Wedding belles, written 1 week ago, What a wedding! I am just about recovered from a very hectic weekend indeed. It all began on Friday when I was still dithering about which outfit to wear to the Indian wedding celebration on Saturday. I kept trying the two choices on, asking opinions of anyone who...

Telly - 90210, written 15 hours ago, What have I been watching?Well, my main guilty pleasure at the moment is the new series of 90210. Picture The O.C. Now take away the cool geek character and add a handful of cronies from the original series and cake them in makeup. That's what the new 90210 is. I...

Ubuntu Intrepid Upgrade On Eee PC DOA, written 6 days ago, I spent some time today upgrading my Eee PC 8G from Ubuntu Hardy to Intrepid. Over 700MB?s of updates that seemed to go flawlessly apart from a couple dependencies for k3b which I quickly sorted out. 2 hours later, after the reboot I get to ...

You mean publishing houses actually matter?, written 1 week ago, I?m as bad with publishing houses as I am with directors or producers of movies. If they were titled things as easy as Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, perhaps I?d have more hope.This is a varied anthology - there ...

Issue 1, Take 2, written 1 day ago, When I wrote about Issue 1 yesterday, I noted it with amusement, but didn't give it much thought, because even as a piece of conceptual art it didn't really seem to me to be doing much that was particularly new in an interesting way. Steve Shaviro thinks that may ...

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distinguished relatives., written 3 hours ago, Please take no offense...Our nine year old, M, is a master at the art of excuse and justification.One day, about a year ago, he was pushing past me to get to the garbage under the sink, so I said "Excuse...

First Book of the First Month, written 4 days ago,      Let me just reiterate how excited I am about the Book Club. And the fact that this is our first month! I'm thrilled! Now I know I'm a day late in getting this posted, but I hope ya'll will forgive me. So here are some of the details: For t...

Mailbox Monday - On time!!, written 1 day ago, Hooray! I am actually getting my post up on Monday this week - pretty exciting. I feel like things are starting to look up here in my crazy world. =)Only one book to talk about this week, and it's not technically even for me -I received Paul of Dune by ...

The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes by the Editors of McSweeney's, written 1 week ago, With a wonderfully entertaining introduction by John Hodgman, The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes is an interesting mix of hilarious and "huh?" collected from McSweeney's Internet Tendency. As wi...

The Tutu Ballet, written 5 hours ago, TITLE: The TuTu BalletAUTHOR: Sally O. LeeDATE: September 5, 2008This is such a cute children's book. Sally the author is also the illustrater. She has written and illustarted 21 books. This is her newest one.Sally takes us to the forest where the students are a...

travel the world (from a comfy chair) Book Club. Want to join us??, written 13 hours ago, I want to welcome you to join me in reading The God of Small Things this month, with my online book international book club. We will start discussing it on the 15th of this month, but you do not need to be fini...

Dear John McCain,, written 14 hours ago, Dear John McCain,This is a sincere Thank You note for being the man to put my heart, soul, time and money back into politics.My beloved late husband, Hunter S. Thompson, gave me the political bug years ago. And to honor his spirit, I was asked to blog for sev...

Come, my pretended judges, written 2 days ago, Dear Diane Purkiss, Here we are again, as promised, now that I've finished The Civil War: A People's History, all 570 pages of it. My reading journal records that it has taken me just over 3 months, which makes it...

October Book Giveaway, written 6 days ago, Last month I offered a copy of "The Space Between Us" by Thrity Umrigar to one of the Book Trout's loyal readers and Carolsue in the lucky winner. Congratulations Carolsue!This month I unearthed a signed copy of Julia Alvarez' "In the Name of...

Go Back to Alaska, written 5 days ago, A woman against choice is no friend to women. Vote Change, Vote Obama.

22 Listworthy Films, written 4 weeks ago, Batman: Gotham Knight (Animated) (2008)Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) Born Into Brothels (Documentary) (2003) The Bourne Identity (2002) Cache (2005) Capturing the Friedmans (Documentary) (2003) The Dark Knight (2008) Eastern Promises (2007) In th...

separated at birth?, written 2 days ago, With profuse apologies in advance, I would like to make the case that our very own J. Tucker has an hyperinflationary alter-ego... You be the judge.Exhibit A:Exhibit B:Video source: