Title Varies Slightly

I don’t watch TV, so I hadn’t seen this until a colleague posted the link as a suggestion for ergonomic seating.
How many back injuries do you think Hawaii Chair users have sustained? And how many household pets have been placed in this chair, that has then been switched on?
I’ll stick with my version of a [...]

I’ve been waiting since 1997. And I’m not good at waiting.
Tonight I unwrapped my shipment from Amazon.co.uk. All seven Harry Potter books, hardcover, in a slipcase. The original British editions.
I belong to a list of of word-lovers, and we had quite a discussion about the changes in the first novel for an American audience. Not [...]

I’ve just gotten my second issue of a magazine for “young people,” which I’m thinking means middle school through high school. But I think I just may subscribe. It’s Logan Magazine, published in Spokane, Washington, and it will set me back $14 for a year’s quarterly subscription of slender issues.
So why would I do that? [...]

When it comes to what you like, you have your own unique tastes. And people don’t really understand them.You can be quite silly at times, but you know when to buckle down and be serious.
Intense and energetic, you aren’t completely happy unless you are bouncing off the walls.
You’re addicted to caffeine. There’s no denying it.
You [...]

North Carolina is just a little colder and darker today — well, so is everywhere. Cartoonist Doug Marlette has died in an automobile crash.
If you don’t know Marlette’s strip Kudzu, please go see it now. I don’t always agree with Rev. Will B. Dunn, but he’s a closer exemplar of the Southern preachers I’ve [...]

Evan Almighty is not a great movie. But it’s not the bomb most critics are claiming it is, either And there are elements of sound Catholic theology among the hit-in-the-pants-with-a-board physical comedy and the cartoony characters.
Congressman Evan Baxter has won office on a platform to change the world; but when God (played by Morgan Freeman) [...]

Darn these Chuzzles. It’s all their fault I no longer blog as often as I might. How dare they be cute and fuzzy and addictive. And the disco/funk soundtrack is also fun.

This week, the guys at Unshelved are doing a library-based riff on those Mac / PC commercials. Send the URLs to your library administrators, trustees, and tech geeks who think “it’s all on the Web.”
INaccessibility note: Sorry, no alt text on the images. Get someone to read them to you, if you need to? [...]

Random comments from my DC conference / tourist experience:

Went to vigil Mass at St. Patrick. Actually heard the priest preach about the sanctity of life! “This passage shows clearly that God is in love with us from the womb. … We must love life from the womb. It is just that simple.”
Today was a day [...]

They say that, under times of stress, we generate endorphins by listening to music from our adolescence. That’s probably why, at this stressful time of year, I couldn’t avoid buying this. Once as a digital download, and then the CD, for sending to a friend of mine.
If you’re already sure I’ve lost it, I won’t [...]