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fnac is open!

12 Saturday May 2007

Posted by azahar in books & writing, films, media, music, retail therapy, sevilla

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Avenida de la Constitución 8
41001 Sevilla

And it seems to fit in just fine with the ‘new look’ Avenida de la Constitución, so the worries I expressed over here last month turned out to be unfounded.

It also has a very good selection of DVDs and CDs. Lots of cool electronic and computer stuff. And they even sell vinyl records! The English book section is a bit small but I did manage to find a Terry Pratchett book I haven’t yet read. Anyhow, I think it’s a rather nice addition to Sevilla.

How do you like the new trams? This one is just for show as they aren’t operating yet. Apparently they will be removing the overhead cables within the year and we’ll be getting battery operated trams – not quite sure what happened there.

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Now if they’d just blow-up all the Starbucks that have sprouted like vile mushrooms all down the Avenida . . .

25 top trips

05 Saturday May 2007

Posted by azahar in books & writing, holidays, life stuff, trips

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The Rough Guide is 25 years old.

In this Guardian article they list their top 25 trips, the first one being island hopping in Greece, which is something I’ve always wanted to do. I haven’t travelled all that much, though I’ve moved around quite a bit. I guess my favourite trip so far has been Barcelona, though I’m thinking that the upcoming trip to Lisbon might end up topping it.

What are some of the best trips you’ve ever taken?
Or dream locations you would love to visit?

be an instant writer!

03 Thursday May 2007

Posted by azahar in books & writing, fun stuff, humour, language, weird

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Just add water . . .

Okay, not really. Just add random words to Crazy Libs original or classic stories and get your own personalized version. Here’s one of mine…

The Fishing Incident

One minute I went fishing — fishing invariably makes me nervous. Most people like to fish in streams, but I, in my wit, like to fish in rivers. Standing quickly, I baited the hook with a handbag (and a couple of silky waffles for good measure), leaned back, and lavishly cast my fishing shoelace. I waited for a whole millennium, whispering to relieve the boredom, when finally a gurgle caught my attention. Sarcastically, I pulled and waddled on my fishing shoelace, straining until my last ounce of arrogance was gone, and reeled in my catch.

I was creeped out. There, lying before me like a sneaky frying pan on a meerkat’s toenail, was a giant screwdriver. As if that weren’t scary enough, the screwdriver, to my utmost stamina, started to sigh.

Cheesily, I dropped my fishing shoelace and ran back to my castle, without looking back. I don’t know when I’ve been so ecstatic.

How about adding one of yours?

~ thumbnail pic created by Amy the Ant ~

wordsmith

27 Friday Apr 2007

Posted by azahar in books & writing, language, miscellany

≈ 9 Comments

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Have you ever heard of Wordsmith?

Wordsmith.org is a worldwide online community of some half-million readers who share a love for words, wordplay, language, and literature. They hail from Australia to Zimbabwe and almost all other places in between.

One of my favourite services that they offer is A.Word.A.Day, which sends you a new word every day by email, along with background information and also a daily quotation. Usually the words for the week are chosen around a theme. This week’s theme was rather cool: words having vowels aeiou once and only once, and in order. Which include the following:

  • abstemious
  • caesious
  • anemious
  • facetious
  • annelidous

Can you think of any others?

secret? what secret?

26 Thursday Apr 2007

Posted by azahar in books & writing, health & happiness, media, rants, video, weird

≈ 6 Comments

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Decoding ‘The Secret’

Oprah lives by it. Millions are reading it. The latest self-help sensation claims we can change our lives by thinking. But this ‘new thought’ may just be new marketing.

Reading some of the excerpts in the Newsweek article, you’d almost think it was a spoof book if not for the millions of copies sold and the public support of celebs like Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres and Nicole Kidman. Are people really so desperately needy and pathetically gullible? The mind reels …

You’d think the last thing Americans need is more excuses for self-absorption and acquisitiveness. But our inexhaustible appetite for “affirmation” and “inspiration” and “motivation” has finally outstripped the combined efforts of Wayne Dyer, Anthony Robbins, Dr. Phil and Mitch Albom. We have actually begun importing self-help—and from Australia, of all places, that citadel of tough-minded individualism…

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