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Quote of the Moment
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
--Oscar Wilde

Read! It's Banned Book Week!


I'm either a nerd or a bibliophile...maybe both...

Headlines

"I had 4 pounds of chocolate from a ski trip. He ate it all -- it's war,"

"I just felt, wow, this huge noise and bump"

Pitcher Of Margaritas Mistaken For Limeade

Presidential Debate Bingo

Woman finds live frog in bag of salad. Washes frog, puts him back in bag

Musgrave's Old Campaign Web Site Now Shows Porn

Man tries to fly with meth lab

Psychic claims ghost of Walt Disney creates new character: Buddah Mouse

He admitted he attacked the trees because he didn't like their droppings.

Hm, interesting

photosexual, this made me think of you...


What Is Your Animal Personality?
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...though the grammar nazi in me is very disappointed with the proofreader of the quiz...

Something Rotten Special Features

Jasper Fforde's latest book, Something Rotten, comes with Special Features. *happy dance* To get to them is easy: pay attention while you're reading the book, then go to his website. The website, by the way, is just as trippy and odd as his books are. (Yes, I use the word "trippy" often when describing books that I've completed. It's accurate. No, really. Listen, just read the damn stories that I recommend and you'll understand.)

Nifty Quote from the Something Rotten 'Making of' wordamentary
"If I built houses the way I write books, I'd start on the door to the attic, then wire the basement, then build the chimney." -- Jasper Fforde

I haven't had a chance to finish the wordamentary or read the Deleted Scenes yet, but I'm sure that I'll have more to giggle about when I'm done.

Seriously, y'all should read this man's books. I mean, when the first book in the series, The Eyre Affair, can be described in the below review, what's not to love?

In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde's ingenious fantasy-enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel--unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.

I think that being well-read helps to find the amusement value in the books. I used to think that I'd read a lot, but after reading Fforde, I know that I am but a novice in the realm of bibliophilia.

Ok, time to go bash a little blue ball around a large white room. Hopefully, my joints won't contact the walls too hard this week.