Mary's Ramble

In all my whining and moaning lately about how so many really horrible things happen in April ( Titanic sinking, the 1906 San Francisco eart...

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Spring 09 Blizzards 005 , originally uploaded by KSUE . I've been grumbling because we're supposed to get some snow tonight an...

So glad Comedy Central posts these. I got distracted by Brad Pitt in Troy (really, can anyone resist that?) on another channel and didn...

I had no idea today was the 10th anniversary of The Matrix until I logged in to FriendFeed this morning and discovered this: So cool. I...

Think carefully about how you would answer that, then go read this . Your answer may have a lot to do with how old you are. (via Official St...

Hubby is so jealous :-)

I spent part of the past week in Virginia Beach, VA at the 2009 ILLiad International Conference . Rather than dump a huge, general blog post...

It seems to be the week for "Hey, I loved that book as a kid" type of things. First, yesterday's Google logo of The Very Hungr...

The leprechauns are here! , originally uploaded by mdesive . They don't like their picture taken, but that's true of most ...

(I always wondered where those eggs came from.)

This was on The Tonight Show last night. It cracked me up and made me roll my eyes all at the same time. (And just as I was thinking I haven...

I think My Little Red Book by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff was the first LibraryThing Early Reviewers book I've gotten that I was  really  ...

My friend Cheryl St. John tagged me, so here goes... The rules: You google your name plus the word needs inside quotes like this: "Mar...

A mad scientist zaps his neighbors with a love laser! View Larger Map You can also see a parade, a marathon, and a garage band. Supposedly t...

My personalized TV dinner , originally uploaded by mdesive . I'm at my writers group's annual retreat, which has a TV them...

So far, it's been a week of fun surprises in the mail (I hope it continues!). Today's surprise came in an envelope addressed in my...

Thus my New Year's Goal .

The other day, I lamented that it's been at least six months since a movie has come out which I've deemed "theater-worthy"...