We've been holding out on getting an HD TV, partially because we're cheap-asses and partially because all the different TV types and technology interfaces are still baffling. Thanks to the shenanigans of our 4 year old, we also now need to replace my aging (and now body damaged) PowerBook. So now we're leaning…

My Mormon friends in high school went to an LDS camp every summer. They described it as hiking, swimming, campfires, etc. It never occurred to me that it was serving another purpose.

6. Amber Ludwig had "the compact, athletic body of a seal". Huh?

I wasn't particularly fond of Benny or Marcia, but for some reason I liked the idea of the two of them ending up together. Actually I'll call Benny my least favorite character, that gossipy old hen.

At the beginning I felt a little sorry for her: she'd come up with some good ads and she'd been promoted so our view of her was clearly biased by jealousy when "we" were talking about her. But by the end of course she'd made a spectacle of Janine, left a fake bloody scalp on Benny's desk and led a vigorous anti-Joe…

There is very little internal gossip where I work, too. I'm a scientist and work mostly with other scientists and engineers. While reading this book, I wondered if, true to stereotype, we really are more likely to be lost in our own little worlds, happily working away in our labs, oblivious to the little dramas…

Yeah, I thought of lawyers less than 10 seconds after hitting the post button. To whine more specifically, people in my profession are often depicted doing things that are not now and likely will never be _technically_feasible. The technical barrier to anyone creating a "croaking girl-thing" makes the morality of…

I refuse to see this. Is any one else's profession maligned in fiction as often as mine?

I think the odds are pretty good that Nathan will refer to "human garbage" in each report.

That was fantastic stza. You've raised the bar. Even I could have come up with a pancake joke.

I also suspect the album got a boost from confused Twilight fans. Who wouldn't want to spend a weekend drinking horchata with Rob P.? Wouldn't he look just adorable in a balaclava?

I'm more than half way through but am waiting for that "just can't put this down!" phase to kick in. It will kick in, right? I like the book, but the way it goes in circles makes me sleepy.

My husband did propose to me at a romantic-ish location with a ring, but I had already booked the church and reception hall . . .

As long as you're reviewing albums from last July . . .
why don't you do Fanfarlo's Reservoir?

Yes, Geek Love is the only book we've done by a female author, and all of the authors have been white.

My only consolation is that neither of you jackasses will bother to show up for the book discussions.

Great, 3 more books by dudes.
And no, this isn't a failed thirdsies attempt.

"Hearing Neon Bible for the first time" is on my best-of list too. Listening to that album still feels like a religious experience to me.

You can always trust the Belgians to deliver on a high quality giant waffle joke.

The Informant! is also my favorite. Really, any movie whose plot is set in motion by viral contamination of an industrial fermentation has my vote.