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Archive for September 2008

Soul Weekenders

In Video on 1 September 2008 tagged Listening, Watching with 1 comment

Northern Soul in the UK.

Tourist attractions

In Shorts on 2 September 2008 tagged Conversations, Places, The Man with no comments

Recently got this email from my number one husband:
British newspapers have nekkid ladies in them! This trip is going to be AWESOME!
Here’s to hoping the next seven days fly by…

Ladies’ choice

In Video on 5 September 2008 tagged Watching with no comments

Devastatingly handsome, and he has moves.

Failed bands of Oklahoma

In Internerd, Shorts on 8 September 2008 tagged Reading, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? with 2 comments

Via someone (I can’t remember who, maybe Megan?) comes a truly strange link: Failed Bands of Oklahoma, striving “to garner press coverage for failed bands worldwide.”

Vocabulary list

In Blog on 8 September 2008 tagged Reading with no comments

So. I just finished reading Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and here is the list of words, terms and names of interest, which I scribbled on a piece of Crown Plaza Hotel notepad-come-bookmark throughout my reading of the book:

intaglio
abattoir
charnel
fricatives
gleet
mien
stoat
pitch
ersatz
gibbets
Karen Greenlee*
Diego Rivera

*To read a truly disturbing interview with Greenlee, one of the most infamous [...]

Lessing and more

In Blog, Video on 9 September 2008 tagged Places, Reading with no comments

The weather in Houston has been exceptionally agreeable of late. It took the Labor Day clue and is now transitioning into fall. I know it’s a cruel joke because Texas summers last well into October, sometimes November and December and January. Texas can’t fool me, but it can get my hopes up.
It is fall in [...]