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deathly hallows

wutang — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:00:34 +0000

stupid canada post didn’t deliver my copy of the last harry potter book until around 2pm on sat but that didn’t stop me from doing a marathon session and finishing it later that night.

its good. harry’s still his whiny, clueless self but the story progresses along great and lingering questions are answered, threads are tied up, tons of people die and the ending was, while not unexpected, satisfying.

green

wutang — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:09:40 +0000

the universe has aligned against me to go green this week. during my little trip through peru, i had spent some time at a cafe in Cusco where they had this book called earth from above. it had amazing photos in it and i made a note to try and find it. well find it i did and in a monster coffee table book version which i finally broke down and bought from amazon. it showed up this week.

then a much anticipated DVD dropped this week as well. planet earth which has some of the most amazing imagery i’ve seen in a while. crazy time lapse and super duper slow-mo shots. i don’t usually watch nature shows but this one has been keeping me entertained (monkeys are funny). so anyways, shopping at costco (whose return policy rocks by the way) and there it was staring me in the face so i had to buy it.

then there’s the sorry excuse for a green initiative the canadian government announced this week.

and then i saw a picture of aston martin’s new racing team in…green.

then i was given a pair of shoes that i’ve been searching for. the adidas mark gonzales superskates in blue/yellow. blue and yellow combined make…green

its all going green…

blind

wutang — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:20:18 +0000

so i was introduced to the royal magazine about two years ago and loved it but have only been able to find one other copy since. now i find out that they’ve got a website (duh) and have full PDF issues of their magazine posted. yay! i’m usually pretty good at finding things online but how i missed this i don’t know.

they’re part of the KDU collective which i’m also a fan of, especially SVSV, which i wish i could afford. oh well…

memoirs of a geisha

wutang — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:48:59 +0000

the shortage of books in my house is starting to affect me. i think after growing breasts from reading the devil wears prada, i think my testicles have shrunk after reading this one. but i needed something to read at the beach and the girlfriend had raved about it so i brought it along.

the books was okay if a little over the top in its descriptive prose. i will give the author credit in that he really makes you believe that the story is real. of course the dvd showed up on the kitchen table the other night and boy did that suck. lets just leave it at that.

the devil wears prada

wutang — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:22:01 +0000

i have this love/hate thing with the summer. love it because its all sunny and warm and bright. girls have ditched all their winter overcoats for light strappy things. patios, beaches, beer, bbqs, all the usual great things about summer. hate it because it means allergy season and boy does that suck. normally whatever i’m allergic to seems to be at its worst during april but for some reason yesterday turned out to be a particularly heinous attack.

so i ditched work so i could go home and stuff toilet paper up my nose. just call me “plugs”. well when you’re in as much discomfort as i was and have difficulty breathing due to mucousy blockages, sleep doesn’t really come easily so i had to find ways to occupy my time.

nothing was on tv, i was all internet-ed out and all the books in my possession worth reading have been read at least twice. so i turned to the girlfriends collection. mostly shopping and fashion books but she did have two actual works of fiction. memoirs of a geisha and the devil wears prada. i decided on the latter since she was still reading memoirs. i think i grew breasts by the time i was finished the book.

(what you wanted a book review? pfft. go pick up a new yorker or something)