Book lover problems. Mine is that I've run out of bookshelves....
Legos and gender identity.
I didn't know Daily Kos was keeping track of weekly accidental gun shootings. We are a clumsy bunch, aren't we?
Plastics cause diabetes and obesity? How about wood?
I do believe that being bored actually does not give you the right to shoot people.
Glasses that help people with red-green color blindness.
Sperm and eggs made from skin cells.
Make good art.
6 comments:
"Plastics cause diabetes and obesity? How about wood?"
Plastics cause wood, too!
Lol.... My horrible sentence structures must cause you pain, Steve. Blogging allows me to write as I speak... badly.
ellroon, that's not at all what I intended... I was just having fun with the words, NOT (at least not intentionally) at your expense.
Ironically, I can't blame my mother the English teacher for my annoying habits... my thesis advisor had more to do with those than anyone else.
btw, all our bookshelves are loaded at least two books deep, front-to-back; the trick is to remember what's in back. The real problem is remembering the location of "sparse" collections... those of authors for whom I have, say, two books, or five books, or in any case too few to dedicate a whole shelf to their works. I actually bought a second copy of one of Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski books because, unable to find my (nearly complete!) collection of her works, I thought I'd sold them to Half Price Books. In my right mind I would have known I wouldn't do such a thing, but old-man memory afflicts me sometime... So I used the spare copy to introduce another friend to V.I.
No annoying habits on your side, and you are a wonderful wordsmith. As well as a wicked punster.
And I'm such a packrat, I know I've saved something to use/read/refer to later but can't find it so I buy another.... I have books two deep as well as well as in boxes and stacked beside my bed, on the floor, in the garage.... I need to be firm and give away those I know I will never read (but how can I be sure?) or ones I did not like (but will a family member or friend like it?) and on and on.... I'll just save the questionable ones in this box...
In my old age I am finally learning a simple rule of thumb: collect and keep all the fiction you like... it will always be true to itself, if it ever was... but don't bother collecting nonfiction, because sooner or later it won't be. Nonfiction, that is.
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