I am taking photos of my surroundings with Kodak Easyshare CD82 Blue 12MP Digital Camera. Not too sure about the easy part but with enough Photoshop filters any picture can look good.

Oscar Cocktails

The BBC has posted recipes for three alcohol free cocktails created for the Oscars. The recipes are in a pdf file.

Warm Photo

What a wonderful picture of Madeleine L'Engle with her dog and cat.

I began looking up the Redwall series by Brian Jacques and somehow was looking at the T. A. Barron pages. T.A. Barron said that he liked to read anything by Madeleine L'Engle and so I looked up her web site. I have not read any books by any of these authors. Madeleine L'Engle wears comfortable clothes. There is another picture of her and a dog in the library of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Man Booker Prize Shortlist

I have made a separate page for the Shortlist of the Man Booker Prize. The Master made it to the shortlist.

I also added a page for Dark Shadows DVD Collections.There are fifteen collections published so far. I watched that show from early 1969 (or 1968?) to the end. In the first episode I saw, Quintin, the 19th-century David Selby character, had just returned to Collinwood. His older brother Edward said he had threated to kill him if he ever returned. Quintin seems to have run off with Edward's wife who was also a phoenix. I really enjoyed the literary references to Henry James, Poe, and just about every other gothic source imaginable. You'd think someone would notice the jail in the cellar. What a funny show! I liked the time-travelling when characters would go into a room and enter another time period. You never know who would be behind a door or what would be going on. The wide-eyed children based partly on the characters in "The Turn of the Screw" were always seeing shocking things.

Man Booker Prize Long List

In my bookstore I have the 22 tiltes of the Man Booker Prize long list linked to Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk when they are available.

The only title I am familiar with is The Master by Colm Toibin. From reading a few reviews I have the impression that this book is somewhat unfair to Henry James. But that's artistic license.

Orca Sportswear Wallpaper

A New Zealand company that designed sportswear for the Olympics has some nice wallpaper on their web site. I heard about them on a BBC news program. They feature some very attractive black and white clothing designs.

ballotprintable_2004.pdf

There is a printable ballot for the Oscars in a pdf file at ballotprintable_2004.pdf