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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

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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
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Book List 2001

Back with stories from Sin City next week...
posted by dwinn at 2:28 AM

Well, well. Much has happened in the last few days - most important, of course, is that Julie and I tied the knot.

Everything went so incredibly smoothly - I was expecting some kind of disaster to happen somewhere along the line - but the ceremony was wonderful and the reception was good as well. I have to plug the The Johnstown Cats for bringing the house down at the reception. Everyone in attendance was wowed by these guys and you can hire them for you next party/reception/bar mitzvah/whatever.

Since this weekend Julie and I have been off from work - actually she's gone in today and tomorrow to clean up messes - and for the most part have just been recovering.

If I understand correctly there was some wagering as to if I would tear up during the ceremony. While I didn't, I did not want the loser of said bet to feel too bad, so let me related this story:

The night before the wedding Jules and I exchanged wedding gifts. I got her a digital camera that she's been salivating over, and she gave to me a Garmin handheld GPS device - very cool. However, it was the card she gave me - I can't really say off the top of my head what the words were inside, but all I knew then is that I was bawling like a little girl. So there.

So what have we been doing lately? Relaxing, playing with our wedding gifts (my coworkers bought we one of those Ronco Rotisserie Ovens and I've been cooking salmon and chicken in it. Surprisingly, unlike most infomercial items, this actually is really cool and made excellent salmon), taking a dip in the hot tubs at the Oasis Hot Tub Gardens, and getting ready for the real honeymoon next week in fabulous Las Vegas.

A final word on marriage - I have to admit that there's no magical feeling that suddenly overcomes one once married. Well, maybe there is or would be for people who hadn't lived together, or people from years ago. But Jules and I have been together for over three years and have known each other much longer than that, so our lives are much the same, save these rings on our hands. But you know what? We don't mind that at all.
posted by dwinn at 4:47 PM

Jeffk: Daikitana versis Daimakaimura!!!!!
posted by dwinn at 5:20 PM

Here are the things I learned this weekend:

• Sometimes a bottle of beer and a glass of cola can cost the same amount of money - in this case, $6.50.
  
• According to Rachel, all of the dancers at Danny's in Windsor are gay.
  
• The number one piece of advice that strippers exotic dancers have for a young man who is getting married: "Be nice. Treat her well."
  
• The worse advice? "Sign a pre-nup."
  
• The bathroom attendant from the Big Red commercials works at Cheetah's.
  
• Cheesiest way of getting crowd response by the announcer at Cheetah's: "If you're not gay, clap real loud."
  
• Dance station #1 is furthest from the entrance.
  
• Exotic dancers are attuned to astrological phenomena.
  
• I have a terrific group of pals.
  

posted by dwinn at 3:41 PM

Oh, and "in the interest of fairness", here's some other eye candy:

Taylor Hayes

Give me the whip, and I'll throw you the idol.
posted by dwinn at 4:24 PM

I was running late for work this morning when my boss called to say that since the power had been out there for several hours we'd be closing for the day. Yeehaw! Instant karma strikes again.

It's too bad Julie didn't stay up a bit later last night, as Oded Fehr was on Craig Kilborn last night. With his new haircut he looks suspiciously like St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner.

Anyway, with the day off I was able to go get our marriage license. We were also gifted with a sack full of cleaning product samples in some sort of "Congrats on getting married!" gift from the Washtenaw County Clerk's office. What, they don't think we know how to wash clothes before getting hitched? Of course, this from the same governmental group who never struck the part of the marriage laws that doesn't allow "imbeciles" or people with nasty social diseases to enter into marriage.
posted by dwinn at 4:09 PM

Cliffs Notes founder dead at 83

Remember, reading this obituary is no substitute for having actually lived the life in question.
posted by dwinn at 2:33 AM

Final Tribal Council

survivorsucks.com recaps make it all worthwhile.
posted by dwinn at 4:16 PM

Think of all of the technological wonders that mankind has developed. We've produced powerful medicines that have all but eradicated diseases which had once killed millions. Computer processors are more powerful than ever and most are smaller than a post-it note. Scientists have created spacecraft capable of delivering man out of our gravity well and atmosphere and onto our moon.

Also consider the great creativity involved not only in the production of this technology, but the advance of the creative arts overall -- in any medium the spark of ingenuity is expressed, allowing the human race the probe the depths of our souls -- from Michelangelo to Jackson Pollack to Frank Lloyd Wright. You cannot help but to be awed by by what man can do.

Then, to flush that all down the crapper, there's this.
posted by dwinn at 2:49 PM

Birthday props to Dann. However, he may only have 47 years left to live.
posted by dwinn at 4:53 PM