No clue on stick blenders, unfortunately, Perkins.

I do, however, have over 150 paperback romances you can take off my hands! I'm in the midst of weeding out my bookshelves to try and reduce the number of boxes the movers will need to schlep over to my new place (which I paid for a credit check for today--Wo0t!), and the paperback romance bookshelf is going to get cleaned out if I can do anything about it. Unfortunately, I've gotten rid of all the romances I can, and must keep these last 225 (yes, I counted while reviewing the titles to see if there were any more I could part with, and yes, I'm a pathetic bibliophile if this is only a small fraction of my book collection).

But, I might be able to move these books from the 6'H x 4'W slightly wobbly bookshelf my dad slapped together for me back in 1993 for my first apartment to the 4'H x 2.5'W one, leaving me with "just" four other bookshelves to go through and try to reduce to four bookshelves total to move. Yay!

Thanks for the recs!

I didn't catch the Daily Show, but couldn't agree more that there is none more awesome than Studs Terkel.

He was great on TDS, and as any true raconteur would be, was very disappointed that he had no time to talk about Bush or Delay!

I loved the Studs Terkel interview-- "I can tell the president to bugger off, and that is being an American."

holy crap, why did I think Studs Terkle was dead?

Now I'm all excited he's not.

(Okay seriously folks -- nobody thinks that a company called Cyberdyne building a robot named HAL is asking for trouble? NOBODY?)

Going back a ways, I'm not sure if I'd be more or less troubled if it was Yoyodyne instead.

Don't worry. As long as the robots have a blinking light that tell you when they're evil, we should all be OK.

"Here's your problem, buddy. Somebody set this thing to 'Evil'."

OK, it's snowing. the blah factor of the day is complete.