Don't care if this archive's destroyed.

I spent the other night getting some old nonfiction on its merry way along the weeding track. So, yeah, I typed the barcodes from a truck of books into the computer. And then pushed them into the back. Ever pushed a truck stuffed to the gills of heavy, heavy books over carpeting? It's not fun. I kept having ILL flashbacks, hating the microform and Asian language departments at Hillman because I visited them after the bound journals and that floor was carpeted.
I love old nonfiction, though. There's a certain time period, post-WWII to about 1970 I think, that manufactured books that now, with age, have a great smell. The best used bookstores smell this way.
The design of the covers from this time period is good, too.

At my old clerk job, one of my duties was taking the deselected (nice use of librarian-speak, eh?) children's nonfiction out of our catalog. I also got first dibs on any discarded books I wanted. This is why my copies of the first 4 Harry Potters have broken spines, multiple repairs, and look like library property.
Mostly, though, I like out of date nonfiction. I have a book about Communism from the 1960s, written for children. I published a zine at one point of pictures of scientists from 1950s science books for kids.*
One of the sections adult services was weeding was all the old space exploration books. I wanted to adopt them all, even though I suspect I already own at least one of the titles we were getting rid of. Artist's renderings of space travel, the future, and the surface of other planets are something I never get tired of.
Plus, sometimes old books are just fun to mock.

I don't know if you can tell, but every single one of those pictures is identical. A more accurate title would be, 24 Table Saw Projects, All of Which Look Exactly Alike.

I like to think this entire book is dedicated to making sure you don't buy a ring this ugly.

Killer bison!!! I know you can't tell, but it's eyes are totally red, too. And it may or may not be foaming at the mouth. I also like this one because it looks like the awesome caveman hunting/TRex double-sided mural they used to have at the Carnegie Museum (behind the TRex). Its historical inaccuracies always irritated my dad, but I miss it.
It's a short jump from mocking books to mocking authors. For example, if you had written this book:

Wouldn't you choose a bigger horn-thing to hold in your picture?

And here, finally, is the best one. I giggled like a schoolgirl for about twenty minutes over this, plus showed my coworkers and made them giggle. I am, after all, so good at my job because of my stunted maturity.


*I still have copies, if anyone wants one. Darren, I'll trade you one for a nudie pen.

Verse and chapter sat in her inbox.

Billboard

• Why the hell do I never have any damn pens at my desk?
• I need a goddam Ghostwriter pen around my neck.
• Which I never understood:
• Like, if they're all carrying pens around their necks, why can't they also carry a mini version of the alphabet or something, just in case?
• Or maybe I just think waaaay too much about Ghostwriter.
• Wait--is this magazine from months ago, does The Game have a new album out, or am I horribly out of touch?
• Also, Courtney Love's on the cover, too. And sober, apparently.
• Oh, could someone tell me what my myspace picture is right now?
• For some reason, our computers at work aren't 99% of myspace profile pictures.
• Ah, our teen service tech skills are unstoppable.
• Really, I'm just sick of telling teens that it's not us, it's the new filter, and we'll unblock Yahoo games or whatever for you.
• Radio wants teens again.
• "Could Video-On-Demand Be TV's Answer to the Web?"
• Um, I think they mean like The Box.
• Anyone else remember the Box?
• No, of course you don't, because you guys all probably had parents who got cable in the late 80s.
• I, on the other hand, had the extremely grainy, extremely ghetto, Box.
• You'd call and request videos, except they didn't really have a back-up for slow times, so there was a lot of watching, like, 30 seconds of "Push It" and then a scroll of the available videos and my sister and her friends discussing which they wanted to see.
• And a lot of Digital Underground.
• I swear, someone was calling The Box and ordering "Humpty Dance" every hour on the hour for awhile there.
• I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.
• Except I seem to remember them beeping out "busy", because I vaguely remember expending more 11yrold mental energy trying to figure out what the bleeped word was. I assumed it was something much more than just "busy".
• I'm also pretty fondly remembering the In Living Color "Push It" parody right now.
• Which I tried to find on youtube but couldn't.
• Instead, here's "Mr Ugly Man", the Shaggy parody. Which I totally have running through my head right now.
• OK, who watched "Heroes" this week and was weirded out by Mall Cop's reading his wife's mind, realizing she's had a song stuck in her head for ages, and then PLAYING THAT SONG!?
• Mall Cop, I'm totally with you on the using your powers for sexy and/or romantical good, but if I've got a song in my head for weeks, the last thing I want is to hear it.
• During a romantic interlude.
• Of course, that may have more to do with the quality of song I get stuck in my head.
• "Into Your Arms", for example.
• ...new Weird Al...
• Billy Joel's oldest daughter is dressed in a manner appropriate for an old-timey house of burlesque.
• Speaking of old-timey, I'm reading And a Bottle of Rum right now, and boy-howdy! is it great.
• Some colonial keeps describing himself as being "feloniously drunk", which I believe I'm completely stealing.
• Why does the ALA think I want to buy my own subscription to their publications?
• Yes, I've got a $100 and more to drop on School Library Journal for my home use.
• She's very pretty, though.
• Billy Joel's daughter, that is.
• You know how Joel has those freaky, bug-out giant eyes? They work on a girl.
• I kinda like the shoe The Game designed. It's got checks.
• I'm trying to convince Tiff that Claudia's Room needs a Cafe Press store.
• ...all kinds of Australian crap...
• No surprises here: Courtney Love's working with Linda Perry.
• Who isn't getting paid to do so.
• hmmmm...
• New Shins album January 23!
• That's exciting.
• Ack! Jars of Clay!
• What's the name of X's country/sort-of-joke side project?
• Wasn't it The Wreckers?
• 'cause that's what Michelle Branch is calling herself these days, along with some other chippie.

