I was originally exposed to Deirdre Flint on Cast-On: The Knitting Podcast by Brenda Daynes. Brenda has a great taste in music and she plays music from the Pod-Safe Music Network during Cast-on. Here is my favourite Deirdre Flint Song: THE BOOB FAIRY! (listen to a clip -legal!)

When I was in my teenage years, I did just what I should
I listened to my mother and I was kind and sweet and good
And my friends and I did rituals and I prayed with all my might
That this would be the evening that she’d stop along her flight
Well, that was several years ago and that chick’s long overdue
And it’s time I came to terms with something plainly clear to you.

The boob fairy never came for me
No, the boob fairy never came for me
Okay, I’m spunky and I’m cute and I’ve got a great personality
But the boob fairy never came for me

Well, we were the third house on a country drive, I thought
Maybe she just got lost, so I hung my bra on the mailbox
Til the neighbors took it off
And all my friends got visits and expanded through the years
And left me wailing to the gods buying training bras at Sears
Still I harbor hopes, she’ll come for me, I know she will
I’d get ‘em done myself if she’d agree to fit the bill

The boob fairy never came for me
No the boob fairy never came for me
Look, I wasn’t wanting melons, just a cute curvaceous B
But the boob fairy never came for me.

This isn’t a song about boobs. Not really.
The boobs are just a set of metaphors to symbolize everyone’s fear of human inadequacy.
Hey! We’ve all felt the pain of being dissed by one fairy or another,
so during the next refrain I want you to join in with your own fairy that never paid a call.
Maybe it’s the height fairy or the butt nymph.
Men, maybe it’s the pectoral or hair fairy or maybe some other fairy you just want to mumble about.
Look, nobody’s going to ask you to enunciate.
And sisters, I don’t want you feeling alienated because you happen to be full-figured.
Just change the line to “the boob fairy wouldn’t let me be”
or “the boob fairy became obsessed with me”.
Okay, here comes the refrain. Everybody join in.

The boob fairy never came for me
No the boob fairy never came for me
Though the hip fairy came two times
and the thigh fairy came three
The boob fairy never came for me.

All this week I’ve been absorbed head to toe in books!

I even joined LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers! I’ve been meaning to finish my LibraryThing profile for months… but got distracted by Shelfari, lost interest in that, got distracted by my new job, and have just been busy. Well, now I have time! (Well I don’t really… but I’ll remember it now!)

The Literary Feline is having a HUGE giveaway to celebrate her blogiversary! I won a book giveaway she had and I’m really excited about it.. but I keep seeing this Hachette Group 14-book-box giveaway for FIVE lucky winners! I’m sooo desperate to win! I’ve seen this contest so many times, and the books look absolutely enticing! (I hate having to tell people because I want to win so badly… and every person I tell lessens my chances, but by blogging about it, I get extra entries!)

I’ve recently also updated my blogroll with a lot of the blogs I’ve found over the past couple weeks. One of the ones I should mention is Books ‘N Border Collies. I’m really enjoying reading Lezlie’s blog and I actually won a book through her Georgette Heyer Giveaway! I requested False Colours (I couldn’t decide at the time I entered, so when I won, I had a hard decision to make.)