Kevin Bacon

It looks like Ryan Golsing's abs just got one degree closer to Kevin Bacon...



I postface this post by noting this movie is a guilty pleasure not my movie genre of choice.

Word of the Day: COMMAND

com·mand (k-mnd)
v. com·mand·ed, com·mand·ing, com·mands
v.tr.
1. To direct with authority; give orders to.
2. To have control or authority over; rule: a general who commands an army.
3. To have at one's disposal: a person who commands seven languages.
4. To deserve and receive as due; exact: The troops' bravery commanded respect.
5.
a. To exercise dominating, authoritative influence over: "He commands any room he enters" (Stephen Schiff).
b. To dominate by physical position; overlook: a mountain commanding the valley below.
v.intr.
1. To give orders.
2. To exercise authority or control as or as if one is a commander.
n.
1. The act of commanding.
2. An order given with authority.
3. Computer Science A signal that initiates an operation defined by an instruction.
4.
a. The authority to command: an admiral in command.
b. Possession and exercise of the authority to command: command of the seas.
5. Ability to control or use; mastery: command of four languages.
6. Dominance by location; extent of view.
7.
a. The jurisdiction of a commander.
b. A military unit, post, district, or region under the control of one officer.
c. A unit of the U.S. Air Force that is larger than an air force.
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or constituting a command: command headquarters; a command decision.
2. Done or performed in response to a command: a command performance.


Get out there and command something people!

April, the National Grilled Cheese Month

A month dedicated to my favourite sandwich... I'm in!

A whole event dedicated to the sandwich? AMAZING!!! I know where I'll be next year.

Grilled Cheese Invitational

I love college

I think I may have missed out on something when I was in college.

Delft- Hollywood Style

Delft just made the list for May... to celebrate I made my loving husband (poor soul) sit through all 100 minutes of the movie adaptation of one of the greatest portraits... At least I feel better prepared (culturally speaking) to walk the canal streets...

Patriotism

I am so proud to be Canadian....

TIME to get reading...

ALL TIME 100 Novels


A - B

* The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow
* All the King's Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren
* American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth
* An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser
* Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell
* Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O'Hara
* Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970), by Judy Blume
* The Assistant (1957), by Bernard Malamud
* At Swim-Two-Birds (1938), by Flann O'Brien
* Atonement (2002), by Ian McEwan
* Beloved (1987), by Toni Morrison
* The Berlin Stories (1946), by Christopher Isherwood
* The Big Sleep (1939), by Raymond Chandler
* The Blind Assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood
* Blood Meridian (1986), by Cormac McCarthy
* Brideshead Revisited (1946), by Evelyn Waugh
* The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), by Thornton Wilder

C - D

* Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth
* Catch-22 (1961), by Joseph Heller
* The Catcher in the Rye (1951), by J.D. Salinger
* A Clockwork Orange (1963), by Anthony Burgess
* The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), by William Styron
* The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen
* The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), by Thomas Pynchon
* A Dance to the Music of Time (1951), by Anthony Powell
* The Day of the Locust (1939), by Nathanael West
* Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather
* A Death in the Family (1958), by James Agee
* The Death of the Heart (1958), by Elizabeth Bowen
* Deliverance (1970), by James Dickey
* Dog Soldiers (1974), by Robert Stone

F - G

* Falconer (1977), by John Cheever
* The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), by John Fowles
* The Golden Notebook (1962), by Doris Lessing
* Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), by James Baldwin
* Gone With the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell
* The Grapes of Wrath (1939), by John Steinbeck
* Gravity's Rainbow (1973), by Thomas Pynchon
* The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald

H - I

* A Handful of Dust (1934), by Evelyn Waugh
* The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), by Carson McCullers
* The Heart of the Matter (1948), by Graham Greene
* Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow
* Housekeeping (1981), by Marilynne Robinson
* A House for Mr. Biswas (1962), by V.S. Naipaul
* I, Claudius (1934), by Robert Graves
* Infinite Jest (1996), by David Foster Wallace
* Invisible Man (1952), by Ralph Ellison

L - N

* Light in August (1932), by William Faulkner
* The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), by C.S. Lewis
* Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov
* Lord of the Flies (1955), by William Golding
* The Lord of the Rings (1954), by J.R.R. Tolkien
* Loving (1945), by Henry Green
* Lucky Jim (1954), by Kingsley Amis
* The Man Who Loved Children (1940), by Christina Stead
* Midnight's Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie
* Money (1984), by Martin Amis
* The Moviegoer (1961), by Walker Percy
* Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf
* Naked Lunch (1959), by William Burroughs
* Native Son (1940), by Richard Wright
* Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson
* Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
* 1984 (1948), by George Orwell

O - R

* On the Road (1957), by Jack Kerouac
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), by Ken Kesey
* The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski
* Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov
* A Passage to India (1924), by E.M. Forster
* Play It As It Lays (1970), by Joan Didion
* Portnoy's Complaint (1969), by Philip Roth
* Possession (1990), by A.S. Byatt
* The Power and the Glory (1939), by Graham Greene
* The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), by Muriel Spark
* Rabbit, Run (1960), by John Updike
* Ragtime (1975), by E.L. Doctorow
* The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis
* Red Harvest (1929), by Dashiell Hammett
* Revolutionary Road (1961), by Richard Yates

S - T

* The Sheltering Sky (1949), by Paul Bowles
* Slaughterhouse Five (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut
* Snow Crash (1992), by Neal Stephenson
* The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), by John Barth
* The Sound and the Fury (1929), by William Faulkner
* The Sportswriter (1986), by Richard Ford
* The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964), by John le Carre
* The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway
* Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston
* Things Fall Apart (1959), by Chinua Achebe
* To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee
* To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf
* Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry Miller

U - W

* Ubik (1969), by Philip K. Dick
* Under the Net (1954), by Iris Murdoch
* Under the Volcano (1947), by Malcolm Lowry
* Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
* White Noise (1985), by Don DeLillo
* White Teeth (2000), by Zadie Smith
* Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys


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