February 2009
17 posts
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)
6 The Bible ()
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 Nineteen...
Ray LaMontagne - Let it Be Me
There may come a...
itunes game
Number of Songs: 1,166
Number of Albums: 298
Most Recently Played Song: “California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade/Ask” - Colin Meloy
Most Played Song: “Moon over Marin” - Matthew Good
Most Recently Added Album: The Ghost of Fashion - Clem Snide
First Song Alphabetically: “Accept Yourself” - The Smiths
Last Song Alphabetically: “Zero Refills” -...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Modest Mouse (18)
The Smiths (13)
Clem Snide (9)
Joshua Radin (5)
Indigo Girls (4)
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The mystery of Ireland's worst driver →
“It is quite embarrassing to see that the system has created Prawo Jazdy as a person with over 50 identities.”
Clem Snide - Weird
You tell me you’re different
You tell me you’re strange
You tell me that there is something wrong with your brain
So your mother found God
And your dad likes to drink
But you’re not weird as you’d like me to think
You painted your sneakers
You talk to yourself
You won’t eat with me cause you care for your health
Well you wrote me a poem
And it...
There was a Giant
cantseestars:
There was a giiiiannnt. She was playing soccer, she kicked a plane up in the sky. I won cause I was small.
“I can’t do it,” said the giant, “but I have already won.”
We had a wedding, because I had won. Not a wedding “you do”, a plan that giants can’t play soccer cause they’re big. I won every game of soccer with the giants. I spank their bums in soccer.
“Hey!” But I didn’t...
How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white... →
“The 14th Amendment didn’t revoke Shawn Gardner’s natural citizenship— it gave him protection under the law, and paved the way for another black man to judge his case. There’s no international cabal of Jewish bankers conspiring against him— one of his lawyers, a professor at Howard University Law School, is Jewish. The secret histories and grand conspiracies that have fueled decades of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-8) →
Andrew Bird (19)
Blitzen Trapper (18)
Ray LaMontagne (15)
Sufjan Stevens (14)
The Weepies (7)
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The Serious Need for Play →
“On August 1, 1966, the day psychiatrist Stuart Brown started his assistant professorship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 25-year-old Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower on the Austin campus and shot 46 people. Whitman, an engineering student and a former U.S. Marine sharpshooter, was the last person anyone expected to go on a killing spree....
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-1) →
The Beatles (17)
Iron & Wine (15)
The Decemberists (14)
Colin Meloy (10)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (10)
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