Oy, having to buy clothes mostly online for the kids right now-- they're both big for their ages and their tastes actually run towards real kidswear, not Streetwalker and Thug Lite.

Thank God for Lands End, is all I can say. Even L.L. Bean failed me here with respect to Nate.

Leif just told me he wanted a bow and some flaming arrows. I told him I didn't think that was a good idea. We don't storm castles on Sundays.

We don't storm castles on Sundays.

Good plan.

Well, The Telegraph is pretty narrow-minded and conservative as broadsheets go, but it's not The Weekly World News. I mean, I don't think they'd run something like that if it was some spurious piece of nonsense. They're not an 'Aliens Ate My Baby' kind of publication. They're more a "We miss good old Maggie Thatcher" flavour of evil.

That said, the whole eyeteeth situation is making my head explode with the OMGWTF crazy disturbing SciFiness.

At Wimbledon, there's no tie-breaker in the fifth set , right?

Oh, hey, Fay - I've been reading some Iain M. Banks lately, and I saw that you mentioned him in Literary. I'm close to finishing Matter, and before that I read Consider Phlebas. Then I need something else by him to read. I think I'll stick to the Culture novels for now - any recommendations on what to read next?

Well, that answers that question.

DH just called me to thank me for insisting he stop working and watch the match earlier.

It's getting... interesting.

Ginger, he is originally from Kosciusko County. He left in the sixties to move to California--his worst exploits were in San Diego. He founded WAR and ran for congress while he was there. It was after he lost a huge civil suit for encouraging a group of Portland skinheads to beat a man to death with a baseball bat that he lost everything and had to move back home. He now lives in his mother's house, which he inherited.

Sue, thanks for the link!

Barb, we rely very heavily on Lands End, along with Kohls and Target.

Eyeteeth! FREAKY!