Books I got for Christmas:

• How to Mow the Lawn by Sam Martin
• A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
• Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville by Stephen Jay Gould
• Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems by David Wagoner (hurray!)
• Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver

Music I got for Christmas:

• The Crane Wife from The Decemberists
• Sam’s Town from The Killers

New bands I recently found on the Web

• Band of Horses
• The Black Angels
• Los Campesinos!

I wrote one poem last week. No, you’ll never see one of my poems here (copyright issues).