Newest pet peeve: people who, when ordering food from a counter, begin their order with “Gimme” or “Lemme get.” I start my orders with the more tentative (and hopefully just rhetorical) “Could I have…?” The first two just strike me as rude.

Andy tagged me for a meme, so:

Five Simple Pleasures:

1. Lying awake in bed on a weekend morning.
2. Doing the Saturday New York Times crossword. (Not easy to complete, though.)
3. Eating good soup.
4. Sitting on the couch watching TV with my arm around Matt.
5. Listening to good music.

You’re it:
Matt
Mike
Nick
Patrick
Matt P.

The Fellowship of the Ring: The Complete Recordings, three CDs plus audio DVD, was officially released today. Here’s an extensive review, with pictures as well as screen shots from the audio DVD.

Amazon.com has reduced its price to $47.99 (lower than it was listed last week), but CD Universe has it for $41.99. Nevertheless, I’ve ordered it from Amazon because I get free two-day shipping. I look forward to listening to this.