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brought the babies to my in-laws and harry and i went out for a little bonding time. we went to petsmart and bought some stuff for the snakes and now two lizards (a green anode and a house gecko). we also went to barnes and noble and i perused rock snob's dictionary and a collection of essays by chuck klosterman. although i enjoyed both of these books very much i cannot fathom laying down $40 for both of them. i will buy new books for the kids because i went them to get into reading but i rarely ever buy a book new for myself.

i did not watch the bush speech last night. whenever i see him on tv talking i have to turn the channel and if i am listening to npr and they have a snippet of him talking i have to turn the station until it is over. i cannot listen to him speak. i hate the sound of his voice. i hate his smug little looks. i hate his attempts to look sincere. i hate he and karl rove's attempts to paint this whole fiasco as the fault of liberals. (if you have noticed from my past political rants the f-word will start flying out coz i will get so worked up....) i don't think we should have invaded IRAQ but seriously i have no idea what to do now that we are stuck there. can we just pull up and out?

i have yet to watch any of the AFI movies. in fact i haven't watched any movies in a long while. i do watch lots of blue's clues, maisy, baby einstein, little bear. i actually don't mind them. they are on the noggin channel which is a no commercial kid's channel and in-between shows the have kid videos w/ videos by laurie berkner, dan zanes, elizabeth mitchell and lisa loeb. we have the whole laurie berkner collection. i have always hated raffi and never understood how parents saw him as someone who appeals to kids and adults. i like dan zanes stuff too. i have always felt rather lukewarm about they might be giants but i bought their ABC's DVD. there is some indie rock from Chicago that does kid stuff too that i mean to check out.

i haven't finished ARROWSMITH either. i am still working on it. i am currently reading SILENT BOB SPEAKS by kevin smith. it is a collection of his essays for Arena magazine. i like kevin smith quite a bit. you must rent the DVD of him speaking at various colleges. say what you will about his work as a filmmaker---the man can tell a funny damn story. if you can watch dave chappelle's show with charlie murphy and his true hollywood story about prince and then watch the kevin smith tell his story about working with prince. kevin smith also tells a great story about his 'fight' with tim burton.

even though i don't travel i got this lonely planet's book of travel experiments. what it is is a book full of things to do for fun when you travel no matter where it is. one is to ask somebody for their favorite drink and bar and go there and order the drink and then ask the bartender her favorite bar and drink and go there and do the same over and over. if i did travel and did not have four kids perhaps i would do these things.

i really want to get the new album by FEIST. i guess it is this singer from toronto that used to be a punk singer and just released this soft kind of folky album. i also like everything i have heard off of the new shelby lynne. i thought the last couple of hers kinda sucked.

must go pick up my babies. i try to embarrass my son by rolling down the windows in the mini-van and blaring KISS. then i try to make him sing along. it makes me laugh.