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Happy Independence Day! (Feel more like Independence Week around here. There hasn't been a night since Friday that someone hasn't set off fireworks.) Hope everyone has a great day and stays cool!
It's Friday the Thirteenth! To everyone attending ComicCon: I am intensely jealous right now. It's the only time of year I hate living on the East Coast. In TV news, White Collar season four premiered this week. I'm still at the beginning of season three so I'm thinking a marathon is in order this weekend. Covert Affairs season three also premiered and I'm not really sure how I feel about the direction the show is going. Song of the Week: Circle of Life by Elton John (Not sure why, but I've been on kind of a Disney song kick lately.) Must read: Wall Street Journal: Tweets from Pixar's School of Plotting A storyboard artist for the movie, Brave , on the basics of storytelling News: Clockwork Princess cover reveal ! LOVE! Tessa, the angel, the dress, the book! SO AWESOME! Firefly is getting a TENTH ANNIVERSARY TV SPECIAL ! It's been announced that the Mockingjay movie is going to be split into two parts. I'm getting really sick
I'm back! I made a New Year's resolution last year to start blogging three times a week. Obviously, like many resolutions, it crashed and burned. But a 2016 resolution is not why I'm here. Hamilton is. If you haven't heard of it, it's a rap/hip hop Broadway musical about one of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. Sounds boring? Sounds weird? I thought so too. Trust me. I listened to the full cast recording three times in two days and my favorite songs countless times in between. I have plans to see it live in the eventual future. Interested? I have two recommendations: Number 1: My favorite song and the one that actually got me into the musical in the first place Number 2: From the beginning
When I was a kid, my favorite store in the mall closest to our house was a Waldenbooks. When I say "closest to our house" this particular mall was still roughly 30 minutes away, but in those days it was the mall that everyone went to. There are more than a few things I loved about country living. Lack of proximity to bookstores was not one of them. I loved that Waldenbooks. It was a small store and you could see all the way to the back looking through the glass front. It was filled with books, as you would expect. The counter was on the left side, with a wall of new releases and magazines behind it. My favorite section--the young adult and middle grade section--was at the back. The trip that I remember most was July 21, 2007. A week before my birthday. The release day for Deathly Hallows. I'd pre-ordered it long before, not wanting to risk going into the bookstore and it not being there. I needed that book. My mom didn't understand the draw of a midnight releas
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