I heart books

I got this from my cousin, who got it from someone else's blog, who got it from someone else's blog, and they told two friends, and so on, and so on...

The rules are, you bold the books you've read, italicize the ones you want to read, and leave unchanged the ones you're not interested in or are not sure about.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley).
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolsoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Avast me hearties!

Our next war on terror... pirates!

Roy's got some anger management issues.

Quotes of the day...

"That black line in the middle of the shrimp... it's feces."

"This is getting really hard."
"That's what she said."

Britney's bald

Zzzzzzzzzzz.

And Justin Timberlake is crowned King of Pop.

My silly turpentine

Happy Valentine's Day everyone. Up here we're in the middle of a snowy/icy/rainy mix storm which is terrible for those out on the roads. Luckily, they closed my office today and I'm working from home and taking care of the kids... and it's my first time watching Regis in ages! Woo!

In the news, our former Mass. Governor Mitt "I will not run for president but my options are open" Romney officially announced his candidacy for president of the United States. Romney entering the presidential ring brings the total number of candidates to a staggering 845 candidates from all political parties. Well, maybe not that many, but it sure does seem like it. I wouldn't be surprised if Hubert Humphrey or Pat Paulsen makes a posthumous run.

Hooray for Disney

I just read an article that the Walt Disney company is planning to bring back hand-drawn animation. Good for them. I like some of the computer generated stuff that's out there, but there nothing like a hand-drawn comic. I remember when I was younger, I tried doing my own 'animation' by drawing stick figures on each page of say the corner of a notebook and flipping the pages to get the figure to 'move'. That was fun.

Blizzard of '78

Today is the 29th anniversary of the start of the Blizzard of 1978 that pummelled the Northeast. Cars were stranded on highways and basically everything was shutdown for a week. I vaguely remember staying home from school that week. We couldn't open to door to the outside because of the snow drifts, and the snow mounds were huge! At least, they looked that way to an eight year old. What are your memories of the blizzard?

(Side note: Interestingly enough, when searching for articles and pictures of the blizzard on the internets, I found this local band called The Blizzard of 78. They definitely have that Boston/New England sound to them.)

Young hearts be free tonight

Last night, my wife and I went to go see Rod Stewart in concert at the Gaaaaden. She won the tickets from a local radio station and we went out on our first night out alone for months we think. We were trying to figure out when the last time we went out by ourselves without the kids and it's been a while.

Well, Mr. Stewart did not disappoint. I've always liked his songs throughout the years, especially his older stuff. He's not one of those acts that I would seek out to get tickets for, but hey a free show is a free show. He performed in the round which is always a plus and he can still belt it out. His 'opening act' was a local Scottish bagpipe band and they performed for a few minutes before Rod Stewart came out which was very cool. His songs ranged the gamut throughout his career from his opening song of "Tonight, I'm Yours", "You Wear It Well", "You're In My Heart" to "Infatuation", "Some Guys Have All the Luck", and "Forever Young". He also played some cover tunes from his latest album like "Have You Ever Seen The Rain" from CCR and "It's A Heartache" from Bonnie Tyler. If you ever get a chance to see his show, I'd recommend it.

So many news stories...

Well, the first obvious one for today is the scare in Boston yesterday from a marketing ploy from Turner Broadcasting regarding the packages left around the city for a cartoon movie. It seems that they should have known that something like this would happen considering the circumstances.

In politics, we have Al running for the Senate in Minnesota and other articles on another famous Al urging him to run in 2008.