This should have been a bigger news item: Man under 50 has experienced everything there is to experience in the context of his own life.
13To be able to kiss him did not seem to take much—a step forward, the angling of her face. But, in fact, it required rearranging the molecules of every interaction they’d ever had, from the very first day that they met.
This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park
So my second hometown is a weird place. It’s currently in the news because an 80-year-old woman couldn’t bring her American flag in to the Olive Garden for a Kiwanis Club meeting. but thank goodness, the VP is flying in to apologize, so that’s dealt with. This video is an earlier—and more hilarious—moment in the spotlight. Alas, I was already in Nashville when Ed Helms hit Nashville.
Serious Question
Do all babies actually look like Winston Churchill, or did Winston Churchill look like a baby?
"The Post-Modern Prometheus"/"A Single Blade Of Grass" | The X-Files/Millennium | TV Club | TV | The A.V. Club
I’m geeking out over these insightful, well-written X-Files recaps at the AV Club.
So I haven’t posted much about books or bikes on this blog, probably because books are my day job and bikes are the subject of my other blog. Though I’d envisioned this tumblr being a place to talk about these things in a less formal/more anonymous way, it’s ended up being pretty quiet and mostly used to keep up with the tumblr blogs I do like or catalog random things I like that don’t fit elsewhere in my online life.
But! today I’m going to talk about something book-related: An iPhone app that entertained me while getting partial highlights yesterday (something I’ll have to sell a cat/my (future) firstborn to continue doing in future). Who Wrote the Book? isn’t a very difficult game, but it’s totally addictive—you want to see how long you can go on. Also, it incorporates authors from Balzac to Kathryn Stockett, so there’s a lot of variety. This might be the straw that tips me over into the iPhone cult…
