of the stuff is packed. No insurmountable obstacles looming. I’ve been in a foul mood the last few days, mostly caused by a few minor issues and a lot of worry. The more stuff is packed/cleaned/resolved, the better I feel, though, so it works out. Auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggghhhh!

nudiustertian (nu-di-uhs-TUR-shuhn) adjective Of or relating to the day before yesterday. [From Latin nudius tertius, literally, today is the third day.] ( via wordsmith.org)

Knippling selected for newspaper job BY C. SHEPPARDBilly McMacken, publisher of the Brookings Register, has announced the hiring of Matt Knippling to join the Moody County Enterprise staff. Knippling will begin his employment August 28th and will replace ML Headrick, who worked for the newspaper for over 20 years. Knippling lives in Eden Prairie, MN

I ran into this the other day and didn’t think much more about it. Yesterday, I heard an article on NPR about it. While the image that accompanies the song is obviously anime (I missed where it was from–if you know, tell me), the band is Loituma, a Finnish folk music quartet. The NPR article

By Linda Medley. Stories tend to be too tightly written. After having read Castle Waiting, I realized that. The storyline goes all over the place and doesn’t so much leave you hanging at the end but blow out the light and crawl into bed. The story starts with the “Sleeping Beauty” folktale. New baby, twelve

By Bob and Melinda Blanchard. I checked this out from the library, but it will be a purchase after we get settled in after the move. So…with all the free recipes online, why would I need to buy cookbooks? (Why? asks Lee. Whyyyyyyy?) The authors address this question in the introduction, and I agree with

(Age 3-4 on up.) I like Tim Egan’s kids’ books. They aren’t spectacular. They aren’t a delight to read (not the way books by Dr. Seuss or Maurice Sendak are). What they are is literate. They are, in fact, the most “literate” kids’ books I’ve ever come across. Most kids’ books assume kids can’t assimilate

Disney has made all kinds of sequels and tie-in videos for the movie Beauty and the Beast, but all of them show the Beast as a Beast, and not a man. Apparently, the man isn’t interesting enough to be a character.

I’m not sure what the train of thought was, but I was thinking about some of the many books that show unreal or distorted houses. No, wait–I’m reading Mountain of Black Glass at work, and one of the character groups was travelling through a VR world consisting of a single, unending house. Anyway, I made