Interests of the Week

Left for Dead: Nicole is the household gamer, but after buying a second controller for our Xbox, I started joining her on the campaigns to kill zombies (er, infected, as to not use the zed word). I'm actually growing to a point where I'm not too bad at the game, with the possible exception of when my finger slips and I shoot Nicole in the back of the head. Whoops.

Kid Silver - Dead City Sunbeams: I bought this CD ten years ago and instantly made it part of my excessive rotation. At one point back then, I had accidentally left the CD at work over the weekend and, missed hearing it so much, that I debated strongly about driving to the office to retrieve it (I didn't, but appreciate the glorious days in which we live where digital copies of songs are readily available on many pieces of hardware). Some random thought brought the music back into my head, and since then I've been listening to it practically nonstop...again.

Roald Dahl - Skin and Other Stories: I'm about five stories into this collection. In my early days, I had the misconception that Dahl was a happy-go-lucky writer of silly stories like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory until I learned that, 1. the Charlie book is kinda messed up in itself, and 2. Dahl is a pretty dark writer. Skin is proving to be no exception.

Link: Starts with a Bang, an astrophysics science blog that is very well written and informative (although I don't know what is up with the American Gladiator costume for the professor / writer in his bio).