Entries from September 2008

September 16, 2008

Nobody Talks About My Tina That Way

I’m sure by now that almost everyone in the world has seen the Sarah Palin/Hillary Clinton open from Saturday Night Live with Tina Fey as Palin and Amy Poehler as Clinton. Like me you probably thought that the sketch was hilarious and that Fey was pretty dead-on as Palin. Seriously no one else should even [...]

September 10, 2008

Hypocrisy on A Pig

Yesterday Senator Barack Obama said this in Lebanon, VA:

Of course the McCain campaign latched onto this statement with the same fervor that they have to any comment that may be remotely related to Governor Sarah Palin. But in two minutes of searching on YouTube I found these two videos:
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September 5, 2008

I spotted Lucy, framed and hanging on the walls, in the bowels of the American Museum of Natural History.

Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born By Tina Cassidy
Released: September 2006
AWESSSSSSSSSSOME! I put off reading this book for a long time because I thought it was more mechanics, nature, etc. OMG it’s not. Well, the first chapter is mechanics and how we differ from other animals but the rest is how human [...]

September 5, 2008

My dear Catherine, I am dying.

The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George
Released: 1986
It certainly is a whale of a book! Well, this guy had a big life. I loved this book. It starts out with Will Somers writing to Catherine Knollys about her real father, Henry VIII. And she’s like “AW HELL [...]

September 5, 2008

Old Fernley the postman was out and about early, making deliveries in his small red van.

I have been slacking on book reviews. There’ll be three today…

The Valley of Secrets by Charmian Hussey
Released: January 2005
Mystery, adventure, science fiction, history, travel! This book has it all and more! It’s the story of an orphan, Stephen Lansbury, who finds out he’s been left his previously unknown late great uncle’s estate in Cornwall, UK. [...]