Peruse Blog Entries Past:
*Great Grandmother's Pound Cake and Castle Bundt
*San Diego County Fair: The Lure of the Collections
*Random Songs About Tea
*Bizarre Foods and the Bugs
*70s Song Nostalgia: Bad Leroy Brown and Angie Baby
*Iceplants are not Triffids
*Photo Expedition: Raymond Chandler Home in La Jolla
*Random Candy Linkage - Must Try a Twisted Someday, and a Dragon's Beard
*YouTube Retro Post! Oh Mighty Isis! Sleestaks! Lidsville! Bugaloos! Banana Splits!
*Balboa Park at Night: Fun without a Tripod
*Pirates Cove Coffee and Ocean Beach
*Random Linkage: Twitterings, Vader Cake, Zombie Construction Signs. And the Horror of Sandra Lee
*Saturday Photo Throwdown - Sign People and Lurid Flamingos
*Planning a Raymond Chandler Evening...er Afternoon
*Reading While Being Ill: Sherlock Holmes, Raymond Chandler, and Augustus Hare, Among Others
*Stonehenge II and Easter Island Moai in Hunt, Texas
*Love of Peanut Butter, and Confessions of a Picky Eater
* Minotaur with a Trident or a Centaur with a Crossbow?
* Reading Antonia Fraser and Thinking of Orangeries and Overstock
* Nostaglia for Lite Brite and the Maldroid Earworm
* Latvian Leaf Hats and Straw Boys and Bears
* The Grim Story of the Bath School Disaster"
* Food Blogging, and Robert Rodriguez Cooks a Mean Breakfast Taco
* A Visit to Queen Califia's Magical Circle, Niki de Saint Phalle's Sculpture Garden
* Holiday Eating in San Diego
* Keep on Trying Til You Run Out of Cake: Why Jonathan Coulton Rocks
Listening to This Week:
Listening to Now:
Reading Offline:
Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments
by Alex Boese
Really odd book about various "scientific" experiments, some gruesome, many just insane. Have't yet gotten to the elephants on acid part, but am definitely freaked out by the "let's decapitate an animal and try to keep just the head alive" chapter. Ugh.
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Nancy Milford
I never read much of Millay before, but Milford wrote a really interesting biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, so I was interested to see her next book. Still in the first chapter, but the prolog was amusing in itself. I always appreciate reading the background of how the author started on the book.
Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain
I gave this to Jon as a gift a while back and only just recently remembered I never did borrow and read it myself. Am very amused so far. Sadly it's not the updated edition I've linked to - preface in our copy's dated Nov. 2000. Wonder what's been added/changed/corrected.
The New Kings of Nonfiction
by Ira Glass
Collection of nonfiction articles previously published in various magazines. Bought a while back in an airport and there are still a few articles I haven't finished reading. I really liked the Bill Buford article that became Among the Thugs.
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Batgrl is a pop culture junky who loves to mess about with cameras and video games. And is constantly amused by Jon, who she did honest and truly did meet online. Though she's been blogging since the '90s, evil sp@m'rs managed to break the old blog, and thus there's only more recent stuff here. (No great loss, actually!)
