Category: Reading/Watching

  • Comics

    Do you have a favourite comic strip? I always loved The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes, neither of which are being drawn any longer. One strip I’ve been enjoying lately is Pearls Before Swine, especially this week as Rat takes a job in publishing. 1. Rat takes an editing job. 2. Rat tackles the…

  • Down Below

    I’ve been reading underground books again lately – or more accurately, books about underground spaces – and might have found a few you don’t know about. Those of you who have hung around Alive & Knitting for a while know about my fascination with underground spaces. It might come from the fact that I grew…

  • Fave Movies

    Do you have a favourite movie? I have a whole bunch of them, and it’s interesting to analyze what’s similar between them. Recently, I found an old fave at the video store – do we still call them “video stores”, even though we rent DVD’s there now? Hmmm. – and brought it home for a…

  • First Romance Novel Read

    I provided a comment about the first romance I ever read, and it’s appearing in a blog post today. Kimber Chin is gathering similar stories for NightOwl Romance, and the blog post is here. And once you find out what my first romance novel was, pop back here and tell me what your first romance…

  • In the CD deck

    I’ve been listening to a pair of cd’s lately and that’s kind of surprising. I do tend to get a suite of cds in there and listen to them a thousand times – more or less – before changing them out, but that’s not the surprising part. The odd bit is that this is a…