This summer’s trip was to Washington DC. We built the trip around a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds concert, which meant we were crazy enough to go venturing into the craziest humidity zone known to man. (Ok, that’s the entire South, and I did live in Florida for a summer, and I really did […]
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Ok, I freely admit, the Nikki Heat books are not high art. But they’re really fun to read, and they’re getting better the further into the series they get. This book delves into the mystery of Nikki’s mother’s murder. Granted, that’s supposed to be modeled on Beckett’s mother’s murder on the show, but they take
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So we were in Washington DC from last Thursday to Tuesday. The weather was gorgeous (though ungodly humid), and we had a really good time. There was a fair amount of Smithsonian Museum viewing, and some really good food (Ted’s Bulletin, I’m looking at you!). We also got to experience Friday Night Jazz at the
Yes, I am enough of a Castle fangirl that I’ve been reading the novels that Castle has written on the show. (I am not so much of a fangirl that I buy them before they hit the bargain bin…) First thing to know about these books: they are much more fun if you watch the
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Anyone who watched the show Firefly, the rather tragically cut short space western created by Joss Whedon, is familiar with the character of Shepherd Book. Book very clearly had a back story that involved somehow being deeply involved with the Republic, which was naturally never explored when the show wasn’t allowed past a first season.
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Castle is one of my favorite shows on television right now. Mostly because I love Nathan Fillion, and will probably watch anything he’s in until he’s old, gray and toothless. Naked Heat was one of my Christmas presents. It’s the second book supposedly written by Richard Castle in the course of the “research” that keeps
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On Saturday, we brought P’s parents up to the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden in Boothbay. We spent a good deal of time in the newly opened Children’s Garden, which is the kind of place I would have gone gaga over when I was younger. There are so many cool nooks and crannies to explore, and
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Another challenge down! For this challenge, I decided to go the Devotee route, which was to read six books in six categories and watch one movie. I read/watched: With the exception of Coraline, I had all of these books lying about the house, as my BF is a huge Neil Gaiman fan. I was actually
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Read for the Dream King Challenge. The illustrated script to the movie Mirrormask features Dave McKean’s storyboards for the movie alongside the script. There’s also a forward by Neil Gaiman, as well as an appendix containing the original back and forth conversations between the two that formed the basis for the movie idea. The movie
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I’m back from a rather whirl wind trip Downeast for the weekend. The main reason for the trip was so that my father and I could attend a workshop at the Woodlawn Museum where we learned to make our own painted canvas floorclothes. Since I have pretty much no native artist ability, I chose to