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The Books of 2006

I think I can safely say that I won’t be reading any more books this year. I thought I’d read 52 books this year, but it turns out that all this time I’ve been counting one of the books that I’d abandoned. So I’ve only read 51. And I’m OK with that.

Next year, I’d

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Friday Feast No. 124

AppetizerHow do you usually celebrate on New Year’s Eve?
Most years we stay home and, if we’re feeling particularly festive, we might break open a bottle of bubbly grape juice. I know, we’re totally crazy. This year, though, we’re actually going out to dinner! And then we’ll come home sometime before midnight to toast with the

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The Marshmallow Shuffle

1. Even Better Than the Real Thing U2
Guess who’s back! Originally uploaded by nichole_e.

2. Willy was a Whale Justin Roberts3. Oliver Galop Blind Tom4. Milk Kings of Leon5. The Test Chemical Brothers6. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? Culture Club7. Wait Up Uncle Tupelo8. Thrasher

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"Home Fire"

American Life in Poetry: Column 092

By Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate, 2004-2006Home is where the heart. . . Well, surely we all know that old saying. But it’s the particulars of a home that make it ours. Here the poet Linda Parsons Marion, who lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, celebrates familiarity, in its detail and its

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Wiki Wednesday: Simple Simon (Musical)!

1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it!

Simple Simon was a Broadway musical with book by Guy Bolton, and Ed Wynn, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, music by Richard Rodgers, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, and starring Ed Wynn.

It originally played from February 18, 1930 to June 14, 1930 at

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Best Husband Ever.

Rockford gives wonderful gifts. As much as I love being the recipient of his thoughtfulness, I always feel bad on gifting occasions because he showers me with presents he’s spent months picking out and I inevitably end up giving him a pair of jeans and a DVD or a pack of new socks and a

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The Merry Christmas to Me Shuffle

1. Hey Mister James Taylor 2. $1000 wedding Gram Parsons3. Starbodies The New Pornographers4. Rockestra Theme Paul McCartney & Wings 5. Vampire Blues Neil Young6. Bloody Well Right Supertramp7. Islands Cat Power8. History of Lovers Iron & Wine / Calexico9. We’re Going to Be Friends The White Stripes10. Merchants of Soul Spoon11. Whiskeyclone Hotel Beck

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Friday Feast No. 122

AppetizerWhat is one of your Christmas traditions?
Rockford and I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” on Christmas Eve.

SoupWho is the easiest person on your list to buy presents for?
Poppy. She isn’t terribly discriminating yet. She loves everything.

Salad What is your favorite Christmas scent?
Cookies.

Main Course If you could give a fellow blogger a Christmas gift, who would

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~~Make my own cream soda~~.
Spend a week in Paris with Rockford.
See Wilco at the Ryman.
See Wilco in Chicago.
Make a quilt.
Spend a night on a train.
Spend a week in NYC with Rockford.
Karaoke.
Pay for a stranger's dinner.
Buy a house.
Be an extra in a movie.
~~Work on a Habitat house~~.
Take the White House tour.
Take guitar lessons.
Grow my own vegetables.
Participate in TV Turnoff week without cheating.
Write a short story. Let someone other than Rockford read it.
Bust through a paper wall.
Take 100 portraits
Read the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels
Learn to dance.
Go rafting with my brother.

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