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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

Happy Halloween! Check out the Homestar Runner Halloween Special!.
posted by dwinn at 3:50 PM

*phew* It was getting close to the wire, but luckily the October AssClown of the Month got the job done with two days to spare!
posted by dwinn at 1:09 AM

Mike the Deadbeat -- the fantasy of anyone who's had to deal with either Comcast, Ameritech, or DTE Energy.
posted by dwinn at 4:18 PM

This Saturday I watched twelve straight hours of scary movies in AMC's Halloween marathon. That was a lot of time lying on the couch.

posted by dwinn at 2:48 PM

Sat Oct 26: AMC's Halloween marathon
Thu Oct 31: TNN's Friday the 13th marathon
posted by dwinn at 2:52 PM

The rules system for the Buffy RPG uses the Unisystem for its game engine. This struck a note with me until I realized last night that it was the same engine used by All Flesh Must Be Eaten.
posted by dwinn at 5:38 PM

This weekend I managed to accomplish the following:

Finished a devious jigsaw puzzle that Jill gave me for my birthday

Finally won a game of Settlers after about a dozen tries

Watched both the Lions and Wolverines win their respective games

However, my fantasy football team took a horrible beating.
posted by dwinn at 5:16 PM

The other night I'd finished the Cadfael book I was reading and went to bed, fully expecting to move on to the new Laurell K. Hamilton book Julie brought home. I saw it on my bookshelf and made plans to start reading it Wednesday night.

I woke up, looked at the book on the shelf and briefly considered taking it to work before leaving for Arbor Lakes.

Then I came home to find that mere minutes before I'd shown up, my lovely wife swiped it off my bookshelf!

When she came home, I told her what had happened and she started yelling at me, but luckily I took The High Road!

The End.
posted by dwinn at 2:51 PM

Ask and ye shall recieve! From Erik Rydholm, Executive Producer of PTI:

We had a preview special on October 17th, then went daily on October
22nd. October 17th was like giving birth to the baby. October 22nd was
like taking it home from the hospital. We're right.

E

posted by dwinn at 3:18 PM

Happy Birthday to Pardon the Interruption, which turns 1 today. (At least according to Wilbon on yesterday's show. The web page says Oct 22.)
posted by dwinn at 2:05 PM

GAMES Magazine: 2003 Top 100 Games
posted by dwinn at 3:16 PM

Fark Photoshop Contest: Scenes from Old-School Video Games that Never Happened
posted by dwinn at 12:30 AM

You're The Man Now, Dog!: Sometimes less is more.
posted by dwinn at 5:10 PM

Anti-Telemarketing Script
posted by dwinn at 3:42 PM

Asia Carrera fixes a computer topless (not safe for work). The web is wonderful.
posted by dwinn at 5:48 PM

Daler Mendhi is India's greatest pop star. Read his bio. Listen to Tunak Tunak Tun. You won't be disappointed.
posted by dwinn at 5:31 PM

I have fully recovered from my debilitating sickness!

Lately my time has been taken up with things like chores, grocery shopping, and the like; I have been playing a lot of Diablo II again as well as Grand Theft Auto 3 (in which I am stuck on finding 99 of 100 Hidden Packages). Today has been especially productive, dealing with the Ameritech guy in getting our phone line fixed as well as arranging for Ford to fix the flaking paint on my truck.

"Do Your Know Me?" Test Answer:
"To smack you over the back of the head."

Yes, I realize that taken out of context that seems insensitive, cruel and hurtful. I'm pretty sure maybe only one of those truly applies.
posted by dwinn at 1:42 PM

I don't often agree with Jim Rome, but when it comes to bashing Phil Jackson, he's right on the money.
posted by dwinn at 2:06 PM

Oh I's been sick as a dawg.
posted by dwinn at 6:37 PM