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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Worth a Thousand Words: Ural Owl

Ural Owl

taken by Remo Savisaar

Posted by Julie D. at 12:09 PM

Labels: Fine Art

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0 brave one(s) among us:

My Name is Earl

Gun Store Owner: There's a three-day ID check on all guns.

Joy: Land of the free, my ass - what can I bring outta here today that gonna kill somebody?

Gun Store Owner: Anything in aisle seven.

Today's Horoscope*

Mars in your sun sign indicates that you will go to work, watch televised sports, and enjoy several meals this week.

Via The Onion (warning: site can contain explicit content). *What's a Catholic blog doing with a horoscope in the sidebar? Here's the answer.

What I'm Reading

Julie's bookshelf: currently-reading

Gospel of Mark, The

by Mary Healy

This is a really great commentary. Healy combines a lot of the information that I have in a variety of other commentaries (both Catholic and Protestant), but then pulls it all together with additional observations that make it very accessib...

tagged: currently-reading, 2012, catholic, faith, inspirational, horror, livin...

The Odyssey

by Homer

I saw that Scott and Jesse (and others) will be discussing the Odyssey on SFFaudio sometime soon, a few books at a time. This piqued my interest and I began listening to the LibriVox free version. I have read the Odyssey before, though I wo...

tagged: currently-reading, 2012, classic, listening, and librivox

The Engines of God

by Jack McDevitt

Picked up this review copy via SFFaudio. Looking forward to hearing the story, especially after reading Orson Scott Card's column containing a tribute to both the author and this series.

tagged: 2012, audio-book, fiction, review-copy, sci-fi-fantasy, sffaudio, list...

Couch Potato
(What we're watching)

* My Name is Earl (season 1): Surely everyone has heard of this series from some time ago. Lowlife Earl discovers karma when he is hit by a car right after buying the winning lottery ticket. He makes a list of every bad thing he's ever done and sets out to right those wrongs. Hilarious and heart-warming (but not in a sappy way). This is our evening half-hour before bed watching.

* The Guild (seasons 4 and 5): The web series chronicling the dysfunctional gamers of The Guild, written by and starring Felicia Day. You may have to actually love computer games to think this is funny ... or maybe not. It is hugely popular and gets better with each season. Season 5, which ended at a gamers convention, featured a number of celebrity walk-ons where the names were rarely, if ever, mentioned. We probably caught about half of them.

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