Long time, no post

I abandoned my blog in 2011, because I thought I had nothing to say...or was it because I got bored?  Posting about being bored is the equivalent of facebook posts that read "eating mac & cheese": meaningless.  Not to be outdone by banal fb posts, I offer this:

"look: I've posted something" 

That's right: my birthday:

Overnight Patchy Frost Lo 33 °F

Thursday Morning Frost Hi 61 °F

Thursday Night Patchy Frost Lo 30 °F

Friday Morning Frost Hi 64 °F

Friday Night Clear Lo 41 °F

Saturday Sunny Hi 76 °F

Saturday Night Mostly Clear Lo 51 °F

Sunday Sunny Hi 80 °F

Sunday Night Clear Lo 50 °F

Hazardous weather condition(s): Freeze Warning Hazardous Weather Outlook Overnight: Patchy frost after 3am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 33. Light east wind. Thursday: Patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 61. North wind between 3 and 11 mph. Thursday Night: Patchy frost after 1am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 30. Calm wind. Friday: Patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph. Friday Night: Clear, with a low around 41. Light south wind. Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 76. Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 51. Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 80. Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 50. Columbus Day: Sunny, with a high near 82. Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 49. Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 72. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 69.

I need a laugh

These made me laugh, but I've already read them...and as we all know, reading for pleasure doesn't come to the top of the list this semester.  You should read them though: 

                                                                                                                                    


And while you are picking these up, let's not forget that it's my birthday soon, and that I will have time to read over the Christmas break: 

Life is good:

In the beautiful reference room, listening to my favorite tunes, and typing a paper of Phillis Wheatley and rhetorical use of equivocation.  Does it get better?  Only if I had a beer! 

I'm back

Since I am on extended hiatus from the demon that is Facebook (and since I'm informed that I have a world-wide tribe..and really, isn't Dianistan a world-wide republic?), I have decided to re-open the bloggishness and engage in bloggofocationosity. 

Today's fun: 

"I've been accused of consorting with Satan!

Pick a scenario and get an outcome. 

Post your selection and outcome!  

Click here to find out your fate!  

 

(PS: like the premise of witchcraft accusations...and honestly, the whole of 1600s New England Puritanical ideology / theology, don't expect it to make sense... especially if you are female).

Vonnegut Explains.

Graphical representation of the stories, and why Shakespeare was the MAN.  What a loss for literature and for life, when he passed...Vonnegut, I mean.


If you are a Vonnegut fan, here's a site where you can get a wicked-cool (Boston idiom) KV shirt, along with others; I bought one and people look at it as say "Kurt...Cobain?".   

                                         

                                                       

Ummmmm NO!!!  


We live in a falling world, folks...and yes, I meant falling...

Books I think are worth your time

Wasting time is a specialty of mine...except when it comes to books and short stories. Don't waste your time on LAME authors (hint hint hint: DH LAWRENCE), or on novels by authors who later get so experimental and obscure that you wonder if they are dealing with dementia, or on poetry that is so abstruse that you feel dumb when reading it.


This is a partial list of reading that will not waste your time.  The links are included, in case you want to lick them up at Amazon. post your reviews / comments about the titles on the list, if you like!

"CLASSICS"...whatever that term means nowadays.... Some you will recognize, some may be new. If you haven't read the titles you recognize - don't. Read the titles you have no idea about and be surprised :)

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Dombey & Son - Charles Dickens
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston
Death Comes for the Archbishop  - Willa Cather

Titles that belong on the "classics" list: 
Cane - Jean Toomer
The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
HIS Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman


Will be classics as soon as the literary geniuses of the world realize that works in translation don't suck and belong in the so-called Literary Canon:


The Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavich (male of female edition are the same, save for one paragraph) 
My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk



Happy Reading!