Wikipedia Trawling: Today’s Special
Like a frenetic gardener spraying dirt around with a rusty spade, my brain likes to dig up random memories. Some of these memories are like corpulent, gooey larvae that have been mashed up by the…
Author: Ellie Coral
Sounds Stuck in My Brain: March 7, 2024 Edition
Can’t Get Enough of Your Love – Barry White (YouTube) If you’re of a certain age, you may remember a time when you couldn’t get away from Barry White’s music, which wasn’t entirely a bad…
Book Review Haiku
Do you like books? I hope you do, or you’re wasting your time on this blog. Do you like reading long book reviews? So do I. I also hate writing them. But I’ve been meaning…
Library Adventures: February 21, 2024
Another Wednesday, another stint done in the Friends of the Library workroom, and another list of books to read one day. One day. But first, a short story. Dear Mary Ann + Family, Merry Christmas.…
Library Adventures: February 14, 2024
Despite being a married woman, I have no fondness for Valentine’s Day. Chocolates make me sigh in disgust at the lack of creativity. Red and pink roses may as well be greyscale for all their…
YouTube Video of the Day: February 13, 2024 Edition
Doug Rambles on AI Art/AI Art Saved My Sanity Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the middle of a mountain peak in the furthest reaches humans have ever known… well, how are you…
Sounds Stuck In My Brain: February 6, 2024 Edition
In A Gadda Da Vida – Iron Butterfly (Original 1968 full version) (YouTube) I do love some old psych music. Some of it is too trippy for my liking, which tells me that I have…
Reading I’ve Been Doing Online: January 31, 2024 Edition
Stuff I think you should check out MST3K Annotated: 912 The Screaming Skull I love it when research has me revisiting fun times. While skimming the MST3K Annotated site for ideas on how to describe…
Library Adventures: January 17, 2024
The Friends of the Library has possibly been the most enjoyable reason to get out of the house, because my day job certainly hasn’t claimed that honor. Rather than simply show up for deeply discounted…
New Ideas for an Old Blog
The Deal A personal blog going through a new direction in a new year for a woman who’s trying to become a new version of herself. The Idea Tired of microblogging about a single webtoon…