Your face is as a book, where men may read strange matters.

• New Orleans! I spent two days there with my dad last month. Hit up the French Quarter, fell in love, then overheated and almost passed out at Jazz Fest. Big crowds and pot haze don’t agree with me. But the next morning I felt much better and now I’m dying to go back. A more detailed post about our trip is forthcoming.
• Hawk Cam. Really, who isn’t watching this?
• The Single Most Ridiculous Movie Premise Ever Made via Cracked.
• The Book of Mormon soundtrack gets more amazing the more I listen to it.
• For fans of Sailor Moon, particularly the horrid English dub, the abridged series is a riot.
• I’m the proud owner of a shiny new Kindle. I can never part with my beloved books but this really is the next best thing. E-book recs, anyone?
• Go the F**k to Sleep, a bedtime story for exhausted parents. I’m tempted to buy a copy.
• The Shakespearean Insulter is fast becoming my go-to source for random exclamations of disgust and disapproval.
• Interested in self-publishing? You should check out this blog by Lindsay Buroker.
• Requires Only That You Hate – specfic geekrage!
• Looking for something new to read? Try What Should I Read Next? and BookLamp. A shame the latter seems stuck in beta.
• 10 things we want to see in the Dark Tower adaptation. With one exception (leave the ending as is), I disagree with everything on this list.
• MYTHPUNK! It’s exactly what it sounds like. Here, have a few more links.
• Read this: The Rumpelstiltskin Retellings: A Series of Poetic Blogs by Keyan Bowes, Choose Your Own Adventure by Kat Howard, The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves by Mike Allen, Nicole Kornher-Stace, and Sonya Taaffe, & Fox Fire and Gold Coins (Disney smut with Flynn Rider and human!Robin Hood? Count me in!).
• Etsy finds: Corina Dross (beautiful “protective playing cards”), Dame Darcy, Latherati Soup Foundry (scents based on books), BellaLili.

Taste the Aswell

We have another sister who’s gone away to get tattooed, or scarification¹. Scarred? Scarified? We visit a nice part of some city and somehow I wind up at the wrong house, a large river home on stilts with an open deck. I don’t realize it’s the wrong one until I’ve gone in the back door up on deck and can’t find my room. I sneak back out without anyone seeing me, but I imagine what I would have to do if someone came in. For whatever reason, Momma refers to points on the house as honey (bottom left), salvia (top), and aswell² (bottom right). We ask the next night if we’re going anywhere else before sis gets home (we have like 8 hours) and Momma can’t think of anything. She remembers a building next to Sally’s³ that’s being renovated and that people are saying used to be/is going to be an Aquafina store. She suggests we check it out. I mention Sale⁴ is having a talent show and Momma says we don’t want to go, that it’s terrible. At one point, I’m scratching the inside of my left ear and Momma (some other lady?) tells me that’s not attractive. I reply that it’s my eczema flaring up.

- June 1, 2010

¹ BMEzine Wiki entry
² Google insisted I meant “as well.” In this instance, let’s assume aswell is some newfangled plant used for either its sweetening or hallucinogenic properties. It’s possible I misheard it.
³ Sally Beauty Supply
⁴ Sale Elementary School