Hungry for pasta.

First of all, this current song is amazing. Mr. Black's voice gets beautifully destroyed in the chorus and the coda.

Secondly, I've been not updating much, mostly because my time is being devoted to reading. Currently, I am savouring Robert M. Price's The Reason Driven Life, which is essentially a critique of The Purpose Driven Life (an obnoxiously treacly bit of evangelical pap).

I'm currently reading a copy I got from the library, but my very own copy will be coming from amazon (hopefully on Tuesday).

In that same shipment is also Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. It is marketed to the "young adult" crowd, but from what I've read so far, it's one of those books that defies age categorization.

After all that reading (which isn't that much, and shouldn't take too long), is a week-long jaunt out to Calgary in June.

Anyhoo, how's all y'all doin'?

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I don't know what he's singing about, but I love the way he does it.

Thank you fark.com :-)

Muppet love is a force of nature!!

I'd like to wish Shaft a Happy Mother's Day, but I can't, because as we all know, he's a bad mother.












I'm bored.

I'm somewhat excited. Only somewhat.

A couple of weeks ago, I bought some some pasteis de nata (Portuguese custard tarts. see userpic). I gave one to Rob, the owner of the café I go to every day (in fact, I'm there right now, suckling on the "free wi-fi" teat). He liked it so much, he is actually considering putting them on the menu. He was giving out samples today, so perhaps they'll be in his pastry display soon.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, I ♥ these little treats. :-)

I know a few guys like this.

This is not because I am in any way devout. I just have a bear-trap mind for trivia, and I paid attention in Sunday School. Oh, also, some of the multiple choices are just dumb. Anyway...

re-cid-i-vist |riˈsidəvist|
noun
a convicted criminal who reoffends, esp. repeatedly.

A scene from Wim Wenders' film, Lisbon Story. I love this song...

In terms of memorable goals in the FIFA World Cup, this one still gives me the same goosebumps as when I saw it live in 1990.

Here's the situation. Colombia v. Germany. All Colombia needs is a draw to advance to the next round. For most of the game, chances were few and far between. Then, with 2 minutes left in the game, Germany's Pierre Litbarski scored a goal that broke all of Colombia's hearts. It looked like they were out.

Then... God intervened. Deep into extra time (the time added on by the ref to the end of each half to make up for injury stoppages), a miracle...



I have never seen a player more elated over a goal as Freddy Rincon on that day. Still gives me goosebumps.

Flamboyant goalkeeping!!

I think I want this book. It's from the good people who have given us The Framley Examiner

From your bookshelf, list titles for each letter of the alphabet. A and The are discounted and numbers are spelt out. X is so difficult to find that a title including the letter will count (eg. Don Quixote). If you like, include the author(s) in parentheses. Here goes:

A - All Families are Psychotic (Douglas Coupland)
B - Blankets (Craig Thompson)
C - Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations from the Gaelic (Alexander Carmichael)
D - Days and Nights of Love and War (Eduardo Galeano)
E - Exquisite Desire: Religion, The Erotic and the Song of Songs (Carey Walsh)
F - (The) First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World (Martin Page)
G - Going Down: Great Writing on Oral Sex (Chronicle Books)
H - Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography (James Burge)
I - Introducing Liberation Theology (Leonardo Boff, Clodovis Boff)
J - (The) Joy of Writing Sex : A Guide For Fiction Writers (Elizabeth Benedict)
K - Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Simon Winchester)
L - Larry's Party (Carol Shields)
M - My Father's Keeper: Children of Nazi Leaders--An Intimate History of Damage and Denial (Norbert Lebert & Stephan Lebert)
N - Naomi: A Novel (Junichiro Tanizaki)
O - One Hundred Red Hot Years: Big Moments of the 20th Century (Eduardo Galeano)
P - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle)
Q - (The) Questions of Jesus (John McLaughlin)
R - (The) Robber Bride (Margaret Atwood)
S - Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body--New Paths to Power and Love (Riane Eisler)
T - Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Stephen Mitchell)
U - Us v Them: Journeys to the World's Greatest Football Derbies (Giles Goodhead)
V - (The) Vampire of Curitiba and Other Stories (Dalton Trevisan)
W - Wabi-Sabi : for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Leonard Koren)
X - Generation X (Douglas Coupland)
Y - Yeshua Buddha (Jay Williams)
Z - (A) Zen Harvest (Soiku Shigematsu)