Fifty

Finished Bukowski. That makes 44 books, 6 dramas, and 2 full-length audiobooks for the year. So if I count dramas (and yesterday's poll implied that I could), then I have met The 50 Book Challenge. This is especially good since in January I considered myself enough of a non-reader to refuse to set my goal that high, and instead settled on twenty-five as a reasonable goal.

Next up is Tom Robbins' Still Life With Woodpecker, which was my next book all along. Yesterday's poll on what to read next was just to make you feel like you had some say in the matter. :)

TRIBUTOSAURUS TONIGHT! I have convinced Gaudere (for those that know her) to come and Veebs will also be there. Add in some Nancypants and Kylalove, and hopefully some Staci and Jen, too, and you have a recipe for... Well me and a lot of girls. Yay for girls! I was going to invite niblet_head, but I don't have her address.

You know what makes me sad? Hearing my kitty mooing through the door when I'm locking it to leave in the morning.

But now it's time for the MEME I'm inventing. Your task is to list 10 things (or five, if you're lazy) that make you smile. These should be generic and not involve specific people so others can bask in your glory. "Having my nostrils licked by my lover" is acceptable; "Having Vic Tayback lick my nostrils" is not, even if you're sleeping with him (which, ewwww, because he's dead and all). Feel free to mention people in context of their work/art, though, i.e. "A Bon Jovi song" or "Ralph Nader's Gonads". Let's pretend like that made sense.

I shall get things started by offering the following:
Things that make me smile

1. Baby giggles.


2. Daisies.


3. The book To Kill a Mockingbird.


4. The movie To Kill a Mockingbird.


5. Watching someone do something silly when they don't know anyone is watching.


6. Baby animals.


7. Shel Silverstein's poems.


8. Girls with those little pigtail buns that look like tiny Mickey Mouse ears.


9. Low-ride pants with short shirts. Nibbbbbbble.


10. Unexpected hugs.


11. Bonus smiley thing: Smiles from someone who's just woken up.

buh-KAWK!

Those of you looking for a Christmas present for me (just because I don't like Christmas doesn't mean that I don't like presents), consider The Story of Chickenman on CD. Listen to last week's This American Life ("Poultry Slam") for a couple of samples. It was one of the best TAL's I've heard in a while. It started with this story of two grown women and their relationship with a stuffed duck (I want to meet both of these girls), then talked about Chickenman, then talked about a full-length finger-puppet opera about Chicken Little that I really want to see, and finished with a story about a chicken photographer that I haven't finished yet. You can listen to the show on their website as a RealAudio stream.

Edited to add: Can I just say that I hate RealOne Player? Even the free one. Why does everyone want to be a complete audio solution? Real One, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Winamp... They all want to be all things to everyone. I just want the motherfucking streaming audio capabilities of RealPlayer. Not CD ripping or MP3 organization or premium content or CD burning... JUST THE STREAMING AUDIO. They're a bunch of lousy bitchfuckers.

Online dating

Every single girl on either of the dating services I'm on... I can find some reason in their profile while they'll reject me. And I bet if they wrote me first, I could find some reason to reject them. I'm such a hypocrite.

My personality, as decided by computer...

Here's what my match.com personality profile says about me:
( snip )

Accurate?