I just can't resist a bandwagon.

Sure, why the hell not?

Extra fun is added by the fact that I don't actually own a computer, so am not entirely sure how I'll post on days when I don't work. It's an adventure!
Yeah, mostly I feel like I've just been neglecting PoBaL, except when I've got a new Billboard. And who knows? This may be the opportunity for me to finally get together my thoughts on Mr Russo, Second Life, etc.

ETA: BEAR SEAL!!! I couldn't resist.

When the 2 for 1’s undone the writers block.

The Bookslut Blog, which I read pretty religiously and is linked over there --->, was talking about the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list, which I guess is a book but is also accessible here.
Here's my annotated list of the ones I've read. I had to contain myself to not include ones where I've just seen the movie, or saw the trailer of the movie in some art house theater. I've also come to the conclusion that my memory sucks ass. I also want to know how come there's no Willa Cather on the list. I love Willa Cather; I read her because Andrea Linnett used quotes from her books in a Sassy fashion story with prairie-ish clothes and petticoats at some point in the early 1990s.

1. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
2. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
3. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
4. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
5. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
6. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
7. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
8. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
9. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
10. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
11. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
12. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
13. Beloved – Toni Morrison
14. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
15. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
16. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
17. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
18. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
19. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan (maybe--I've read some Brautigan, liked it, but don't remember titles)
20. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
21. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs (I think--see Brautigan note)
22. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
23. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke (Did I read this? I don't remember. It's on the list as a reminder to investigate. Handke worked with Wim Wenders a lot.)
24. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
25. 
    One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (half)
26. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
27. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
28. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
30. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
31. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
32. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
33. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
34. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
35. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes (I haven't read, but I should. We watched the movie in my teenpics class. David Bowie dances on a giant typewriter!)
36. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
37. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
38. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille (Um, does it count if I've read Scott Westerfeld's Blue Noon?)
39. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
40. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
41. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin (half)
42. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (the first one--then I decided to sit back and let Peter Jackson do all the dirty work)
43. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis (Tiff? Did we read an excerpt from this in Women and Religion?)
44. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
45. Native Son – Richard Wright
46. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham (Does seeing the MST3K version of the movie count? Is there an MST3K version, or did we just watch it and snark ourselves?)
47. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
48. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake (OK, it looks like there are several of Peake's Gormenghast books on the list. I checked the collected paperback out of the library, read 2 1/2, but don't remember the individual titles. I also can't say enough good things about them, or the BBC miniseries.)
49. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck (Delta 88!)
50. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
51. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (I don't care what anyone says. I really like Steinbeck.)
52. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
53. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston (I don't remember if I read this, or just thought about reading this. A lot of this list is like that--I remember thinking at some point in the last 10-15 years that I should read a certain title, but I can't tell if I followed through, or got distracted by, like, the social history of birth control or something. [also a good book])
54. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain (I haven't read this yet, but the movie version is in my Film Noir Top 5. The scene where the 2 main characters meet for the first time kicks so much ass I can't handle it.)
55. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
56. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
57. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse (only part, I think. Maybe. I think I've read all of Siddhartha, though.)
58. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
59. The Trial – Franz Kafka (Does reading the discussion of it in Jamie Rich's Cut My Hair count?)
60. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse (See?)
61. Ulysses – James Joyce (I have tried. Oh my lord, how I have tried. The last time, I got a librarian to recommend a good readers guide, and I sat there and tried to slog through with both, and then a squirrel grifted me out of half a peanut butter sandwich and I gave up and read The Tin Drum instead. That, incidentally, is completely a true story.)
62. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (I read one Edith Wharton book. I don't remember the title; it was for a summer class I skipped too much of. We also read Beloved, a slave narrative, the first novel written in the new world [Charlotte Temple, aka crap, aka the only book I've actually physically thrown across a room] and the ubiquitous The Yellow Wallpaper. Damn women's studies minor.)
63. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton (That's the one! It felt like reading Little Women, if it was only about Meg and the shallow friends she's got at the beginning of the book.)
64. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (less than half)
65. Dracula – Bram Stoker (You guys should see the sweet-ass illustrated version I bought for the library.)
66. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (You can't see it, but I'm shaking my fist right now.)
67. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (My hatred of this book is a blog post unto itself.)
68. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll (Has anyone read The Looking Glass Wars yet? I was so into the concept, but the book kind of fell flat to me.)
69. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (I was a HUGE Alcott fan at one point. Maybe around 10 yrs old or so? I've read a lot of her books.)
70. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
71. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley (My grandmother loved this book. She had a beautiful illustrated version. I remember sitting with her and looking through it. I wonder where that book is now...someone remind me to ask my mom.)
72. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (I haven't read this, but I could swear this movie was also a novel, and I read that. Maybe I did read Les Mis...)
73. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (I really can't stand Dickens. Hate.)
74. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
75. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
76. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
77. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne (Not yet! My local library has the movie; I think I may watch it this weekend. I'm terribly excited.)
78. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift (maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe?)
79. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

