Today’s going to be one of those days, I can feel it already, with a dozen smallish separate workloads (worklets?) piled like rubble against the non-existent door of my office at the day job…
A major embarrassment of my life as a pop-culture geek, TV watcher, animation fan, admirer of anarchic humor, etc. etc., is that [...]

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From whiskey river:
Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that’s on its mind and can’t make itself understood, and so can’t rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
(Mark Twain, The [...]

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Going by the number of hits it gets, evidently my most popular post to date was back in June, titled “How Important Is Reading?” Here are some of the search terms which people have used to find this page:

how important is reading? (with and without the “?”)
is reading important? (ditto)
why is reading important (ditto)
why reading [...]

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Real post coming up later today.
In the meantime… Below is a screen capture (not an actual YouTube video — don’t (duh) bother clicking the Play button) of the amazing video of Christopher Walken dancing to Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice.”
For the actual video, well, the YouTube version (as sometimes happens) has had its “embedding disabled [...]

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Once again, I’m shirking my blogging responsibilities today in order to work on a review, for the Book Book blog. (This time around, it’s Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi’s The Monster of Florence.)
As before, I offer you instead a couple of YouTube treats.
Let’s start with a trivia question. Who said this?
There is nothing quite so [...]

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I may — may — be posting a real entry later today. At the moment, though, I’m focused on preparing my first contribution to the BookBook blog: a review of Dean Koontz’s Odd Hours.
Until then, I offer you a YouTube “Thriller” extravaganza:
First, we have the original video (embedding this video has been disabled on YouTube, [...]

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Per the Speak Coffee to Me blog (great name, that), this Family Guy moment:

Ha!

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