This book was quite entertaining, and most of the stories were strong. These short stories were a great twist to the old myths – ranging from funny, to mildy chilling, to downright silly. Definitely a great light read!

Health officials: Toddler died from tainted spinach A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 192 people and killed one woman in a nationwide outbreak, health officials said Thursday. Kyle Allgood was the second confirmed death in the outbreak, which also killed an elderly Wisconsin woman. Where's the article on the elderly woman? Oh wait, I forgot. Old people aren't as important as teh childrun. The toddler became ill after having a fresh spinach smoothie, according to his mother, Robyn Allgood. Well hell.…

So my paid LiveJournal account expires in three days. What with the SixApart changes and all, and having my neatokeen wordpress blog that's more or less completely under my control, I'm really starting to wonder if a paid account is worth it. I don't use voice posts. Polls are cool, but I think I could rig them up on my site, if I wanted to. The livejournal forward email, though useful, is no big deal to me. In fact, I've noticed that recently (Huh, since the buy out) I've been getting spam email directly to the livejournal email address. Cutting…