You wax poetic about things pathetic as long as you look so cute.

So, one of my regulars was looking for some books and the internet catalog told him they were "available in CHECKED OUT". I hate our online catalog so very much.
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Billboard October 21

• All kinds of country on the cover.
• Also, this headline:
• "Menudo's New Beginning"
• Which is almost as terrifying as Eddie Murphy and Scary Spice together.
• Which I didn't know about until Tiff informed me today.
• So, uh, thanks Tiff.
• I guess.
• Gah! Barry Manilow in a sequined jumpsuit!
• It's kind of weird that Tower Records are closing, but I was actually never that big a Tower fan.
• I don't know--is there even one in Pittsburgh?
• Was it a closed town, more or less, in the National Record Mart days?
• Menudo are going to have a tv show.
• Wow, Ricky Martin had some cheekbones.
• Aw, Mountain Goats.
• Insound didn't have a digital store 'til now?
• I always just assumed they did.
• I ♥ promo items: here's a condom whose wrapper says "I promote records and save lives."
• That's pretty damn sweet.
• Hee, Robbie Williams in a track suit.
• Poor Robbie--he's the opener to an article entitled "Famous Everywhere Else".
• And here's a scruffy Ricky Martin, who is being honored for his work with children.
• You know, in case you were wondering, I am planning on actually writing real blog posts at some point in the future. I'm just in a bit of a lull right now.
• I'm assuming everyone else knew that Johnny Marr was a Modest Mouse now.
• Before he went Electronic?
• And Dinosaur Jr have reunited as well.
• I suppose I have to order Diddy's new album for the library.
• I wonder if I can make Marissa order it?
• And Sarah McLachlan's releasing a Christmas album.
• Marr looks pretty adorable in this picture right here. I couldn't find the picture online, but you're welcome to look for yourself if you'd like.
• There's no back page on this issue. Looks like someone's removed the advertisement cover.

They're foxy to me. Are they foxy to you?

