Disturbing Furniture

Crazy phone message

Yes, this message was left on our answering machine a couple weeks ago. I thought I would share.

Apparently we have "one of those numbers" Since we get a LOT of wrong numbers--and they never seem to listen to the outgoing message which says "You've reached Tim and Trent..."

I have been using FaceBook more recently. But I have also been quiet because we lost our old lady cat, Bruegel Passolini. She was my best buddy for sixteen years. She taught her brother Banjo how to be a kitty (when he thought he was a puppy). She helped me weather two breakups and multiple moves. She helped win over her Daddy Trent. She was the best cat ever. Here are some pictures for those of you not on Facebook:

Ever one to try to bring culture to the masses (snicker on many levels) my latest blog for the DML website is about all the nifty foreign movies Trent and I have seen recently which are now out or are coming out soon on DVD. You can follow this link to read the whole post:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/03/movies-worth-reading.html

OR you can just get out and try to see Tell No One, Waltz With Bashir, I've Loved you So Long, and Let the Right One In. There's something there for everyone! Thriller, taught family drama, animated masterpiece/war movie, ingenious horror flick.

Have fun!

Thanks to elementary school friend Doug Doll for the thirty year old picture of me...I believe I have grown up a little a bit

Me and Dave

Me head

We went out to the Theaytah last evening. What a hoot! We say "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" If you don't' know the musicals of William Finn, this is a great place to start...then you can move on to the "Falsettos" trilogy and "A New Brain" all catchy & touching & fun!

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005 Original Broadway Cast)

William Finn

Before the show, we dined at Thai 9 (where we would eat every evening if moolah permitted) and stopped at the CD shop where I snagged

The Crying Light

Antony and the Johnsons

Been wanting an Antony CD since I heard "You Are My Sister" and this is creepily entrancing and musically complex. Fab! (Also love the label: "Secretly Canadian" that's us!)

Striving to pass on the trivia in my noggin, I wrote another blog for Dayton Metro...books by people famous for other things...you probably know about some of these:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/who-wrote-book-about-what.html

Gotta love Jaime Lee Curtis's children's books...but must laugh at Judge Judy writing a book (on many levels, her titles are worth a giggle in and of themselves).

CaliYearsCover

Here's a cover image...my Trentie is thanked as a producer in Jill Sobule's newest CD...yes, we are music moguls! And you really should buy one (when they're available to the PUBLIC ;-) not only do you get a great CD of Jill's funny, toe-tappin' music...but you also get Trent's name spelled out for you in the liner notes!

California Years (Dig)

Jill Sobule

I have two blog entries over at Dayton Metro Library. The first on a nifty quick and dirty readers' advisory tool I found online (that does movies too) from Germany noless...and the second is all about the Buddhist idea of Mindfulness going secular. Check them out:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/every-book-its-reader.html

Just type in your favorite author and get some suggestions in a spiffy cloud. You can also participate in this projuct by answering quick questions about what you like to read or watch.

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/pervasive-mindfulness.html

Mindfulness has been working its way into every day Western life...here are some good books (relatively new) on the topic...I have more on order about gardening and child rearing...seems second only to "Green" as the topic to talk about.

I have been a weeding (of books) fool at work. TRYING to make it through the shelves and shelves in storage of 100's...philosophy, psychology, parapsychology, and self-help...I make sure the books are in the right place, that we don't have too many copies of titles...and that we don't have outdated or dangerous info. I also mend books as I go.

I noticed on this most recent pass through of the self-helpish area that we had a lot of former best sellers down there. So I thought I would bring them back to the attention of our patrons with a blog entry:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/formerly-bestselling-now-awaiting-your.html

Now I can see if they circulate more :-)

Yes, I AM a Librarian to the core...

Oh, that is RICH! My favorite CNN news story of the day...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/11/bill-ayers-has-an-idea-for-palin/#more-39731

Bill Ayers, the "terrorist" who Sarah Palin said Obama was palling around with, sent Sarah a note after the election suggesting they do a talk show together called "Pallin Around with Sarah and Bill"

I would watch everyday!

On a completely unrealted note...I am speechless at how fundamentally juvenile and stupid Congressional Republicans are. Eight years they spend ramming their legislation down our throats and look where it's gotten us. They are asked to help draft this bailout legislation...and like a kick-ball-loving five year old whose asked to play dodgeball instead of kickball--they want to take their ball and go home (except for Spector and the intelligent ladies from Maine)...I do hope that when the midterm elections roll around every parent in America remembers that one of the sticking points for Republicans was funding TO BUILD NEW SCHOOLS.

Yes, they don't want to give the states money for the building of new schools...600,000,000,000 and counting for a baseless war is OK...but an additional 10,000,000,000 to educate our kids in buildings that aren't falling down, Republicans say NO.

Lovely.