Archive for October, 2006
October 31, 2006 | Books, Memes
I have to admit, I have been waiting for this one. I was finally tagged for the book meme by Nicky at A Skirmish of Wit.
1) One book that changed your life: Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand. I know a lot of people hated this novel, but I read it at exactly the right time in my life. It was liberating.
2) One book that you’d read more than once: Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I love all of his work, but this really stands out as his best. It is a classic for a reason.
3) One book you’d want on a deserted island: War and Peace – Tolstoy. I have wanted to read this novel for a long time, but the length is intimidating. I think if I were stranded with it I could read it.
4) One book that made you laugh: Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt. I know it is a serious and sad memoir, but it was hilarious.
5) One book that made you cry: We Were The Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates. Holy shit this book is depressing.
6) One book you wish you’d written: Harry Potter (just for the money) or Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk. I know it’s two, but it is for very different reasons. I think Fight Club is amazingly insightful and well written. It is the best book I’ve read in years and I think about it all of the time.
7) One book you wish had never been written: I really hated On the Road but I wouldn’t go so far as to say I wish it had never been written. Maybe What to Expect When You’re Expecting. That book just lists birth defects one or two at a time so you feel even more terrible during your entire pregnancy.
One book you’re currently reading: The Ha-Ha – David King
9) One book you’ve been meaning to read: I have a four page list running, but I’ll tell you Three Fallen Women
by Amy Guth. I was trying to score a free copy, but I eventually broke down and ordered it the other day. Now I’m just waiting for it to show up.
10) Tag people: I’m picking people who I know are big readers mostly because I want to find more good books to read, so Beth, Chris, Sassymonkey, Alison, Becky and Jack’s Raging Mommy.
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3:47 pm |
…and then I took a picture.
I’ll have more pumpkin/jack o lantern pictures up on flickr later, but while we’re on the subjects of things that nobody should ever have to say, the other night I was giving twins a bath and when I was trying to explain why they shouldn’t consume their bath water I said the following out loud – “You don’t really want to drink anything your butt has been in.”
It is true. I know I don’t want to drink anything my butt has been in.
Oh, and yesterday The Goon Squad decided that they liked each other a lot. Well, either that or they realized that when they hug I make a huge deal out of it and take pictures.
Which leads me to the third thing I said this week that I never thought would come out of my mouth.
“No! You guys are NOT hugging. You are going to bed.”
Yes, I went in to check on them when they were supposed to be sleeping and they were standing in the middle of their room. I heard Claudia say “Let’s play ring around the rosie.”
I said “No ring around the rosie. It’s time for bed.” That is when they pulled the “We can’t go to bed. We’re hugging.” and they gave each other a big hug and grinned up at me.
Nice try Squad. It was a good effort, but I’m on to you two.
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4:37 pm |
I am still trying to calculate the scores from Friday Flicks. Who knew it would be so complicated? I am also working on a meme about books. In the meantime I wanted to share some more of the messed up things people are searching for.
For example, why was someone searching for cinnamon buttcrack? How did they end up here? For that matter can anyone explain the rest of these?
Thanksgiving Flashdance
Love jokes to tell on Halloween
carnivore toys
dad fart
happy butthole
doodlebops drug bust
what is Helloween?
knock knock jokes and “poop”
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Okay, I’m off to watch the Halloween episode of “The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” for the third time today. It is one of the few ways I can stop The Goon Squad from trying to hug their jack-o-lanterns that we (and by we I mean Gabe) carved yesterday.
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10:35 am |
Now I’ve seen everything. (thanks Frank Sucks)
I stand corrected. (Frank again)
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2:57 pm |
Every Friday Kelli has a game on her site called Friday Flicks. She puts up ten movie quotes and you guess what movie they are from, who said them and the theme of the quotes. I try to play every week.
Rules of the Game!
- I will post the week’s game every Friday morning. You will have the rest of Friday to guess. Sometime Saturday I will post answers and tally points.
- You get one comments worth of guesses, so make it good. You can guess at one or all of the quotes. Just don’t keep coming back and adding more comments.
- In order to get the points, you need to name the movie and the speaker. It can be the actor’s name or the character’s name.
- Only the first correct answer gets points. But go ahead and throw it out there if you think you know. Sometimes the other guy is wrong.
You could still win.
- Please be honest in your guesses. Don’t go google it. Anybody could do that. Do you really want to be that guy?
- As for group guesses… no fun if you get the whole team together and knock out every single answer. Just get your friends to play too. I’ll give you an extra point if your friends come and guess and say you sent them.
For the past two months the game has been travelling. This Friday it is my week. Please don’t cheat, make me look good over here. Also go tell Kelli hi and that I sent you because then I get extra points.
See what you can do with these (and try to comment before Gabe because he has probably seen all of these movies a billion times)
1) That guy is tense. Tension is a killer. I used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Diskin, big fat guy, I mean, like, orca fat.That guy is tense. Tension is a killer. I used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Diskin, big fat guy, I mean, like, orca fat.
2) We grow copious amounts of ganja here, and you’re carrying a wasted girl and a bag of fertilizer. You don’t look like your average horti-fucking-culturalist.
3) See, when a nuclear weapon detonates it unleashes an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down any power source within its blast radius. Now that tends not to matter in most cases because a nuclear weapon usually destroys everything you might need power for anyway. A pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse, but without the fuss of mass destruction and death. So instead of Hiroshima, you’d be getting the seventeenth century.
4) Is this the superintendent?… Yes, sir, I would like you to know that you have a whore living in 2R. Rossi, Janice Rossi… He’s MY husband. Get your own goddamn man.
5) Let me tell you what “Like a Virgin” is about. It’s all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The entire song. It’s a metaphor for big dicks.
6) It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.
7) Say Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn’t afford personalized plates so he went and changed his name to J3L2404?
They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they’ve all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? “I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How’ve you been?”
9) They say the fucking smog is the fucking reason you have such beautiful fucking sunsets.
10) Now, dicks have drive and clarity of vision, but they are not clever. They smell pussy and they want a piece of the action. And you thought you smelled some good old pussy, and have brought your two small mincey faggot balls along for a good old time. But you’ve got your parties mangled up. There’s no pussy here, just a dose that’ll make you wish you were born a woman. Like a prick, you are having second thoughts. You are shrinking, and your two little balls are shrinking with you. And the fact that you’ve got “Replica” written down the side of your gun and the fact that I’ve got “Desert Eagle point five O”
written down the side of mine should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now… Fuck off!
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Good luck everyone!
PS – Devra and Aviva are giving away free stuff. Go check them out.
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12:02 am |
