Neil Gaiman blogged today about this book, and it looks very interesting to me, and i'm planning to get it.

It's got an unfinished Lemony Snicket story for you to finish and send it to for a chance to win ... something.

If anyone gets it before me, or is able to attend the six city extravaganza (Info is linked on the above site) they're having for it, then please let me know about it.


"N O I S Y O U T L A W S ,
U N F R I E N D L Y B L O B S , A N D S O M E O T H E R T H I N G S . . .

That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out...."

From the Onion
Aries March 21 - April 19
It still seems that for every step forward, you take two to the side, three back, and then trip and fall off the side of a building, hitting the fire escape several times on the way down.

Taurus April 20 - May 20
You'll learn a lot about yourself this week, including the exact tensile strength of each of your ribs, the temperature at which your nasal cartilage melts, and where your fear of commitment comes from.

Gemini May 21 - June 21
While it's true that no one asked you if you wanted to be born, you must realize that's because you would have made a lot of demands as to when, where, and to whom.

Cancer June 22 - July 22
You will be offered the chance to make amends with everyone you've ever wronged, but the stars are putting good money on your deciding not to.

Leo July 23 - August 22
Drinking is not the answer to your problems. However, since sex addiction is in fact the answer to all your problems, your lifestyle need not change.

Virgo August 23 - September 22
It is neither sentience nor a sense of humor that separates us from the animals. Turns out it's actually celebrity zookeeper Jack Hanna.

Libra September 23 - October 23
Your tactics of overwhelming your opposition with spectacular shows of force and choking the roads with fleeing refugees will be seen as inappropriate by the other electronics wholesalers.

Scorpio October 24 - November 21
You know that people change when they have children. That said, your transformation will be particularly remarkable when you discover you have two dozen of them, all with special needs.

Sagittarius November 22 - December 21
Your self-destructive behavior resumes this week when you run out of anything else to destroy.

Capricorn December 22 - January 19
Your sudden and extreme maritime promotion can be traced less to competence and seamanship than to the tradition of captains going down with the ship.

Aquarius January 20 - February 18
When all is said and done, everyone will have to admit that, while it might not have been worth the loss of your arm, you were right about caribou.

Pisces February 19 - March 20
Taking some time off is fine, necessary even, but before you know it, three months have gone by and you haven't killed any more nurses.

Found this bit of sad information on Boing Boing

Len Dresslar has died.

During a 40-year broadcasting career, Len Dresslar voiced the Jolly Green Giant and other advertising characters, sang commercial jingles, recorded jazz albums and even performed on a live television variety show airing nightly from Chicago.

The key to his long, varied career was his rich, booming voice, family members said.

"He had a great voice -- bass, very deep," his daughter Teri Bennett said.

Mr. Dresslar died Sunday in California. He was 80.

Beginning in the 1950s, when he moved to Chicago, Mr. Dresslar sang and spoke in a variety of TV and radio commercials for familiar products and brands.

He spoke or sang in commercials for United Airlines, Rice Krispies, Marlboro and Kent cigarettes. He boomed out "ho, ho, ho" in Jolly Green Giant commercials that aired for decades

Today I was talking with my girls about their teachers at Fort Mojave Elementary School, and I comented on how much I like Kaitlin's teacher. Kristen then chimed in with "She's not nice.. she took Kaitlin's bracelet". I glanced at Kaitlin, and indeed, her bracelet was gone.

It was her Italian Charm bracelet that Brian had gotten for her. She's had it since January, never taken it off, and for anyone who has ever had a 7 year old, you know what an accomplishment it was that she never broke or lost it.

It seems that Kaitlin's teacher saw fit to take Kaitlin's bracelet. Not for playing with it in class, not for disrupting the classroom with it, but for forgetting her folder.

Mind you, Kaitlin doesn't regularily forget her folder either.. She's a very responsible young lady - Far more so than her older sister.

It really angered me alot. Kaitlin isn't someone that has alot, and this bracelet means alot to her.

I've been practicing assertiveness, but I didn't use what I have learned when I wrote the note to her teacher in Kaitlin's agenda. I was more along the agressive side, and I was so angry that my hands were shaking.

"I want Kaitlin's Italian Charm bracelet back now." I wrote, and continued with, "It was a gift, and she's ever taken it off. Do NOT ever take her personal property again. This is a school, not a prison, and just who do you think you are? I am very angry."

I'll let you know if she gets it back, and what sort of response I get. My mom is betting that it is "lost" now.

Snagged from nelle816

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