Friday!!
Scrotum! 

So... The Philadelphia Flower Show opens this weekend.  What's the theme, you ask?  Legends of Ireland!  I'm sure there will be millions of reviews online, but we're going on Monday and I'll try to recap when we get back.

One of the odd perks of my job is access to giveaway books and CDs.  These are usually preview copies, but sometimes co-workers clear out stuff from their own shelves (I've done that too).  There are known locations for these giveaways.  Now, 90% of them are 'meh', but every now and then... Patty Larkin's CD Red=Luck was in the pile.  It's from 2003, so it's either from someone's collection or sent as background on her.  Either way, it's mine now.  A billion years ago, (17?) I went to see Four Bitchin' Babes perform and of them, Patty Larkin just blew me away.  I've always tried to get her stuff, but like Richard Thompson or Joan Armatrading, she exists on the margin of success, under promoted but totally awesome. 

Speaking of free stuff, I just finished Legacy by Kerrigan Valentine.  The opening line caught me and I enjoyed the first half quite a bit.  It's an overtly feminist (hey, me too!) dystopia fic about patriarchy gone mad.  Naturally we have a plucky hero who finds her way out of being forced to marry a thug and winds up discovering the other extreme before choosing her own way.  Right.  Well it's a good read and food for thought.  My copy is available to anyone interested, I think it's in bookstores soon.  It's appropriate for teens and up.  There is violence, but the word 'scrotum' is not used anywhere.

Peace