A whole new level of bleach? What does that even mean?
I have nothing really to say, and I recently decided that I can draw on my long and fascinating personal history to entertain you, instead of leaving the last post up for days and days and days.
So: When I was probably about 10 or 11, my family went to Washington D.C. (There's supposed to be a comma there, in between the Washington and the D.C., but I don't like it. So it's out.) While in D.C., we visited the Jefferson Memorial. My Dad had a nickel to flip and we had some sort of disagreement, so we flipped it and it totally landed on its edge. Came to a complete standstill balanced on its side, neither heads or tails. Right in front of the Huge Freaking Statue of Jefferson. It blew our little minds.
Maybe the ghost of Thomas Jefferson was teaching us about the unknowability of Truth.
I guess I do have stuff to say - the coin-flipping thing reminded me. I just finished reading White Teeth. And I highly recommend it. Other got it for me for my birthday, but after the whole Glamorama tragedy (the tragedy being that I read the whole thing and that it's not actually possible to scrub your consciousness with bleach, whole new level or no) I wasn't ready to read novels again for a while.
The opening page talked about an idea I'd had -- namely, the place that only exists so that people can get to other places. The no-place. So I was hooked immediately, and didn't mind when the bus took 50 minutes to go less than 2 miles (due to the willy-nilly closing of roads around here) because I could read, read, read.
My only complaint about the book is the ending. I don't need a big happy Hollywood ending, and I especially don't need a lecture about how I probably want a Hollywood ending, but some kind of something remotely resembling and ending would be nice. There were all kinds of interesting questions about the characters to be answered and instead the pages stopped coming. Gah.
I am looking for books and blogs to read. Drop me a line if you have suggestions.
So: When I was probably about 10 or 11, my family went to Washington D.C. (There's supposed to be a comma there, in between the Washington and the D.C., but I don't like it. So it's out.) While in D.C., we visited the Jefferson Memorial. My Dad had a nickel to flip and we had some sort of disagreement, so we flipped it and it totally landed on its edge. Came to a complete standstill balanced on its side, neither heads or tails. Right in front of the Huge Freaking Statue of Jefferson. It blew our little minds.
Maybe the ghost of Thomas Jefferson was teaching us about the unknowability of Truth.
I guess I do have stuff to say - the coin-flipping thing reminded me. I just finished reading White Teeth. And I highly recommend it. Other got it for me for my birthday, but after the whole Glamorama tragedy (the tragedy being that I read the whole thing and that it's not actually possible to scrub your consciousness with bleach, whole new level or no) I wasn't ready to read novels again for a while.
The opening page talked about an idea I'd had -- namely, the place that only exists so that people can get to other places. The no-place. So I was hooked immediately, and didn't mind when the bus took 50 minutes to go less than 2 miles (due to the willy-nilly closing of roads around here) because I could read, read, read.
My only complaint about the book is the ending. I don't need a big happy Hollywood ending, and I especially don't need a lecture about how I probably want a Hollywood ending, but some kind of something remotely resembling and ending would be nice. There were all kinds of interesting questions about the characters to be answered and instead the pages stopped coming. Gah.
I am looking for books and blogs to read. Drop me a line if you have suggestions.
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