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“Two Mai and two human teenagers sat in a booth at the Washington Diner, silently drinking coffee or hot chocolate, picking at a large order of cold, greasy fries topped with thick bright ketchup that reminded everyone there too much of blood. The fluorescent lights made everything harsh and lifeless.”
from The Stolen: The Nine Lives [...]
Hey-howdy! So just a few thoughts and musings today, a bit of news, and a couple of new links.
Caffeine and a new appreciation thereof - so you may remember that way back last June, I was really sick for a while. One of the side effects of that was that I pretty much completely shrugged [...]
Thanks to my friend John, we have an answer to yesterday mystery 80’s women trivia. The band was Tu, a one-hit wonder sister act from Toronto (so if anyone outside of Canada had managed to get it, I would have been amazed). Their song was called Stay with Me — and through the magic of [...]
Okay - Google has failed me and I turn to anyone reading the blog who might know the answer to this. We were at an 80’s party at a club over the weekend and they played a looping sequence of iconic 80’s images on various monitors: Family Ties, Facts of Life, Grace Jones, Punky Brewster, [...]
Ah, the Christmas season!* And in this particular instance I feel no need to be inclusive and mention “the holiday season” because I want to share my thoughts on something that is, so far as I know, uniquely Christmas related.**
Fruitcake.
I love fruitcake. I love the density, the almost but not quite too sweetness of it, [...]