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red-neck werewolves and antediluvian vampires: Eclipse now showing at a theatre near you!

July 13, 2010

I went to Eclipse for the second time the other day with a great friend, Jocelyn. It was her first time seeing the movie. We met for lunch then smuggled cocktails into the theater for the mid-afternoon showing on a Tuesday. Don’t tell. We both loved it. She wore her homemade “Team Jacob” T-shirt and [...]

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D300s Nikon with an extra fancy multipurpose 18-200mm lens

June 30, 2010

The weirdcombos have upgraded to a new fancy and expensive camera. Yoohoo! This should improve the quality of the photos on weirdcombinations.com and impress friends and family due to the massive size and complexity of the new device. Gosh, so many buttons to press so many settings to play with… exasperating! I still feel a [...]

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Eclipse starts today!!! !!@#$%$#@@ @#$%!!!!!!!!

June 30, 2010

It’s about time!!! We love you , Stephenie Meyer!

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Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire by Mireille Guiliano

June 28, 2010

So, the first part of the title to this inspirational book is pretty clear: “women,” “work” and “art.” “Savoir faire” needs translation, at least for me. It means “the ability to say or do the right thing in any situation; tact.” Wow, I read the whole book and did not know the meaning of savoir [...]

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An open letter to Stephenie Meyer from a big fan: more Twilight novels, please!

June 26, 2010

I just finished the new The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner moments ago. All of you in the Internet universe have probably already read it, too, by now. I did enjoy the story. Bree sounds like a sweet enough vampire. And it’s cute that she is afraid of sunlight and develops a huge crush [...]

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Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabhan

June 22, 2010

The sub-title for Coming Home to Eat, “The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods,” more or less sums up the ideas behind this short book. Nabhan, a writer and ecologist based in Arizona, is passionate about his subject and cause. He’s very involved in Native Seeds/SEARCH, an organization dedicated to conserving and promoting heirloom and [...]

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Chalker’s “Quintara Marathon:” on demons, metaphysics, and guarded optimism

June 17, 2010

Quite a few Jack L. Chalker novels have some sort of metaphysics in the background. The Well World was created by this super advanced race, the Markovians, as an experiment to seed the Universe with designer sentient races to find that mysterious mystical something-or-other they were convinced that they had missed in their breathtakingly successful [...]

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science fiction cover art: appealing or a barrier to success?

May 31, 2010

I’m embarrassed to admit that though I love science fiction writing (at least some of it) the bright, flashy, sexy, cheesy covers on most of the novels make me anxious and slightly uncomfortable. It’s true. On the one hand, I’m intrigued by the art. It’s often incredibly complex, visually stunning, etc. Sometimes I even fantasize [...]

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Chalker’s endless bodily transformations heightens human sympathy and they’re a lot of fun, too

May 13, 2010

In all this type of story the living interest lies in their non-fantastic elements and not in the invention itself. They are appeals for human sympathy quite as much as any `sympathetic’ novel, and the fantastic element, the strange property or the strange world, is used only to throw up and intensify our natural reactions [...]

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portion, pleasure and planning: the French Women Don’t Get Fat Cookbook Dinner with Mireille Guiliano, San Francisco

May 10, 2010

The San Francisco Dinner with Mireille Guiliano at Moussy’s below the Alliance Française was a great opportunity to meet the author and get a sneak preview of her latest publication, The French Women Don’t Get Fat Cookbook, the next installment in the FWDGF empire since French Women for All Seasons. I knew about the new [...]

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