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Archive for September 2008

Soul Weekenders

Northern Soul in the UK.

Tourist attractions

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

Devastatingly handsome, and he has moves.

Failed bands of Oklahoma

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

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

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 [...]