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hagazusa at the Eiffel Tower (BRAVO, 10:30): hagazusa (Kim Basinger) and witchy_abriel (Joaquin Phoenix) sneak a pocketwatch into a grocery store. Then, mry19355 (Dennis Quaid) accidentally throws away slate1198 (Jean Claude van Damme)'s salad. Meanwhile, catrin_santiago (Michelle Yeoh) burns bluedolfyn (Errol Flynn)'s coffee mug. Nearby, thorn_and_calyx (Joey Lauren Adams) gets ravan (Bill Murray) drunk. Upstairs, siggy_gfs (Petula Clark) causes problems at work when a file from wastedrock (Jane Fonda) has a virus. (Part 1 of 2.)
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Who cares about dead celebrities? This is far more relevant!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEjKk5Kt3rs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flj%2Dtoys%2Ecom%2F%3Fjournalid%3D138030%26moduleid%3D99%26preview%3D%26auth%5Ftoken%3Dsessionless%3A1241722800%3Aembedcontent&feature=player_embedded

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HAPPY SAINT GEORGE'S DAY!

Remember, folks, he's the patron saint of ponehs!

Amazon is not bowing to fundy groups to sweep GLBT titles under the carpet! It was all a glitch. Or something. Sure . . .

This is the best summary I've seen so far of the whole sorry tale:

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/the_wildhunt/564641.html

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Saunders and French do Pony Club:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWd_r2sOPhs

From zzrmags, The Engineers' Guide to Cats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4

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The BBC thinks most people have only read six of these. They are wrong.

Bolding the ones I have read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Read up to Book 5)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (Most of it, anyway.)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Why listed twice?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (What is this doing on a list of great books?)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Chez Hagazusa we are sacrificing a 75 cl bottle of Belgian beer, the special kind with the champagne cork and nearly as strong as champagne, to celebrate Obama's inauguration.

Amusingly, the beer is called Bush.

The best Amazon book review ever:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X2TB3S4O5I60/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

Who knew?!

Which creature of the night are you? Your Result: Sorceror   Control is the name of your game. You are a studied tactician and scientist and you seek a kingdom where things make sense, damn the morals, even if you have to create it. You are cold, calm and calculating.
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A free horse is an oxymoron.

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In another horse magazine I found this Letter to the Editor which sums it up rather bleakly:

While searching for a new horse, I was surprised at the adverts I came across for cheap or free horses. My husband and I consider ourselves competent owners and thought we would take a closer look at a couple of these too good to be true horses. We were shocked by what we discovered.

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As seen on sunfell:

Is Obama the Antichrist? Is this yellow journalism?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/169192

Excuse me while I go cancel my subscription. :(

Gah, people! Can mainstream journalism stoop any lower than this?

To continue with the misbehaving clergy theme:

George Dobson, appointed vicar in 1559, was one of the old clergy who conformed to the various changes of doctrine and worship. He took the oath of the queen's supremacy in religion in 1563. (fn. 103) Yet about the same time he was reported to be 'as ill a vicar as the worst,' (fn. 104) the censure referring partly to his morals, but chiefly to his disposition towards the reformed religion; light on both points is afforded by a complaint of 1575. The document is among the Consistory Court records at Chester. It states:
The vicar of Whalley is a common drunkard and such an ale-knight as the like is not in our parish; and in the night when most men be in bed at their rest then is he in the alehouse with a company like to himself, but not one of them can match him in ale-house tricks, for he will, when he cannot discern black from blue, dance with a full cup on his head, far passing all the rest—a comely sight for his profession.

From: 'The parish of Whalley', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (1911), pp. 349-360. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53131. Date accessed: 10 November 2008.