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Nice simple, rustic dinner tonight - Deviled eggs and salad (both egg salad and salad-salad). yum.

Speaking of simple and Rustic - Watched "The F word" with Gordon Ramsey... it's out of rotation... just isn't compelling at all. Kitchen Nightmares UK is the best of his lot so far, I think.

Happy Birthday, Pac-Man!

A bare trickle of rain tonight... cool weather tomorrow?

Washington DC's Pedestrian Master Plan - good thing, given about 700 pedestrians a year are hit by cars in the District, which factors out to about two a day.

Book meme - Don't hold these to me too tightly - "favorite" is a tough word regarding something as vast as literature.

1. Hardcover or paperback, and why?
Paperback - portability... I'd even prefer e-book format over that, if the reader is comfortable.

2. If I were to own a book shop I would call it…
Salmagundi or Argosy

3. My favorite quote from a book (mention the title) is…

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury -

It was this then, the mystery of man seizing from the land and the land seizing back, year after year, that drew Douglas, knowing the towns never really won, they merely existed in calm peril, fully accoutered with lawn mower, bug spray and hedge shears, swimming steadily as long as civilization said to swim, but each house ready to sink in green tides, buried forever, when the last man ceased and his trowels and mowers shattered to cereal flakes of rust.

4. The author (alive or diseased) I would love to have lunch with would be…
Ray Bradbury... about 35 years ago.

5. If I was going to a deserted island and could only bring one book, except from the SAS survival guide, it would be…
Some sort of large compilation volume, if I were to go against the spirit of the question. Just one? Robinson Crusoe might be a too ironic choice. Actually, I think I'd prefer to take a blank book, and as many writing implements as I could.

6. I would love someone to invent a bookish gadget that…
Had a decently sized screen and was comfortably portable.

7. The smell of an old book reminds me of…
back wen I worked a the library... hiding spots among the deep stacks in the 780s.

8. If I could be the lead character in a book (mention the title), it would be…
I'll have to lead with Doug in Dandelion Wine, again.

9. The most overestimated book of all times is…
Joyce's Ulysses would be high on that list, at least for me.

10. I hate it when a book…
holds its own just fine, and then the author (or worse, some other author) writes a really terrible sequel... or series of sequels. see: Ender's Game or Pern Series for example.

1 year ago - BHK back, Danny plans, bro invisible, google bought youtube, elephant crackup (long article), sure 'nuff yes I do, YOP!

2 years ago - leeches, reclusive, aoe3, bear-cave, W&G thoughts, halloween movies, scotto needs/wants, red hot riding hood, faking depth of field in photoshop, tom cruise - corinthian, things about me list, yahoo podcast search, shy street penguin

3 years ago - long bets, 'ween, dark victoria, Frederik Ruysch body part dioramas, google translator

4 years ago - Newt bips me, penis snatcher beaten up, hulk closes for a while, and a nice chat. palm drawing

5 years ago - scary dreams, palm drawings, I'm 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon, moon pies 100 years old, starry night, From Beyond

6 years ago - egg recipe, dorkgirl sends me treats, recherche / chichi, evil news, me no likey xp, birding talk with hala

7 years ago - doc trip, duck echoes, Rhino crackheads, sea chantey, memes, shel silverstein