- Air conditioning kicks ass, but if you dress the baby in a shorty sunsuit, you can get by without it.
- My household would run far more smoothly if I used Sam's naptime for chores rather than for farting around on the internet. But my cat will run far more smoothly if I use naptime for some croodle-love instead.
- Snippets of Nixon tape conversations are really annoying, but I can put up with it to have my husband spend time next to me while working on the diss.
- My vast experience with blackouts has prepared me well for dealing with one--I ordered dinner before everyone else realized we'd be out of power all night, and I gathered together all my candles and matches well before the gloaming set in.
- When a small cat is lonely enough, she'll sleep upstairs with her mom and dad even though it's hot as blazes up there.
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Annie Dillard: The Living: A Novel
Currently reading.Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Part feminist outcry against the Islamic regime in Iran, but mostly a love letter to books. Nafisi looks at Lolita, Daisy Miller, The Great Gatsby, and Pride and Prejudice not only as works of literature themselves, but through the lens of students during the heyday of the Islamic revolution. My only caveat? It helps to have read the books she discusses.Lauren Weisberger: Everyone Worth Knowing
I picked this up at the airport. After hearing about my grandmother's death I just couldn't deal with "Silent Spring," and this seemed less objectionable than Nora Roberts or Michael Crichton. I finished it, mainly to see if it could really keep up the flow of utter awfulness and banality right up until the end. Easily the worst book I've read since that romance novel about the Corgi. Avoid at all costs.Amy Stewart: Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
One of the most interesting nonfiction books I've read recently. Stewart examines the cut-flower industry, and you'll never look at flowers the same way again. A must-read for anyone who buys flowers.
Listening
She moved through the fair
Jean Redpath: First Flight
Redpath does the most evocative version of this song I've ever heard.I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell II- Queen Jane
Custer LaRue: Custer LaRue Sings The Daemon Lover Funeral Ikos
Christopher Robinson: Tavener: Song for Athene/Svyati
One of the most starkly beautiful melodies I've ever heard, this meditative chant on death and the afterlife stuns me anew every time I hear it.
Love this list! How long did you lose power? The last storm left us without it for 2.5 hours. Can you believe how dependent we are on A/C? It sure does kick ass.
Posted by: Judith | June 10, 2008 at 12:36 AM