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Sight: The Two Towers, The Punch

Sound: best of Willie Nelson, best of Bond Films

Touch: Mark of Kri, Roadside Rescue

Taste: Mountain Dew

Smell: smells like Back to Work

Virtual: Fark, TMOL

Book List 2002

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Live From New York, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller

Batman: Bruce Wayne Fugitive, Greg Rucka and Ed Bruebaker

Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco, Brett Forrest

JLA: Tower of Babel, Mark Waid et al

The Archer's Tale, Bernard Cornwell

Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

Narcissus in Chains, Laurell K. Hamilton

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, Anthony Bourdain

** A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L'Engle

** A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle

** A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

The Leper of Saint Giles: The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

Pyramids, Terry Pratchett

** Halloween, Curtis Richards

Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain

** Animal Farm, George Orwell

Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience, Martin Gardner

Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students, Anders Henriksson

What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained, Robert L. Wolke

Would You Rather?, Justin Heimberg, David Gomberg

The Descent, Jeff Long

St. Peter's Fair: The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett

** The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien

Monk's Hood: The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

A Kiss of Shadows, Laurell K. Hamilton

Best of H.P. Lovecraft : Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, H.P. Lovecraft

Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, Michael Moore

Detachment Bravo, Richard Marcinko

Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World, Walter Mosley

Eric, Terry Pratchett

The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkein

The Bear and the Dragon, Tom Clancy

Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
** -- previously read

Book List 2001

August Assclown of the Month!
posted by dwinn at 4:32 PM

Baseball Greetings, Ernie Harwell
posted by dwinn at 1:42 PM

Sleep -- that's where I'm a viking!

They're replacing the aluminum siding on our townhouse. This is a good concept spoiled by the fact that they start doing it at 7:45 AM.
Thus, I have been incredibly tired for the last three days.

However, this is also generating more of those Sexy Actress dreams.

So I guess it's a wash.
posted by dwinn at 1:41 PM

This one is for the Julie
posted by dwinn at 2:08 PM

In the Strange Department, my exercise bike broke down yesterday with no real chance for resurrection. The autopsy shows what looked to be a stress fracture developing along the pylon that leads to the right pedal, and given enough time and mileage it finally sheared completely through.

A new one will be pricey, but a recumbent bike, like this one, will probably work out better than the old upright.
posted by dwinn at 1:53 AM

Semi-Automatic Neck Breaker.

Thank god. I was pretty sick of having to reset the old manual neck breakers.
posted by dwinn at 2:36 AM

The concert last night must have got my brain working, cause I had some crazy dreams again. I think I did come up with a script treatment for an episode of Buffy, Vampire Slayer.

My dreams have had a lot of celebrities lately. Prior to this morning I had a dream where I went to an acting class taught by Robert DeNiro. He's one tough monkey in my dream-world. Then there was the one where MTV News sent me and Bridget Fonda to interview the Red Hot Chili Peppers because of rumors they were breaking up. However, Bridget did not want to concern herself with the interview, only with mackin' on me. (I guess the dream with Alyson Hannigan followed a vaguely similar path, except the story ends much sweeter and sadder.)
posted by dwinn at 5:26 PM

As mentioned, Nevik gave a couple of lawn seats at Pine Knob for the Rush concert yesterday, and after some waffling I decided to go. I'm glad I did -- we had a great time and the band was spectacular. However, the experience could have been a disaster for the following reasons:

First off, the "lawn" doesn't actually have any grass left on it. It's dirt, plain and simple. Also, the "lawn" area on the hill is rather small -- I was expecting something a bit larger than the outfield at a pee-wee baseball field.

If the weather hadn't cooperated and it would have poured, sitting in mud would NOT have been fun.

People smoking doobs right behind us. Christ.

I couldn't keep a Mullet Watch because we were completely overwhelmed

You can't see anything on the hill if you are sitting unless everyone sits, which never happens. Thus you get to stand on the side of a hill for the whole show.

There are not a lot of bands that I would endure these possibilities (or realities) for; luckily the band did not fail to deliver. Rock on! (gives Devil Fingers)
posted by dwinn at 4:54 PM

(All I had was MS Paint, see...)
posted by dwinn at 11:02 AM

We were pretty busy this weekend.

I had the day off Friday, which I used to run a bunch of errands, get my hair cut, etc. By the time Jules got home, we ran to get a quick dinner before doing all our monthly shopping and then coming home to clean up for Saturday.

Saturday we cleaned the house to be acceptable to visiting humans, then we met up with a bunch of pals at the Nasty Buffet for dinner; we came back to the house to have cake, and everyone was incredibly generous with gifts.

Sunday I did some chopping for Julie early, then we drove out to my folks' house for family birthday, where we got even more things. Then, on the way back, we drove through a pouring rainstorm.

The end! Lots of fun all around.
posted by dwinn at 5:30 PM

Another year older. Julie made meatloaf last night and gave me bunch of books and other wacky things from Middle Earth; I had a pretty good day overall, at least once I got out of work. Thanks again to everyone for their well-wishes.
posted by dwinn at 1:38 PM