Magic Bus

1 Comment / Daily Dose, Personality /

Anytime I see a VW bus I point it out – “Look! Magic Bus!” And it makes me smile when a small child sees one before I do and says “Look! Magic Bus!” I want a Magic Bus. I was sad when Naked Jen said goodbye her Magic Bus. And then there’s this little ode to a Magic Bus that makes me smile so much that I have it saved is my feed reader and cannot bring myself to unsave it. I like seeing the Magic Bus every time I read my feeds and I like reading the little passage, too.

I love the Magic Bus.


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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life

1 Comment / 2007, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Queer /

Alrighty then. I finished it last night. It’s chick lit, plain and simple chick lit. I had hoped for something else, not that I don’t like chick lit – I do like chick lit, I love it. I just expected more about people’s obsessions with “things”. I read that before the book arrived and I thought I was in for something a little different. But no. Darn it.

So, about this piece of chick lit. Medwed made a huge change in the general format of chick lit – rather than give her heroine a gay friend or a lesbian friend, she gave her lesbian moms! Unfortunately, she killed the moms before we got to meet them and their demise was really what caused all of the drama.

Well their demise, their lack of a solid will (let that be a lesson to dykes everywhere, including THIS dyke) and Abby’s inability to do anything except wallow in her own self-pity.

I’m used to female lead characters in chick lit who are drowning slowly and painfully. Abby – not slowly but very painfully. The woman was a mess. Til she got her guy back! Then, like magic, poof! All better!

I liked some things about How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life – I disliked others. All in all – a 5, which is where most Chick Lit lives. Worth reading at the beach or when you need something mindless to lose yourself in.

Who am I sending this too, once TW has read it? Anyone want it? Anyone into chamber pots or EBB?

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Daily Dose of Cupcakes

3 Comments / Cupcake Toppers, Daily Dose /

mominsunflowerpick.jpgThe picks featured are sold out – that’s the problem with Mother’s Day – you have to shop early or stuff sells out and then all you’re left with are silly things like bonnets or shoes and makeup or mom in a bikini. Oh wait, the bonnets are also sold out. Weird. Happy Mother’s Day anyway – and for those who need it, burn a bit of sage just in case.

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Thinking Blogger

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So, skeet thinks I am a thinking blogger. I am a thinking blogger. I think a lot about stuff, blogging in particular. Skeet knows this because I often think out loud about blogging and she happens to be in the perfect place to hear me thinking out loud. About blogging. And stuff.There are rules that come with the Thinking Blogger prestige.

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.

2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.

3. Optional: Proudly display the Thinking Blogger Award

Now to tag five blogs that make me think. Tough because it’s hard to limit it to just five.

1) Oh My Stinkin Heck is a hermit and understands hermits and because yes actually I would like to be one and because oh yea, I am one.

2) Now this is a blogger who makes you think, particularly with this post about choosing to ink or not to ink – no it isn’t someone trying to decide whether or not to get a tattoo – it’s a post about a tattoo artist trying to decide whether to give the customer what he/she has asked for.

3) Over at Indyness there is a post about gay folk seeking approval. It’s also about a church who is “supporting gay folk”. It’s a post that I love. It’s touching on a topic that queer folks sweep under the rug and a topic queer supporters get defensive about.

4) Faggots on the Third Floor will make you think just by the title of the blog but I’m linking this post because it’s an issue and because she’s bad talking the ever popular and much loved lesbaru errr subaru. I love TW’s Forester but I have always griped about the placement of the AC/HEAT vents in that car.

5) Maternal Musings from Mermaidgrrrl is awesome. A femme dyke gives birth (which did not go as planned) and, well, just go start at the top (and yes there are photos with nudity, get over yourselves) and read for awhile. And then think for awhile.

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Tramps Like Us

2007, Books in Bed, Feminism, Queer /

I have never read a book with so much gay boy sex in it. And, I hope to never read one again. Good grief. Tramps Like Us wasn’t erotica, or at least I don’t think it was but I’m not a gay man so what the hell do I know about it, right? It made me almost physically ill at times because I know how it turns out… in real life. 🙁



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A cool library tool

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I occasionally leave a comment on my friend (from us/them) Ed’s blog and I’ve linked him over here on various topics, including the ever popular search term “discardia”. He has linked to my posts about my bookshelves by color or my library. I often spurl things I’ve found by checking out Ed’s delicious links. Ed is part of my blog community and part of my books community. Because of this, I have an awesome new tool that has improved my life. I don’t think I can even begin to explain how this one tiny thing has made a difference. It hasn’t solved the energy crisis, brought about world peace or provided me with winning lottery numbers (nobody wins those things anyway) but it has made me smile. A lot. And given TW more control over her reading list and taken full responsibility off of me.

Christina found me through Ed. Christina used to live in Gainesville, though she doesn’t live here now. She used to work at the Alachua County Library (which is my library, the one I love and often blog about). She wrote a script that she wanted me to try. I tried it. It didn’t work quite right. The next day, she had me try it again. It worked. Oh my how it works!

If I look at a book on Amazon with this nifty little Amazon Gainesville Library Greasemonkey script installed text will appear on the Amazon page, underneath the title of the book, that tells whether it is available at my library. If it is, I can click the link right there on the page and it will let me reserve it immediately. No clicking back and forth. No searches on the library website (which can occasionally, ok often, be slow). No moving back to Amazon to save the title on my wishlist when I discover my library doesn’t have it.

And, what’s really cool is that TW has the script and can reserve her own books! We’re not used to this system yet and every now and then TW sends me an email or an AIM asking me to reserve a book. That makes us laugh.

Christina is cool. Ed is cool. My library is cool.

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Weird

2 Comments / Family Funk, Friends & Family /

I’m finding it a little weird that TW is sitting here emailing my ex mother in law. It’s bad enough that when we go to visit them I get NO attention and TW gets all of the attention. Hell she may get more attention than Michelle and I know she gets more attention than Christopher does. Have I mentioned my ex mother in law makes food that she knows TW loves because she “promised TW last time that she would”? Sheesh.

My ex mother in law loves TW. It’s weird. And I’m jealous! I’m also happy. And lucky. There are good people in my family.

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