Wind Blowing Fair

[shanmonster]

I'm reading Louis L'Amour's Fair Blows the Wind (a favourite of mine when I was a kid) and I feel a strong compulsion to rewrite it. I'm only two chapters in, but the pacing of the book is ridiculously fast. Too much stuff is happening in too few pages. It's insane! And it's all far too coincidental. For a desolate strip of undeveloped New World, there sure are a lot of Europeans kicking around.

Pole dancing went better for me tonight, thanks to my trusty knee pads. , however, gives it a big ol' thumbs down.

Time for more links.

English school condemned for limiting teachers to blond hair, blue eyes: Right.

A Whiff of What? "Cocoa's complex aroma includes essence of cabbage and undertones of armpit."

Tattoos! These are definitely NSFW. Pierced arm tattoo | Jesus Fucking Christ

Removal Of Loa Loa Nematode In The Anterior Segment: Gross-out video of the day.

Get Hella Clean! "I can't believe it's not Satan: Satan Butter Soap."

British Skynet satellite launched: It's just a matter of time until Arnie shows up.

It wasn't me, officer, it was the unicorn: Another gamer-gone-wrong story.

Men survive gruesome suicide attempt: I dunno. I think this is a pretty ballsy way to go. "Two Atlanta men survived an attempt to kill themselves Friday by cutting off their arms with a circular saw, according to Atlanta Police Major Lane Hagin."

Phone Trace: A really nifty way to see where the owner of a cell phone is at any given time. NSFW due to naughty banners and the like.

Christians Don't Use Circular Logic: Atheists use circular questions!

My Baby!: Another gross-out video for the day, courtesy of the Maury Povitch show.

Comments

[allthingsnoisy.livejournal.com]

I'm speechless over that last one....

[tdj.livejournal.com]

A related parasite is responsible for river blindness. According to an ex-girlfriend ex-parasitologist, there are villages in Africa where nearly everyone over thirty is blind because of parasites similar to Loa Loa. Children are responsible for leading the adults around.

[allthingsnoisy.livejournal.com]

That was on NPR yesterday. It wasn't a pleasant story to listen to.

[valkryor.livejournal.com]

That last one...oh my. I weep for the species.

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

I recently read my first Lous L'Amour book, The Haunted
Mesa (which happened to be his last), and it was just
awful. He was delving into sci-fi territory, which might
have been new for his target audience, but it was nothing
Andre Norton many other authors haven't done. The plot
was contrived, the whole book had a copy and paste feel,
and the characters were 2-dimensional. I think I'll stick
to Larry McMurtry!

[firelie.livejournal.com]

That's what happens when you don't beat fear into your children. rofl