Okay, here's the bad photoetry.....
Now, here are some other things I've been wondering. Please give me answers if you know.
1. Is it more effective to punch someone with a jab in the nose, or is it better to really go for a full extension swinging hook right to their temple? You get more arm speed (due to the rotation) with the swinging hook, but the nose is so much more sensitive!
2. Guess what has two thumbs and isn't voting on November 7th? THIS GUY! *points to self with thumbs*
3. How come, when a bird flies into a closed sliding glass door, it's kind of funny, but when a person does it, well, I guess that's pretty funny too. Never mind.
Now, here are some books that I've read in the last month. Do you want to know what I think about them? Of course you do.
- Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott
A good, if typical memoir (hard childhood, divorced parents, drugs, alcohol, kid, redemption) that is a little heavy on the similes/analogies. Yes, when used sparsely and cleverly they can be incredibly effective tools. When used in nearly every sentence, the can be incredibly annoying affectations. Still, I would recommend it.
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
Apparently aimed at the "young adult" audience, this book is about a 9-year-old son of a Nazi Commandant at Auschwitz (Out-with in the book). It's supposed to be a fable of sorts but it's kind of boring. The end "twist" is telegraphed from about a million miles away (that's about 40 times around the earth at the equator or about 58.5 times around the earth at the latitude of Sapporo Japan) and the lesson, or moral of the story if you want to follow the "fable" tradition is basically "the Holocaust was bad." Duh. But even though you know what's coming, it's still a good book to read on a plane or something since it's pretty short.
- War of the Worlds (NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TOM CRUISE!) - H.G. Wells
Uh, there's nothing to say about this except "why haven't I read this before?"
- Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Romantic isn't the right word, but it's the first one that comes to mind. This book is like a police baton fight between nihilism, craziness, domestic terrorism, Jesus, NOT-Jesus, and sweetness in a used sex toy shop catering to alcoholic sex addicts. Some of it might be set in 1734, some might be set in 2556 and some might be set yesterday or the day before. There might be miracles, there might be heroes, there might be love, there might be something in it to save you. But probably not. Maybe the best of the Palahniuk books I've read.
