Monthly Archives: September 2010

September: The month of monkeys, book bloggers, Rachael Ray and Margaret Bourke-White

It’s been a slow month for Unfinished Person and Unfinished Rambler. This month so far, and counting today’s post, we’ve only had 18 posts. That doesn’t mean, though, that it hasn’t been a quality month, especially with Unfinished Person writing posts for Book Blogger Appreciation Week.

The top two posts for that week, based on number of views, were:

Unfinished Rambler, meanwhile, led the way with posts with the most views with three:

  1. Rachael Ray and her Glasgow smile: Again, this post just continues to climb the stats and now is the No. 4 post (counting “Home Page”) in number of views all-time on the blog. Go visit it now and maybe it will reach No. 2 soon.
  2. I am the Monkey King, I can do anything: Where Unfinished Rambler sees the image of a monkey king in…well, you’ll just have to read the post to find out where.
  3. The post where I disillusion myself that I am a blogger: Unfinished Rambler finds humor in a situation that at least one commenter didn’t think was so funny. For the record, at least, one of us (ahem, Unfinished Person) thought the commenter had a point.

We also want to give a special shout-out to our most popular post in views all-time next to the ever-present “Home Page”:  Margaret Bourke-White: Breadline during the Louisville Flood, Kentucky 1937.  We didn’t even write it. All that it is is a reposting of a photo from a site called Masters of Photography, reposted with permission under the policies of the site. Just thinking out loud: If we reposted more photos like this, with the appropriate permission, of course, maybe it would catapult us into the blogosphere stratosphere. Oh, well, we can dream anyway.

A quick look back at my reading in September

My goal this month was to read five books and, lo and behold, as if this is a big surprise, I made it.

The five books were:

  1. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
  2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
  3. Purple Jesus by Ron Cooper
  4. What’s The Worst That Could Happen? by Donald E. Westlake
  5. Between A Wok And A Hard Place by Tamar Myers

The first two were the end of trilogies; the last two, continuation of a series; and the third, a stand-alone novel by an independent author. The Ron Cooper novel also was an advanced reader’s copy to which I invited to read by J.C. Montgomery of The Biblio Blogazine in a Goodreads discussion group. I’ve finished the book, but the discussion group is still going, so I’m holding off on the review, possibly next week.

The last one was a part of the Pennsylvania-Dutch Mystery with Recipes series by Tamar Myers, and was one of several a patron at the library where I work donated for our library book sale, but said I could read first if I wanted. I mentioned to her in passing that I enjoyed this series by Myers, and then a few weeks later, she brought in almost all of the series, excluding a few of the last ones.

Tomorrow, I give a review of my most popular posts this month, not that I had much from which to choose, with only 16 posts, but I’ll still give you a review.

Patron of the Week: Mrs. I-Just-Wanted-To-Let-You-Know-These-Audiobooks-I’m-Donating-Use-Curse-Words

 

Graphic for button from New Media Consortium on Flickr

 

This week’s Patron of the Week comes from the Land of the Puritans.

Please say hello to Mrs. I-Just-Wanted-To-Let-You-Know-These-Audiobooks-I’m-Donating-Use-Curse-Words.

On Thursday, a woman stopped by the library to donate a bag of audiobooks.  She left, but then returned a minute later to whisper the following warning to our circulation librarian:

“I just wanted to let you know: There’s cursing on some of those, especially the James Patterson. You might want to warn people because if they’re listening to one and driving down the road, they might be shocked and it could cause an accident.”

I just hope that she didn’t donate this audiobook:

 

Barack Obama: Dreams From My Father (Cover)

Image by Idhren via Flickr

 

It might cause both Democrats and Republicans to have an accident, at least the ones who haven’t listened to Molly Ivins or P.J. O’Rourke. Just listen to these two samples culled from April Winchell’s blog post on the subject:

At the least, I would think it would make someone’s hair curl.

And, of course, if this

 

 

Obama & Palin 'Dancing With The Stars'

Image by Photo Giddy via Flickr

 

happened, that would be enough to make anyone’s hair to curl.

My hairs are just twitching at the sight of that, and I think I’d do some cursing myself if it did happen.

 

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I am the Monkey King, I can do anything

The other day while in the shower…wait, don’t worry, this is not one of THOSE posts, and has nothing to do with me and my monkey (take it easy)…but anyway, the other day while in the shower, I noticed this on the wall:

Face in razor

and it freaked me the hell out, because if you look closely, you can see a face in the razor. Not only is it a face, but it is the face of the Monkey King:

Monkey King

Not to be confused with Monkeyboy or Monkeyman. For more about me, click on my photo.

He even has a song:

Um, yes, I do have issues. Would you like some? I have more enough than to go around for the rest of you.