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Much to my gleeful surprise, I've learned that my Mother F*cking Chicken Dance video made Google's top 100 videos. How could this ridiculous bit of fluff beat out such heavy competition as porn and hostage beheadings? The key words people appended to my video make me gigglesnort, too.
I've been doing a bit more reading lately than I was a couple of months ago, recently finishing Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses, Larry Niven's Legacy of Heorot, and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -and- But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes.
Les Liaisons dangereuses remains one of my favourite books. Every time I read it, I get something completely different out of it. This time around, Monsieur de Valmont is far less sympathetic a character than the last time I read it, and Madame de Merteuil far more (although she remains a power-tripping psycho-bitch).
Legacy of Heorot has a very engaging story, and the villain is both interesting and well-thought-out, but the writing is spotty. This book contains some of the most heavy-handed foreshadowing I've ever seen.
And as for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, well, I fully understand the attraction to the former, and can see why Winston Churchill read it so voraciously during WWII. It's a book filled with sardonic joy and a certain world-weary innocence. The latter is just plain funny.
My current book is Tom Robbins' Another Roadside Attraction. I'm sad to say that the writing style is irking me, and that a book which came to me so highly recommended, is an right and utter slogfest. Here's hoping I can stop being annoyed with it and just enjoy the story.
And now for a few links:
World of Wearable Art: Bizarre and fabulous fashion contest winners. The pictures are too small for me to get enough detail, but they're still interesting.
Man Plans to Feed Placenta to Goannas: Giving the 'gators a taste for baby.
A Place Under the Sun: Plans to build a deep-space launch pad on the moon are meeting with a bit of opposition from land owners.
First zero-gravity surgery set to be performed: I don't see any volunteers for zero-G root canals.
And now it's time to do some more unpacking. I fear it shall never end.
I've been doing a bit more reading lately than I was a couple of months ago, recently finishing Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses, Larry Niven's Legacy of Heorot, and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -and- But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes.
Les Liaisons dangereuses remains one of my favourite books. Every time I read it, I get something completely different out of it. This time around, Monsieur de Valmont is far less sympathetic a character than the last time I read it, and Madame de Merteuil far more (although she remains a power-tripping psycho-bitch).
Legacy of Heorot has a very engaging story, and the villain is both interesting and well-thought-out, but the writing is spotty. This book contains some of the most heavy-handed foreshadowing I've ever seen.
And as for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, well, I fully understand the attraction to the former, and can see why Winston Churchill read it so voraciously during WWII. It's a book filled with sardonic joy and a certain world-weary innocence. The latter is just plain funny.
My current book is Tom Robbins' Another Roadside Attraction. I'm sad to say that the writing style is irking me, and that a book which came to me so highly recommended, is an right and utter slogfest. Here's hoping I can stop being annoyed with it and just enjoy the story.
And now for a few links:
World of Wearable Art: Bizarre and fabulous fashion contest winners. The pictures are too small for me to get enough detail, but they're still interesting.
Man Plans to Feed Placenta to Goannas: Giving the 'gators a taste for baby.
A Place Under the Sun: Plans to build a deep-space launch pad on the moon are meeting with a bit of opposition from land owners.
First zero-gravity surgery set to be performed: I don't see any volunteers for zero-G root canals.
And now it's time to do some more unpacking. I fear it shall never end.
