It's Fall, there's a distinct nip in the air. It's rainy and cold. My office was downright chilly today.

I got home at 8, and was greeted at the door by the distinctive smell of the dust toasting on my radiators. The heat is on!

I grew up in a cold house. I lived in underheated dwellings my whole life, until I moved to DC. Utilities included: T-shirts and bare feet in winter. It's decadent and wrong, I know. But I love it.
8:42:48 PM    please comment []

Today, I am inaugurating the BLoW. Yes! You guessed it! The Belly Laugh of the Week.

Now it's not as if I'm going to be handing out these thinks weekly. No no no. No: this award recognizes those who have provided me with enough belly laughs to LAST ME A WHOLE WEEK. No easy accomplishment, I assure you.

I give you: Things my girlfiend and I have argued about.

I laughed until I cried. Tears of recognition and joy. Oh the humanity!

My thanks to Sour Bob for the original link. Go read. You can thank me later.
1:20:24 PM    please comment []

Moby has started a book club as part of his current World tour.

He wants fans to bring along second-hand books to swap....He told The Sun: 'When someone finishes a book they put it in a little box and when someone else wants a new book they look into the box and find one.

Ozzy Osbourne used to snort ants. Led Zeppelin had sex with hookers on private planes. And I start a book club. Because one can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a book.' [Ananova, via LISNews.com, via The Shifted Librarian]

In case you're interested, the musician also keeps an online diary.

[via Seb's Open Research]
12:29:57 PM    please comment []

Those who treat self-knowledge as though it were self-indulgence not only walk in darkness, they spread their own darkness against the light.

I wish I'd written that, but since I don't have the presence of mind for it, I'm very glad he did.
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