Move Recs, etc.
Dec. 18th, 2007 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
botiasI would like to recommend: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby If you are the sort that can put your brain and your notions of taste to bed for the evening (I sent mine off to boarding school personally; it's worked out well all around) it's worth it just to see Michael Clarke Duncan (that very big scary guy from Shadow Puppets) read Judy Blume out loud to a coma patient in *concerned face*.
It is rainy and soggy here. :P So I have been reading big, brightly colored flower catalogs, drawing up garden plans, cracking books on butterfly gardening written by earnest biologists and books on herb gardening written by giddy (well, giddy for Brits) garden authorities. My fav bit:
I also reread Michael Pollan's Second Nature which is about both gardening and human attitudes toward nature. I highly recommend it along with all of his books. He does things I have done, asks questions I've wanted to know the answers to, and then addresses them in a wonderfully articulate and thoughtful way. His occasional flights of fancy are deeply touching sometimes and other times just flighty, but always feel sincere. His observations of the attitudes people bring to their gardening is spot on. Gardeners are as political, class-conscious, and prone to trends as any painter.
ETA: the exploding garden book is Making an Herb Garden by Catherine Mason It's one of my fav garden porn books
My other fav is Herb Garden Design by Ethne Clark
It is rainy and soggy here. :P So I have been reading big, brightly colored flower catalogs, drawing up garden plans, cracking books on butterfly gardening written by earnest biologists and books on herb gardening written by giddy (well, giddy for Brits) garden authorities. My fav bit:
"Plants are squeezed into every corner--not a patch of bare earth is visible, and there is a sense that at any moment the whole thing might run out of control, which makes this planting very exciting [!!]."It's going to explode!!! I love it! :D
I also reread Michael Pollan's Second Nature which is about both gardening and human attitudes toward nature. I highly recommend it along with all of his books. He does things I have done, asks questions I've wanted to know the answers to, and then addresses them in a wonderfully articulate and thoughtful way. His occasional flights of fancy are deeply touching sometimes and other times just flighty, but always feel sincere. His observations of the attitudes people bring to their gardening is spot on. Gardeners are as political, class-conscious, and prone to trends as any painter.
ETA: the exploding garden book is Making an Herb Garden by Catherine Mason It's one of my fav garden porn books
My other fav is Herb Garden Design by Ethne Clark
