Day: August 12, 2010

Thursday is the new Tuesday, too

Another day like pretty much any other. I finished reading Half the Blood of Brooklyn, which was quick and bloody, if maybe not quite as good as the two books before it. I didn’t move directly into the next book in the series, though, despite having a copy with me on the train. I think I need to take a short break, even just for a day or two, from Joe Pitt and his fellow New York vampires.

We had a fair amount of rain here today, but it was actually quite pleasant because of it. As temperatures have come down recently — and after the hot July we had, where else could temperatures go? — the humidity seems to have cranked back up. But with the rain came a pretty nice breeze and pleasant walking-around-Manhattan weather. (So it’s good those vampires are fake…right?)

Anyway, happy as always that tomorrow is Friday.

Thursday various

  • Scholars beware!

    Experts on the various fungi that feed on the pages and on the covers of books are increasingly convinced that you can get high–or at least a little wacky–by sniffing old books. Fungus on books, they say, is a likely source of hallucinogenic spores. [via]

  • I have to admit, I didn’t immediately understand this video (a collaboration with NPR’s Radiolab), but I liked it enough to re-watch from the beginning once my brain kicked in. [via]
  • I have no idea if the new Scott Pilgrim movie will be any good or not. Some say awesome, some not so much. I know this will lose me some indie geek cred, but I’ve been stuck halfway through the first volume for several months, not particularly loving it. That said, I can totally get behind this:

    There’s no reason to be angry at the people you imagine a movie will make happy just because you didn’t like the movie. [via]

  • Oh come on, it’s an honest mistake. [via]
  • And finally, I need to start riding the subways more often!