Reading: looking, looking
Music: Toucan Pirates
TV/Movie: George Carlin's Bad for You
Link o' the Day: BBC World News America "Notes to Obama" series - John Waters

I really need to get to a bookstore soon. Oh, sure, I have plenty of read around here. This place is packed to the rafters with books. But I have a hankering for John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale and Tobias Buckell's Sly Mongoose. I need to get my eyes buried in some good old fashioned science fiction with a dash of adventure. I've been reading too much nonfiction lately. Too many charming essays.

And while I'm talking about being immersed in other worlds, yeah, we're still watching Lost and it's really starting to piss us off. Not shot-someone-in-the-face psised off. More like a hold-down-the-writers-and-beat-them-with-bricks pissed off. Not that we're going to stop watching. Oh, no not that. We'll likely be picking up the season 3 DVD this weekend and just keep going. But man...you get really jerked around story-wise, don't you, in this series. It's like David Lynch and Steve Spielberg had a monster-child and now it has its own hit TV series. (Which reminds me, note to self: check out The United States of Tara.) The stuff is invading our dreams. I'm starting to jot down the images I get in my sleep to see if they show up on the show. Now that would be truly freaky.

I dunno. We really like Lost but we keep finding ourselves, halfway through the episode, by the end of the episode, muttering to each other, "goddamn show..." Hidden symbols revealed? Smiley-face balloons? Random parachutes? Talking apes? (to keep things spoiler-fair, one of these hasn't appeared on the show....so far) When are we going to get the real story of John Locke? Now I know how those little fishies feel when I get them on my hook and reel them in.

Yeah. Lucky little fishies.

Can't wait to see how this all comes out. I bet the castaways end up floating next to a giant can of beer in an island-sized bucket of ice water. "Reeled in s'more, Rhonda! Get the grill on!"

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Yesterday was an off day. Felt like I was on the edge of another headcold. Maybe not. Still can't tell. If it's something, it's probably pretty minor. Took some preventative medicine, combination cold tabs and echinaccea and I'll be right as rain. Today I need to play a bit of catch-up, so another short entry.

Today's link o' the day goes to one of the segments to the BBC World News America "Notes to Obama" series, this one featuring John Waters. He's got a few interesting things to say. No real surprises considering the source, but well worth a viewing anyway. I think Obama should install Waters as the head of the National Endowment for the Arts.

That'll show 'em!

Cheers!