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I love this song so much.   Thank you, Tenacious D.  PS- not safe for work, unless you have headphones.

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Tenacious D

My extreme hearting of "We Love Katamari" has peaked in some fan art.  I have immortalized it on my denim jacket:

Hearting Katamari

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What's your musical horoscope?  (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)  Inspired by Stephanie.

What a cool idea:

Reach Out (and I'll Be There), cover by Gerald Levert
The Wait--The Pretenders
Spies - Coldplay
Mystery Achievement - The Pretenders
Amazona - Chocolate Genius
Father of Mine - Everclear
Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
Slip Away - The Verve
Delicious Demon - The Sugarcubes
On Your Side - Pete Yorn

Katamaricity

Gigi and I have been playing a kah-razy Playstation game called We Love Katamari.  It's ridiculously simple, but the graphics and sound are so surreal, it's vastly entertaining.  What has surprised me the most is watching my mellow daughter turn into a hyper-competitive type A lunatic while she plays.   Not that there is anything wrong with that, and yet I found myself telling her to chill out, and later I wondered why. 

What the hell is wrong with her being ruthless at rolling up computer-generated objects?  When we played together, she naturally took on a leadership role, barking orders at me like a pre-pubescent Patton.  I could take a lesson from her in intensity and focus, actually. 

Our first attempt together resulted in me telling her not to be so bossy, and her feeling guilty, and I thought, "Well, crap.  No wonder little girls lose all their drive and energy.  Their mothers tell them not to be so bossy".  Still, we really did need to communiciate better.  So we tried it again, with her trying bark more specifically, and me being less of a wuss, and we totally kicked some katamari ass.   We finished the second round in a flush of excitement and much high-fiving.

What song or lyrics are stuck in your head at the moment?  What album is it from?
Submitted by Lox Ly. 

"I believe when I fall in love this time it will last forever..."

from song of same name by Stevie Wonder.  I think the album is Innervisions, can't remember.

What books are on your nightstand?

Wise Up, by Guy Claxton
Maise Dobbs/Birds of a Feather mystery duo, by Jacqueline Winspear
Creative Vision: M loaded with Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan and MiddleMarch by George Eliot

Last Diaper. EVAR.

This is the last diaper, which I found in my glove box the other day when looking for a napkin. Zach hasn't worn a pull up in weeks, and when I saw this in the glove box, I had that lovely small epiphany that many parents have with each child--No More Diapers!

I suggested to Jim we have a ritual burning. He squirmed and said, "Uh....why don't you just put it on the internet instead?".   So that is what I did.

What's the nerdiest thing about you?

Well, I am terrible at math and science, so that reduces my nerdiness quite a bit right there; I guess I aspire to nerdiness there.

I guess it's the fact that I am really unhappy if I am not learning something new.  I really get a kick out of learning new things; I am the only person I know who goes to an educational conference and really thinks a long time about what sessions to attend vs. who to hang out with at the party.

Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan

I am listening to this rather than reading it right now, from an audible.com downloard. 

I read Pollan's earlier book, "The Botany of Desire", a few years ago and really loved it.  This was a real eye-opener, and I appreciate his rather moderate take on things.  I consider myself a liberal person, but left-wing extremism irritates me far more than right-wing extremism.  Extreme right-wingers are easy to understand because from where I am looking, they are clearly nuts, end of story.  Extreme left-wingers though....they should know better.  They should be more like...well, me.

Best bit: Pollan describing his experiments in foraging for his own food, and finding a "possible" chanterelle mushroom from the expedition.  He put the single fungi on a plate in his kitchen, and consulted his guidebook.  Unfortunately, he was unable to resolve whether or not his musher was a real or one of those "false chanterelles".  He couldn't eat it...his nice jewish mother had done too good a job at teach him to fear wild mushrooms.  So he ended up pitching it!  Love that, cause it's so like...well, me.

It's a great book, and surely has put me off fast food forever.  Or, at least for a very very long time.