Archive | November, 2006

My Beloved Skeleton Man

November 29, 2006

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My Beloved Skeleton Man

I was just thinking that there’s something severely fucked up about this cover. It looks like a Grimms Faerie Tale where the virginal princess is swept away by an anorexic dude in a skirt. Oh, princess, don’t run away with him! He lives on blood and embalming fluid and sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber! Shouldn’t [...]

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Boo and Yay

November 27, 2006

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Boo and Yay

So I finally got it. Yay! And it looks just like this picture. Yay! And it reads RTFs like a dream! Yay! And PDFs too. Yay! But not that well. Boo! And the screen looks just like paper. Yay! And I have to convert every single one of my PDFs to RTFs so I can [...]

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Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

November 25, 2006

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Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Grade: A I’m one of those readers who’s pretty good at figuring out the killer after only a few chapters (some of us can knit, some can play the piano with their toes, I’m mothafucking Columbo, yo). Sometimes I can pinpoint the killer from reading the back blurb. It can be really frustrating to know [...]

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My Wizard Boyfriend Harry

November 23, 2006

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My Wizard Boyfriend Harry

I’ve had a thing for Harry Dresden from the very first book. He’s just so clever and funny and nice, yet he’s a flawed character, too. I enjoy his interactions with his little skull sidekick and the will-they-or-won’t-they relationship he has with Murph, the police detective he often works with. But dude, I’ve never looked [...]

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What Ever Happened to Natalie Imbruglia

November 21, 2006

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What Ever Happened to Natalie Imbruglia

Hey, you guys, remember that “Torn” chick? Like when that song first came out, everyone was singing, I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel… I’m cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor but then the radio stations wouldn’t stop playing it and every time you heard it, it made [...]

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