October 2008 Archives
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Apparently yesterday was World Animation Day. The National Film Board is celebrating this special day with a 13-city tour of Get Animated!, a series of free public screenings from the NFB's Oscar-winning animation studios. Get Animated! will showcase amazing new creations from Canada's public producer, for young and old, from October 22 to November 12, 2008. They have an adorable and fun cartoon of the life of a mother hen. It's amazing how much emotion and humor is conveyed using no dialogue. Well done.
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With the rest of America. I've never seen most of these shows, and only regularly watch House.
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I have always been so in love with tea and the ritual of tea drinking. Something about the delicate cups, with the string and little tag hanging over the side made my heart aflutter. Drinking always seemed so romantic to me. So feminine. So... British. The problem has always been that, well, I don't like tea. I've never actually drank dishwater, but I imagine that it tastes very similar to the cups of "tea" I have tried to drink in the past. I've tried herbals, blacks, greens, iced and hot. Yuck. Hot water with no flavor. Or worse, dilute flavor.
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There is nothing in the world like the internet for taking you down ratholes for hours and hours. Dooce just Twittered about Dee Synder, which of course prompted me to do a quick Google search to see what she and Leta were talking about. Oh. HE'S Dee Synder. Let me explain. I have vivid memories of being in a Sears outside of Denver when I was in 3rd grade or so, wandering around the music section, when I saw this album cover: This photo scared the pants off me. Seriously. I couldn't make sense of it, my brain would not
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(Cause I'm a sucker for book lists...) The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (I'm 1 book behind still) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering
