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Horrible

My hometown. Not far from where Jenn lives. Fire is bad.

Captain William “Billy” Hutchinson, 48, 30 years of service;
Captain Mike Benke, 49, 20 years of service
Captain Louis Mulkey, 34, 11.5 years of service
Engineer Mark Kelsey, 40, 12.5 years of service
Engineer Bradford “Brad” Baity, 37, 9 years of service
Asst. Engineer Michael French, 27, 1.5 years of service
Firefighter James “Earl” Drayton, 56, 32 years of service
Firefighter Brandon Thompson, 27, 4 years of service
Firefighter Melven Champaign, 46, 2 years of service.

Donations for the families are being accepted.

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The Good Fairies of New York

2007, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Queer, Sci Fi and Fantasy / denise

Heh. TW reserved The Good Fairies of New York when she heard one of the characters in it has Crohn’s. TW read it and was amused. I read it and was also amused. I love the alternative “teen” type fairies with colored hair and ripped kilts trying to corrupt the young fairies of Scotland. Awesome. The fairy war was a little much and the darn “poppy” chase was a lot much. Other than that, awesome. And like Neil Gaimon, I have no idea why this hasn’t been made into a play or a movie.

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PeaceBang!

Daily Dose, GLBT, Religion / denise

I read PeaceBang all of the time and I always enjoy her posts. I even sometimes flip over to her special “beauty blog” even though it’s totally not my thing. I just like PeaceBang. This post and this post are part of why. It’s not just that she wrote PRIDE posts, it’s how she wrote the PRIDE posts.

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There’s still time…

1 Comment / Melissa Ferrick, Sights & Sounds / denise

For y’all to chip in and buy this for me for my birthday.

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DUC*K

2007, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Queer / denise

I love Rickey and G-man! When I reserved D*U*C*K I didn’t realize it was about the great chefs of New Orleans, I just knew it was the first book Poppy Z Brite had written post Katrina. What a pleasant surprise. This one was shorter, not as fleshed out and full as the others (The Value of X, Soul Kitchen, Liquor, Prime), but very good and lots of fun. I am looking forward to Dead Shrimp Blues.

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The Camel Bookmobile

2007, Books in Bed, Fiction, Library, Women / denise

The Camel Bookmobile finally made it to the top of my TBR list. I’ve been looking forward to reading it for ages… even though I remember TW almost throwing it across the room after reading the last few pages.

Well. Great book. ‘Til you get to the last few pages. I don’t need a happy ending but damn did we have to have THAT ending? I mean really, was that necessary?

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Daily Dose of Cupcakes

1 Comment / Cupcake Toppers, Daily Dose / denise

These bird candle holders are a little different from my usual cupcake topper ideas. I like them. I think RJ would really like them. Since I have missed RJ even more over the last 10 days than I normally do, it seemed fitting to suggest them.

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The Rossetti Letter

2007, Books in Bed, Fiction, Women / denise

The Rossetti Letter was a pretty good bit of fiction about the Spanish Conspiracy. And courtesans! And historians. And parenting teens! And Venice. (exclamations behind those of most interest to me)

Fun easy and interesting.

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Win a ticket to BlogHer

Daily Dose / denise

You’ve got two more chances at free tickets to BlogHerCon. Scrapblog and Ask Patty are running contests. Get your scrapblog page up and write a post about cars. You could win!

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Again with the knitting

2007, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Queer, Women / denise

Yesterday I blogged World Wide Knit in Public Day and today I’m back to review another knitting book. I’m still NOT a knitter.

The Knitting Circle is the best “knitting book” I’ve ever read. Loved every character and every word and I did not want the book to end.

Men and women dealing with grief and loss and fear through knitting and through relationships created and strengthened through the knitting circle. There are some happy endings. Some not so happy endings. Some endings that are both happy and not.

Loved it. Read it. (Thanks for recommending it, mom!)

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