Billboard October 14

• mmmm, I made this tasty soup last night. I brought some for lunch today.
• Only problem is, I got a new can opener and it really sucks, so it took a lot longer than it should have to get the chicken stock from the can to the pot.
• So, My Chemical Romance is on the cover.
• And, as I'm sure everyone has realized by now, there's a pretty vocal 16yrold mall goth girl inside me.
• I'm not going to apologize for it and, more importantly, I think it really gives me an edge in the whole teen librarianing game.
• But it also means I have a fondness for things like Emily Strange, goth loli Japanese girls, and My Chemical Romance's ridiculous new single.
• You know, "The Black Parade"?
• Plus, you know how I love ridiculous musical messes.
• So I'm pretty happy they're on the cover.
• Also, this is apparently the top 20 women in music issue.
• woooo.
• Oh, and because it's not a Billboard post lately without a discussion of the Killers' attractiveness or lack thereof, I have to mention that I saw them on SNL this weekend. The singer was very much reminding me of that boy I made out with that I mentioned he sometimes looks like. It was nice.
• Plus, he was rocking the nerdy glasses/plaid button-down shirt combo I'm a sucker for during the new single.
• Then there was a costume change that invited badness, so the less said about that the better.
• Wait, who in Jet died?
• The new Beck album won't be on the UK's chart listing because it "contains cover art and packaging that give it an 'unfair advantage.'" Hunh?
• That doesn't make any damn sense.
• Dave Navarro is wearing an ugly cowboyish hat that has a tag on the front saying, DirtBag.
• Classy.
• I opted to not read the My Chemical Romance article.
• I skimmed and figured it would take all the fun out of the band.
• Twisted Sister are the special feature in this issue.
• This issue sure does seem to have a lot of specialness about it.
• My favorite thing about Twisted Sister is that Behind the Music where Dee Snyder talks about how he started a band to stay off drugs.
• He started a band pretty heavily influenced, at least image-wise, by the New York Dolls--
• --to stay off drugs.
• Something about that just doesn't make sense to me.
• I wonder why?
• ♥♥♥♥
• (One of my patrons just showed me how to make hearts. I'me very entertained now.)
• "Every metalhead in the world is going to want the new Christmas album as a Christmas present."
• That seems a bit redundant, no?
• Surely, there must have been a better way for Eddie Kramer to express himself.
• You'll notice I'm avoiding the terrifying notion of a Twisted Sister Christmas album.
• ...and now I can't get "We're Not Gonna Take It" out of my head.
• Oh, no one in Jet died; it was their dad.
• Which is sad.
• However, I still pretty much can't stand them.
• The End.
• Nick Rhodes is 6 Qestions.
• And he's talking about Second Life!!
• Which I keep meaning to blog about, but haven't yet.
• Apparently, Duran Duran have quite the Second Life presence.
• Also, the magazine refers to it as a "virtual reality game", which is nice considering the way libraries and yPulse keep talking about it.
• But that's a whole 'nother PoBaL.
• I hate to say it, but Joan is looking very plasticy and botoxed in this picture here.
• It's frightening.
• Anyone ever notice how much Miss Jay looks like Nile Rodgers?
• Oh, I'm mad at the CW for not repeating ANTM on Sunday nights around here. I work til 8 on Wednesdays!

I've been cataloging and labeling for days now.

I've moved to Blogger Beta. I may be updating the links and messing about with things. I haven't decided yet.
Mostly, I moved because Beta has tags, and, like the good little librarian I am, I want to be able to categorize every little part of my life.
Just think of this post as the key.

Billboard * boys * cheap plastic toys * comics * Craftiness *
emails clearing house * family * Fashion * general nerdiness * hair issues * holidays * In the Year 2000 * Junior/Buddy * Librarianing * Memory Lane * metaPoBaL * movies * movies * nonBillboard random * nonteenlit * politics * public transportation * relocation * Reviewing * stuff about me * Teenlit * television * the jerks * thrifting * travelogue

Like any classification system, it's pretty imperfect. (LC Subject Headings aren't all-encompassing and conclusive!? Heresy!) But, you know, it'll help people skip over the crap they don't want to read.

I'm hungry.

Thanks to everyone who made attempts to cheer me up on MySpace. I'm having a better day today. I also feel the need to mock Shane some more, because he replied to my "I'm having a crummy day" with "I read that without the R," to which I was forced (FORCED! I tell you.) to respond with, If I hand't needed the R, I wouldn't be in such a shitty mood.
There's like a cat hair, or Lamb's Pride Bulky mohair shedding, or bit of my own hair in my eye. It's probably my own hair. This always happens when I part my hair more over the the side than usual, and it's been worse since that last hair cut where the bitch obviously didn't care where I parted my hair, because they lied to me about her experience with curly hair.
Anyway, you might not have guessed it, but this is the post for Billboard September 30. And I really am hungry. I forgot to bring a snack today.

