So, I’m finding myself getting a slow start on this faux-Monday morning, after an afternoon and evening spent in the sublime company of Sunshine, Mr. Cavin, and the inimitable Bet. Christopher suggested last week that everyone post a list of the books they have out from the library. Mine after the cut (though I’m taking a bunch back so the "block" on my account will come off and I can pick up Skin Hunger and Innocence) — lack of caps can be blamed on the library ELF:
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Which PLAIN Jane Are You? Main Jane |
| As the leader of the pack, you are always looking out for your friends and working to make your group pretty tight knit. |
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(Via the Lady Cecil!)
Apparently based on the presence of the words hell, crap, death, and pain. Interesting… I’m beginning to think that Someone’s Grandma designed the criteria. (Via Finding Wonderland.)
The wonderful Susan at Chicken Spaghetti tagged me for the 8 things meme. Sayeth the rules:
For this meme, each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
1. Working a window shade or blinds — of any kind except the Roman variety — is like doing extreme physics for me. Christopher swears this is easy to do and most people learn to deal with them as children. I’m very skeptical.
2. I floss every day. And I don’t really understand you non-daily flossers.
3. I grew up in a county with only one stoplight, fifteen minutes away from my house.
4. I read the complete works of William Shakespeare between the ages of 11 and 13.
5. In high school, I wrote a lot of poetry about George Bush, Sr. If you’d like, I might be persuaded to humiliate my younger selfpost one.
6. So many of these are about my youth because we are at my parents’ house right now, in Bond, Ky.
7. I often pretend to be a spy. Sometimes I wonder if now I really am one.
8. Nine times out of ten, I know whether I’m going to like a book by the end of the first paragraph. And why.
I would tag, but I am too the lazy to go posting in comments. Also, I can’t remember who has already done this one and who hasn’t, so if you haven’t done it yet and want to then go forth and listicate.
At age 30:
Mark Twain published his first short story, “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.”
Danish novelist Hans Christian Andersen published his book of fairy tales.
Nat Turner led a slave rebellion.
U.S. mariner Moses Rogers made the first ocean steamboat voyage.
Donald Trump persuaded bankers to lend him $80 million so he could buy the Commodore Hotel.
Samuel Morse’s assistant, Alfred Lewis Vail, devised Morse code.
Physicist Armand H. L. Fizeau measured the speed of light.
Dr. Narinder Kapany invented fiber optics and designed a glass gastroscope which can be snaked down the throat for a detailed view of the stomach.
Hank Williams overdosed on drugs and alcohol.
Bill Gates was the first person ever to become a billionaire by age 30.
Earl Vickers started the Dollar Project, in which dollar bills were rubber-stamped as being lost, with a reward offered for their safe return.
Susan Smith figured out where all the plain wire hangers come from. It took her a long time because she never goes to the dry cleaners.
(Via Kameron.)
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You are one wise-cracking lady, always quick with a clever remark and easily able to keep up with the quips and puns that come along with the nutty situations you find yourself in. You’re usually able to talk your way out of any jam, and even if you can’t, you at least make it more interesting with your biting wit. You can match the smartest guy around line for line, and you’ve got an open mind that allows you to get what you want, even if you don’t recognize it at first. Your leading men include Cary Grant and Clark Gable, men who can keep up with you.
Find out what kind of classic leading man you’d make by taking the
Classic Leading Man Test.
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(Via Literaticat.)
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Gacked from Betsy at Fusenumber8, because I’m too swamped for real content today. (I was a-scared of the Dickens test.)
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Numero 2 behind the cut:
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Cloudscome over at A Wrung Sponge tagged me for the five favorite non-book blogs meme, in which I happily participate. There are a few, you know, non-book blogs out there. Or so I’ve heard. And I read some of them, mostly of the science and musical persuasion, but this is actually hard because even the blogs I read that don’t deal with the fictional arts very often are mostly written by writers and thus ineligible. Still, I’m actually going to cheat and do six. So, in no particular order:
And a posthumous shout-out to Dana’s deceased Number One Hit Song, which was my favorite non-books-all-the-time blog ever. It’s worth losing your day to the archives.
(Um, I don’t consider this to really be a blog, it’s just pictures of puppies, but yeah, it’s one of the first stops in the morning. I’m also a big ole puppy softie.)
I tag any and all y’all, because I’m always curious to see what people are reading outside of blogs about books.
