Lately, I’ve been sharing the Ten on Tuesday prompts with Tall Paul when they come out (a week in advance – thank you, Yano!), and some of them are more inspiring for him than they are for me. This week’s topic, “10 Things to Do When It’s Too Hot to Go Outside,” was one that I thought he’d weigh in on, because he’s an expert. He avoids hot weather as much as possible – and […]
Weekend Assignment #226: A musical interlude of sorts, or “Jukebox Brain”
This week, Karen asks the musical question: Weekend Assignment #226: Is there a song that you’re particularly enjoying at the moment, that’s on heavy rotation on your iPod, the CD player in your car, or just in your head? If so, what is it? If not, what was the last song you were really into? Extra Credit: What song, if any, has been playing in your head today, and you really wish it would stop […]
The Saturday Review of Scraps
The Bulletin Board: *********I haven’t moved, but my blog has a new address: it’s now being published on its own domain. Welcome to www.3rsblog.com! I’ve changed the Feedburner settings, and bookmarks and links will redirect from the old address, but if you notice any problems, please bring them to my attention! ********Submissions for the August Bookworms Carnival, Edition 14 are already coming in – thanks, early birds! The deadline is Friday, August 8th. Please e-mail […]
TBIF – Thank blog it’s Friday!
Tuesday Thingers (hosted by Marie of The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s topic: Recommendations. Do you use LT’s recommendations feature? Have you found any good books by using it? Do you use the anti-recommendations, or the “special sauce” recommendations? How do you find out about books you want to read? I’ve glanced over the Recommendations that pop up on my LibraryThing home page, but really haven’t followed up on any of them. Since they’re based on my […]
At the movies: “The Dark Knight”
The Dark Knight Action/drama, 2008 Welcome back to Gotham City, not exactly the most welcoming of places. The Dark Knight picks up about a year after Batman Begins, and some of Gotham’s citizens believe that things have gotten worse since Batman came on the scene – and at times, Batman himself wonders the same thing. He has his (not very effective) imitators, and his detractors, including Gotham D.A. Harvey Dent. Since he operates as a […]
Random bookworminess and Weekly Geekiness
Thursdays are usually review days around here. Today I’m offering a movie review – because I haven’t managed to finish my current read – but not wanting to stray from books entirely, I’m answering this week’s book-themed “Randomness” meme. Randomness: Bookworms (hosted by Naida) 1. What are you currently reading? Still reading Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon, and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller. It’s a long book, so […]
Weekend Assignment #225: You can’t spell “routine” without “rut
This week, Karen says: “Okay, this one is more participatory than most Weekend Assignments. I’m not just asking you to write something; I’m asking you to do something. Are you up to the challenge?” Weekend Assignment #225: What are you going to do this weekend (or on your next day off) that’s different from what you usually do? Make plans to break out of your usual routine, and tell us what they are. Extra Credit: […]
Change of address!
I haven’t moved, but my blog has a new address: it’s now being published on its own domain. Welcome to www.3rsblog.com! I’ve changed the Feedburner settings, so hopefully this post will be showing up in your feed reader or e-mail just as it usually would. (If you recently saw a bunch of older posts dumped into your reader, it had something to do with the address change/re-set of the feed.) I’ve been monitoring the feed […]
Ten on Tuesday, sort of: Celebrity Edition
This week’s Ten on Tuesday topic, “10 Least Favorite Celebrities,” really isn’t doing much for me. I try to stay away from the entertainment-gossip-oriented websites and TV shows (although having said that, TMZ on TV can be hilarious, mostly because of the snarky voiceovers), which helps limit my exposure to so-called celebrities who may have been on a reality-TV show once or twice, but are now mostly famous for being on gossip websites and in […]
Traveling again…
I’m holding down the fort at Sunshine‘s place today. She issued an invitation a few weeks ago for guest bloggers to contribute posts talking about what’s great about their home states. My current state of California was already spoken for, but this is where it comes in handy to have moved around as much as I have – I was able to but in a bid to post about one of my previous home states. […]
BlogHerCon post-mortem, in absentia
For the record, this is Post #600. Yikes! This past weekend, the annual BlogHer Conference took place in San Francisco. You may have heard about it somewhere – going or nor going to BlogHerCon has been quite the topic of blogversation lately, although no one but me has called it “BlogHerCon,” as far as I know (no, wait, someone has); most peple just call it “BlogHer,” and its “official” short name is “BlogHer08” (this year’s […]
Friday Q&A – this time, it’s a classic
Tuesday Thingers 7/15 – Book-swapping (hosted by Marie of The Boston Bibliophile) Today’s topic: Book-swapping. Do you do it? What site(s) do you use? How did you find out about them? What do you think of them? Do you use LT’s book-swapping column feature for information on what to swap? Do you participate in any of the LT communities that discuss bookswapping, like the Bookmooch group for example? Well, I have to say “yes and […]
