read•see•do
as an aside
social studies
Monday
Aug302010

A book I should have read as a teen in place of The Fountainhead

Ego porn that it was. I should have read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. The categorical opposite to Ayn Rand's crackpot dogma of objectivism. If you're reading this, you should read it too. And use that Penguin Classic edition of The Fountainhead to prop up an old, rump-sprung couch.
Tuesday
Aug242010

Is there a phobia...

...that's the fear of falling down the stairs as you're brushing you teeth with a electric toothbrush and having said toothbrush stab you in the throat as you fall? Because there should be.
Wednesday
Aug112010

Band names - If these aren't, they should be.

Ferretocracy
Pop Kill
Calumny Lads
Fifth Dentist
Diebrid
Love Letter to Avril Lavigne
schwa
Pallet Enterprise
Green means go.
Hop On Pop
Scholastic Hygiene Club
Oxinfree
Spam Dancer
Consider the Source
Hostile Makeover
Pop Kill
GrizzlyMILF
SoyMILF
The Captain & Schlemiel
Martin Mulldozer

 

Friday
Jul092010

Every time someone buys a Utilikilt, a fuzzy new kitten is born.

Daughter calls it my ManSkirt.  Spouse says I look great in it.  And I feel like a total badass when I wear my Utilikilt.  I joined the Utiliclan at Bonaroo this year with my purchase of an olive-green Original.  Within a week, I'd ordered another one (tan Mocker) and have already begun thinking through how I can justify the purchase of a Survivor.

Waffling about springing for a Utilikilt?  Nut up and pull the trigger.  It's summer and the time is perfect for the freedom, comfort and all-around badassity of a Utilikilt.  Hit www.utilikilts.com/store/webslog to make your purchase.  I'll get a commission on the sale and you'll become a part of a growing worldwide movement of people saying "nae" to pants and "aye" to the freedom and comfort of the Un-Bifurcated Man Garment.

Thursday
Jul082010

A Supposedly Tricksy Author I'll Read Next

So next in the queue is "Cloud Atlas" by David Miller. It apparently made a big noise for it's youngish author in the way that it bolts together 6 different story lines over 300 years. A lot of the things bring said about Miller sound like the praise David Foster Wallace garnered. I'll have to read it to find out.

But so help me God, if he turns out to be brilliant but also tortured and eliminates his own personal map DFW style, I'm giving up on fiction authors altogether and devoting the rest of my life to reading the entire Chicken Soup for the Soul series. In large print. With a book group.