Lesen

Seven days since my last post, and all I have to show for it is another cheatin' entry. But what do you expect from a boy that's too busy being happy to post in a blog?

As part of a farewell gift (the other half was 2-3 pounds of various mints) my coworkers got me a gift card for Barnes & Noble. Items purchased so far are:

• Tesla: Man Out of Time, by Margaret Cheney - one of the strangest geniuses of our time....and now I've got a biography!
  
• The Cook's Encyclopedia of Vegetarian Cooking, by Linda Fraser - I think the reason I couldn't maintain full-vegetarianism was my lack of knowledge about vegetarian cooking. Frankly, I know almost 3X as many ways to cook dishes containing chicken as I do ways to cook vegetables alone. Hopefully this book will help me get cookin' *rimshot* on vegetarianism. All the recipes make me salivate....
  
• Quartet, Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan - OK, this isn't really a book, it's a CD. But one of the reasons I love Barnes & Noble so much is that it's a bookstore AND a music store! Who could ask for more!? Actually, it would be nice if B&N had some of the more obscure books, but I digress. This album was recorded in 1957, several years after Mulligan played with Brubeck's quartet and met Desmond. These two sax greats have amazing chemistry together and so far I *heart* this recording. It's even better than Two of a Mind!
  

And I've still got $15 left on the gift card! Three cheers for finding good books in the "bargain" section.

After the bookstore I walked the mile home through burning hell. It wasn't so bad on the way to the store, since I was tearing right along in my anticipation of wandering through an entire building of books for a few hours. But on the way back I was just anxious to start reading and listening, so the trip through the 90 degree heat seemed to take forever. Stupid East Bay. Why can't you be more cloudy and rainy?

Posted on July 14, 2002 10:50 PM