• Goddam, now that hair-thing's on my nose and being all tickly.
• Fergie, will.i.am and some guy named Polow are on the cover. Apparently, there's a big story inside about the making of "London Bridge".
• I can't wait.
• Think that's pronounced like how Lori Petty as Tank Girl said, "Pa-Paw"?
• hmmm, I haven't seen Tank Girl in awhile. It is a good time.
• I wonder if my crew would check out the books?
• Are the books even still in print? I know for awhile they were real hard to find?
• Aw, one of my regulars just came in. He's got the day off b/c of a migraine.
• And that's when the small shreiking child arrived.
• Oh, and Fergie's got a tiara.
• Does Fergie the Duchess get to wear a tiara? Are there rules about that sort of thing?
• I bet there are.
• This picture of The Fray looks like it was Be A Model day at the local mall.
• Merivale Mall? Does anyone but me even remember those books?
• I just ordered the first Tank Girl. We'll see how well it goes.
• And the 3rd Barry Ween, which we for some reason don't have.
• When did Dane Cook become a big time celebrity?
• Does it have anything to do with Jessica Simpson not being as big a draw now, when Employee of the Month needs her, as she was even 2 months ago? Or did he hit before then?
• See, this is why the library needs to pay for me to have cable--so I can know these things. And it'd be cheaper than buying me a computer and internet.
• Bo Bice's pictures always kind of annoy me. He keeps shooting for Magnum and just not making it.
• Speaking of which, Melissa? Is my copy of Zoolander still at your house?
• Ever notice how, from some angles, Fergie looks like a bad mix of Taylor Dane, Tara from "Buffy", and the puppet that used to be on Solid Gold?
• 
• (The puppet is the one in the middle.)
• How come everytime I type "puppet" I typo "pupper"?
• I looked for a Fergie pic, but the bitch looks different in EVERY. SINGLE. PICTURE. It's kind of uncanny.
• Oh, Jordan Catalano, you are so pretty. This is an especially nice picture.
• Kelly Clarkson is shilling for Vitamin Water, or, as I like to call it and all its ilk, Grown-up Kool-aid.
• I'm just not a Scissors Sisters fan. Too much like Elton John for me, I guess.
• Ludacris gets 6 Questions.
• Stace, you wanna share your Luda story?
• Anyone else think JoJo looks like Lindsey Lohan would have if she had been allowed to grow up non-fucked up?
• Aw, Jane Wiedlin is so the most adorable thing ever.
• I think Billy Idol would look a lot less rough if he'd stop trying to still dress and style his hair as though he was still in his Generation X days.

I don't hate them but I know them.

Special shout-outs to Marissa who, after much hilarity and reference-desk-adjacent Stone Temple Pilots singing, burned me a copy of The Crow's soundtrack. Now we just have to buy the damn movie for the library...
Billboard October 7.

• Ray Charles is on the ad cover; Diddy's on the real one.
• Seems a bit backwards to me.
• Anyone else watch "Heroes" last night?
• I'm very quickly becoming addicted to that show.
• Even if Jess was totally a whiny little bitch last night.
• And trying to figure out the logistics of Ikin makes my brain hurt.
• Because, yes, I think too much about these things.
• You know what else I think too much about? This picture here of Justin Timberlake.
• He seems to be hatching his face from a disco ball.
• Add a little eyeshadow and lose that milk mustache, and he looks just a few coke binge/orgies away from throwing Toni Collette over for Ewan MacGregor.
• I do like "Sexyback" though. It's ridiculous.
• Apparently, rock stars are planning tv show's soundtracks now.
• On an upcoming "Laguna Beach", Chris Carrarararaba (bad news) has chosen, among other things, "Lloyd I'm Ready to be Heartbroken" (good news).
• We replace the flesh, which is weak, with steel, which is strong.
• Li'l Steven's using his column to talk up Seymour Stein.
• OK, no one is going to be at all surprised by what I'm about to say, but
• The founder of Touch and Go Records is cute!
• Oh, and speaking of Chicago--Raedy, if you're reading this, go read Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning. It's very cute. You'll like it; the main character sings songs about Hello Kitty, art school boys (it's British), and writing a boy's name on her stomach.
• But, back to the cute boy, we all know I'm just a sucker for the heartbroken-seeming, music-obsessed, writerish boy with a good head of hair stereotype, don't we?
• I just don't get many of them down this way...
• Oh, Christ, Puffy/Diddy/I Don't Care is back.
• I guess he couldn't find anyone else to exploit, so he had to release another one of "his own" albums.
• Dre and Snoop are also working together again.
• This is all because I've been listening to the Crow soundtrack right? All this mid90s shit.
• Speaking of, I'm totally bringing 90s Trivial Pursuit this weekend. It's on!
• New ...and You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead album includes a cover of "Gold Heart Mountaintop Queen Directory".
• Which I now, true to form, am singing in my head.
• I'm totally ordering the new Killers album.
• My collection development technique is unstoppable!
• hunh. That sounds pretty awesome. Maybe I should make a shirt.
• Or have a new email signature or MySpace headline or something.
• There's a new Beck, and there's some guy over by the videos who isn't answering his damn phone.
• Emmylou Harris needs to go wigshopping. Maybe she can take Whitney and Jessica with her.