Brain Chimney

Lovin' Punctuation Desecration

The following is completely stolen from Apostrophe Abuse because they are so damn funny (and I could never do them justice rewording it myself):

Bad news: We only have one keg. Good news: It's on sale!

Spotted in Lansing, MI:

I am also getting a serious laughter-induced stomachache from reading The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks.

RIP...WTF? Whoa! All in one day, too!

 

When I was four years old, Farrah Fawcett was Queen of my TV screen as she caught the "bad guys" as one of Charlie's Angels.

And just now, Michael Jackson, the Thriller, is announced dead, too.   I really thought he'd live longer than me.  Of course, that sentiment makes no sense; except for he did do that hyperbaric oxygen chamber thing-a-ma-jig in the 80's and said he wanted to live to be 150.

Whoa!  I am feeling old and a bit discombobulated by the death of these two stars of my childhood.

I am the Walrus!

I have no love for video games, but this Rock Band short film for the Beatles blows my mind (especially at 1:20 forward)!  I SO LOVE IT!

Nom, Nom!

Yogurt, fruit, a dollop of honey, and granola at Boulange De Cole Valley (or the Patisserie as we call it).

Eraser Cairn

Found one morning on my desk...an Eraser Cairn:

No one shall ever get lost in my 1st grade classroom; the eraser cairn marks my desk!

Alas, I no longer teach 1st grade!  I'm movin' on up to 8th grade English!

Ike's Place: The Best Frakin' Sandwich Shop in San Francisco!

You must visit Ike's Place to try one of their OVER 200 awesome, drool-worthy sandwiches.  Bonus: Each sandwich comes with a lollipop; BOING! BOING! SUGAR!

I do believe that is Ike himself walking in to the shop right there!

A Love Poesie for Benjamin Franklin

*Benny-boy, how I love thee, for you created the public library!*

Recent Reads (All of which I have loved and checked out from the San Francisco Public Library!)

Autobiography, Biography, and/or Travel Memoir

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley)

• Kim Sunee's Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home—drool-worthy food descriptions (and recipes!) alongside a heart-touching autobiography.

• Susan Jane Gilman's Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

• Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic--The first graphic novel that I've read and enjoyed.  Very literate, intellectual, and sad and hilarious all at once.

• Stacey O'Brien's Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love story of an Owl and His Girl—My gawd, I love owls!

• Asne Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul

• Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking—Knee-slappingly funny.

 

History/Politics

• Katherine Powell Cohen's Images of America: San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury—My beleoved neighborhood!  Fantastic, brief historical overview from the 1880's to 2008 with photograph's gracing each page.

 

About Public Libraries and the Love of Reading

• Don Borchert's Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library

• Emma Walton Hamilton's Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment

• Vicki Myron's Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Fiction

• Andrew Sean Greer's The Story of a Marriage

• Robert Charles Wilson's Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century

 

Currently Reading

• Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

• Donna Farhi's Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living

• Carol Off's Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

 

Currently Browsing (i.e. not reading every single page)

• Mothisa Yamakage's The Essence of Shinto: Japan's Spiritual Heart

• Terence Conran's The Chef's Garden: Fresh Produce from Small Spaces

• Swami Vishnu-Devanda's The Complete Book of Illustrated Yoga

 

Future Reads

• Hooman Majd's The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

• James Dalessandro's 1906: A Novel (about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake)