Many thanks to for the heads up to this link: http://magnatune.com Streaming music. Indie bands. Good stuff.

Prompted by a discussion in this post, I decided to post the Scary Passage Of the Year here: All those women having jobs: hard to imagine, now, but thousands of them had jobs, millions. It was considered the normal thing. Now it's like remembering the paper money, when they still had that. My mother kept some of it, pasted into her scrapbook along with the early photos. It was obsolete by then, you couldn't buy anything with it. Pieces of paper, thickish, greasy to the touch, green-colored, with pictures on each side, some old man in a wig and on…

I almost feel as if I'm accomplishing something! Here's what I'm in the midst of: digging through the papers on my desk, shredding and filing trying to set up gnucash to get a handle on money finding all recent car receipts to get my car minder back up to date paying bills working on taxes So, of course I need to make a post about the books in my To Be Read stack! The Magus – John Fowles; currently reading for Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser; been meaning to read this for a while. Maybe my McDonald's craving will…