Damn, I didn’t realize that Friday was Singles’ Awareness Day. For a good read on the subject of singleness, check out “Exploring Relationships with the Single Weirdo” over at lifehack.org.
The new issue of Yarnival, as edited by Miss T, is now available!
Reading Update
The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress by Audrey Niffenegger. If you’re looking for something in the vein of Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, you won’t find it in these visual “novels.” Niffenegger writes that when she tries to explain The Three Incestuous Sisters, she tells people “to imagine a silent film made from Japanese prints, a melodrama of sibling rivalry, a silent opera that features women with very long hair and a flying green boy.” Of the second non-visual novel she’s working on, the biographical blurb in the back of The Adventuress notes that “she’s a very slow writer, easily distracted by her cats and the lure of libraries and airplanes.”
Howling Moon: A Tale of the Sazi by C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp. I started out getting very involved in this tale of a werejaguar and a pack of werewolves, but I think the story was drawn out too much for the amount of story there was to tell.
Relative Magic by Tanya Huff. I admit to not reading all of the stories in this collection of Tanya Huff’s short fiction. Frankly, her “high fantasy” works don’t interest me (no one’s “high fantasy” or “sword & sorcery” seems to interest me anymore – I’m all about contemporary fantasy now), so I stuck to the more contemporary tales.
Viewing Update
Into the Wild. I own the Eddie Vedder soundtrack, so when a friend I haven’t seen in a while suggested catching the film at the Riverview Theater ($3.00) Friday night (after catching up over a glass of hard cider at the Riverview Cafe and Wine Bar), I decided I should do so. The movie is gorgeous, the story thought-provoking and ultimately, to me, very tragic.
Mayhem Update
Can you see the cat in this picture? (Um, yeah, I might have a few books and cds…)
Need some help?
This time, she’s lying on about 10 pairs of wet wool socks…
10 pairs, wow May, that takes some effort. I’m impressed.
Heh, took me awhile, but I do spot a stuffed little fuzzy black kitty on the big CD shelf!
Oh, and um…I guess the fact that I’m lazy and just throw my socks in the machine may not be the best way to care for them…?
Those Niffenegger books sound cool. You should get some books or CDs to fill up your apartment. It’s as if all the world ended but all that survived were books and CDs and a sink laying cat
Wow – that’s alotta books! And is she helping you get the water out of the socks? If so, very helpful kitty?
I’d love to visit your library! 😉
I want to see Into the Wild. Love the soundtrack.
I see the tail of a Mayhem!!!
hehe 🙂 It was kind of hard being distracted by the huge piles of books and black kitties but eventually I picked her out!
I think you read kimbooktu? Did you see the latest post about the cool built-in stair/bookcase?
Jester likes wet wool too, she rolled all over my stole while I was pinning it out. :b
You may have a kitty in your sink, but I just found out my cousin has a goat in her bathtub. Really. They got a baby goat that needs to be fed 5 times a day and can’t be outside right now, so it’s in a dog carrier in the bathtub.
Chris- I always think a person’s environment is very revealing about them.
You’re obviously highly intelligent. The cat in the sink-?
Let me get back to you on that.
I laughed out loud.
Well, darn, I would have worn my Singelringen on Friday…
And, unfortunately, I can’t fit all of my books into a single picture…. (grin)
So is it actually the sink, or the lure of wet wool that attracts Mayhem?
Ha! Your place looks like mine! Books everywhere, stacked on the floor, on the table….and I have a hubby who reads as well, so it’s a pile of books everywhere. Oh well, at least he can’t say it’s all mine!
Into the Wild is a terrific book, but I haven’t seen the movie yet. Thanks for mentioning Yarnival!
Hi, my name is Katâ„¢ and I am a bookaholic. But I saved myself by working in a library for a couple years. Now that I am intimately familiar with its workings — and have insider friends who will on occasion wipe out my fines — I do not require more than a couple shelving units for my own books.
That said, I am jealous of your collection 🙂
hehe for a second I thought she was in the bookcase but then I remembered we were talking about sink kitties 😉 I wonder what it is about WET wool that she likes so much? More sheep smell then?
Books and CDs are great things to have. I don’t think a person can have too many.
I think the long hard winter may be getting to Mayhem. I hope she soon has some birds outside the window to distract her from the wet wool.
Are all the other black not-kitties in the picture camouflage?
It’s good to see that I’m not the only one who decorates with lots of bookcases. 🙂 I find it so interesting that May likes wet wool. Maybe it’s the smell.
I didn’t know of any other Niffenegger titles — are those books good?
I saw Mayhem without any help!
One can never have too much literature or music…
Now that’s just wrong. If it were 100 degrees outside, maybe I’d understand. But in the winter!?!?
Funny, the first thing I noticed was the toy basket!
I am lusting after your book collection… We tend to have to cull our book collections periodically due to lack of storage area… More’s the pity.
haha! I’ve got a buch of cats over here with faucet fixations too. Maybe we should start a support group.
I was waaaay to distracted by all those books….
mmmm wet wool!
Mooky has recently become interested in the bathtub. He jumps in and just sits there. I can understand it after someone takes a shower — then he licks the bottom of the tub. But sometimes he just sits in there.
???
I can’t quite make out the titles…..Mayhem, Mayhem, Mayhem. Lounging on wet wool socks? You’re just a peculiar albeit gorgeous kitty.
Contemporary fantasy is what I like in that genre too. Or contemporary hard sci. Not so much other worlds.
Maymay is odd. Odd!
I have so few books….. used to have tons, but you know, last minute move and all.
Most of them, of course, are now knitting pornography.
I’m SO glad to see neat tidy bookcases….behind PILES of books on the floor. Heck, piles of books against the wall are *insulation*, we are needing this! It’s mu personal opinion that the coziness, security and comfort of a home is in direct relation to the number of books therein (and of course the presence of a stash, whether or not in plain sight, is an enhancement). And of course, cats are the sparkling, exquisite ornamentation that improve the near-perfect.
I was thinking maybe this was a see how many black cats you can find in the picture, I saw at least 4. Well blobs that looked like a cat form, I’m guessing some must be knick knacks.
She figures she has finally managed to herd the socks all into one place. Seeing as you are always paying so much attention to the things (the socks), she figures she’s got a great chance of some lovin’ if she is surrounded by that many socks!
I’m glad to hear your positive review of Into the Wild. I read and really liked the book.
Singles awareness. Huh. I’ll have to tell my friend rj10 about that. There is something to that. People assume things like the single person at work can pick up the slack while I go tug my kids around or build my deck or whatever. I’m conflating single with without child, which isn’t correct either, but it was the example that came to mind.
Wha? Did you say something about the cat? I’m too busy drooling over your book collection. Oh if I only had that many bookcases.
Love your condo – so sweet – and looks oddly familiar (grin) Mayhem is such a cool cat.
That article on single-ness was fun and well written – thanks for the link. I was a bit bothered by the advertising that was along the side bar (married & available was one of them) ugh. makes me want to lose my cookies.
Holy moly, you have tons of books, etc.! If you ever have to move it’s going to take an army of friends. It took me forever to find the kitty in the sink.
I’m so glad to know I’m not the only one with a fetish for white melamine bookcases!
🙂
May…I keep trying to tell you that cat’s don’t LIKE wet…(and btw, I didn’t see her in the sink)
(((hugs)))