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Books and Movies, Fall 2007

books!
1. Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
2. Under the Tuscan Sun [re-read]
3. Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card
4. The Year's Best Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card, Ed.
5. Portnoy's Complaint, Phillip Roth
6. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
7. Gunslinger, Stephen King
8. Sagramanda, Alan Dean Foster (pretty bad)
9. The Drawing of the Three, King
10. The Waste Lands, King
11. Wizard and Glass, King
12. Wolves of the Calla, King
13. Song of Susannah, King
14. The Dark Tower, King [whole series gets a *]
15. The Magician's Assistant, Ann Patchett [re-read]
16. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett *
17. Hercules Barefoot
18. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow
19. Season of Migration to the North
20. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
21. Spellbound, Ru Emerson
22. Closer
23. Riding Rockets, Mike Mullane
24. Dune, Frank Hebert [re-read]
25. Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman [re-read]*
26. Nickle and Dimed [re-read]*

Movies
1. Walk on Water*
2. Transamerica
3. The Astronaut Farmer
4. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
5. Pan's Labyrinth*
6. Shortbus
7. The Darjeeling Limited*
8. Cowboy Bebop
9. Equilibrium
10. The Prestige*
11. A Scanner Darkly
12. Goodbye, Lenin
13. Transformers
14. Castle in the Sky
15. The Fountain
16. The 5th Element*
17. After the Wedding
18. Secretary

My alphabet of internet, aka the Firefox URL autofill function.

Methods: I typed each letter of the alphabet into firefox, and let the autofill suggest a website I have visited recently.

Results:

My current interests online, broken down into category:

19.2% webcomics (5)

15.4% work (4)

15.4% movies (4)

15.3% Philadelphia life (4)

11.5% music (3)

7.7% e-mail and social networking (2)

3.8% games (1)

3.8% surveys that win you free trips (1)

3.8% silly photos of scientists (1)

3.8% making fun of Second Life (1)

Conclusion: I feel like I know myself much better now!

Data:

http://www.avclub.com/content/

http://www.biowizard.com/

http://craigslist.com

http://dieselsweeties.com/

http://www.eddieizzard.com/

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.gmail.com/

http://hypem.com/

http://improbable.com/projects/hair/hair-club001.html

http://www.jeffersonhospital.org/

http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/

http://www.laboldbrothers.com/LaboldBrothers_AboutUs.html

http://my6.statcounter.com/project/standard/camefrom_activity.php?project_id=1204098

http://www.netflix.com/MemberHome

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx?cag=1

http://www.pandora.com/

http://www.questionablecontent.net/

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50726001/1023

http://scarygoround.com/

http://www.ticketmaster.com/

http://www.uwishunu.com/

http://valleywag.com/tech/second-life/newt-gingrich-drinks-the-virtual-kool+aid-302562.php

http://wigu.livejournal.com/

http://xkcd.com/

http://yoonabomber.blogspot.com/2007/08/pretzel-ride-pretzel-ride-pretzel-ride.html

http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB226X4MUMX93

this is all.

La Serbiana & I are going to the extremely sold out Justice show tonight!
Much anticipation. :)

"Music makes me lose control."

Hipster tastemakers be damned: the Voxtrot/1990s/Little Ones show at the First Unitarian Church was loads of fun. Kate & I did get a shout-out from Jackie of the 1990s for being awesome (i.e. dancing) Why would you go to a show and not dance?
Le sigh.

Philly is 5 million degrees today, but the office is still freezing. Terrible.

Female Asian and African elephants at the Philadelphia Zoo.

I want to rent an elephant. Very easy to do if you live in Hollywood or India, very hard to do if you live in suburban Pennsylvania.

If you have an elephant that I can borrow for a day, you should e-mail me.

Polenta with Deliciousness

I really cooked last night for the first time in weeks: let's call it Polenta with Deliciousness.
Polenta is my ultimate comfort food (except maybe for Matzah Ball Stew).

The Polenta:
1 cup yellow corn meal
3 cups water
low-fat mozzarella to taste
salt, pepper.

-Bring the water to a simmer, sloooooowly pour cornmeal in as you stir. (Slowly! Too fast means untasty clumps!) Stir in one direction (to minimize clumping) every 2-3 minutes for 30 minutes. Keep about 1/2 a cup of water on hand to add in whenever the polenta gets too thick and dry. Add cheese and let it melt in, add salt & pepper to taste.

The Deliciousness:
1 chopped onion
1 tsp minced garlic
2 mini orange sweet peppers
6 sundried tomatoes
6 baby portabello mushrooms
1/2 of a vegetarian "turkey" sausage

-In extra-virgin olive oil over a low flame, caramelize the onion with the garlic. Dice everything else and add the peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, and sausage in that order.


Combine. Makes 4 servings of polenta and three of deliciousness. [Good for taking to the office the next day!]

Note: My polenta wasn't as cheesy as the platonic ideal of polenta, so next time I plan to try something like Parmesan instead of the mozzarella. Also, I might consider putting the sundried tomatoes in the polenta itself, for flavor.

dear goodness, i heart food!