(1) Research for my current writing project (I am excited beyond measure to be working on this):

I have a major girl-crush on Louise Brooks.
(2) The song that gave me chills at a concert that I attended with the hubs on Friday (the band is Opeth—Swedish metal—and the lead singer, Mikael Akerfeldt, may or may not have been a teeny bit of an inspiration for Lon at one point or another . . . along with a couple of other people):
(3) What I read this weekend (and probably my favorite read of 2011 thus far; however, I would hesitate to recommend this to readers who might find it hard to be patient with a great deal of description and very little action):

Beautiful, literary slow-burn . . .

