Listening: This Christmas by Vonda Shepard
Reading: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskill
News of the Day:
- Project:Possibility puts very smart engineering minds to work on very good causes. A capital way to spend money, time, and energy, and beats many of our current priorities.
- Barack Obama: Senator, President, Model
- Sock and Awe lets you throw shoes at Bush. It's like whack-a-mole, but infinitely more gratifying.
- OilyBoy: a) Japanese magazine aimed at older men; b) the kid who replaced the grease monkey; c) something not fit to print.
- Revenge of the Checkout Lady - a tell-all about the shitteous life of a cashier. I will vouch for that. (The musical adaptation is a bit unnecessary.)
Gavin and Stacey return for a 3rd season!!!
Word of the Day: Harmonious Demolition
Only in China....I picked this one up from a BBC Documentaries report from White Horse Village in China. They are razing this hamlet and forcing it to grow into a city. How is this done, you ask? No one knows; it doesn't even work on paper. In any case, part of the plan includes knocking everything down to make way for something bigger, better, and more Marxist with Chinese characteristics.
