Thoughts of the Day

The roommate search continues. It was an, um, interesting weekend of meeting potential roommates. Okay, some of these emails K and I have been getting are just plain scary. A guy emailed K today professing to be a "Submissive" and expressing his hope that we would not only let him rent a room but make him our slave. Er. Yeah... That happened.

How hard is it to find a nice, normal person in LA? Apparently that hard.

Also apparently difficult, getting anything useful passed by the Senate. Can Lieberman just go away already? I mean seriously. Apparently reasonable access to health insurance is too much to ask of our government. Public option? Nope! Health insurance for people under 65? Nope! No big deal that people have lost/are losing their jobs and with them their benefits. No big deal. Who needs health insurance really?

I do like how my friend put it on Twitter: @DanMazinOMG If Joe Lieberman were a soup, he'd be Cream of F*cktard.

Bah. Sorry. Mini-rant. Moving on.

Nikon is running a video contest to share your day in 140 seconds or less. My friend entered and made an awesome little video about recovering from a foot injury. He really was a gimp for the last couple of months! Yay for returning to mobility.



It's the end of the year which means it's time for the annual slew of "Best of..." Lists. Slant magazine has their 25 Best Films of 2009. That one definitely makes me feel like a slacker. I've seen maybe two of those movies? Three? I have a lot of movie watching to catch up on.

io9 has their 20 Best Sci Fi books of the decade. I also have a lot of reading to do. My Amazon Wish List just got a lot longer. I haven't read a lot of those but there are a few by authors I like a lot (Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom), a couple I've been meaning to pick up for ages (Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, World War Z by Max Brooks), even worse ones I own but haven't read yet (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke), and best of all ones that I'm not familiar with (like The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia).

And as always I'm always happy to take recommendations for things I should read/watch/consume in some fashion. I like discover new little bits of wonderful. Share away!

Stays Crunchy In Milk + Farscape = Awesome

Okay, I can't let my only post of the day be so super debbie downer. So I will share this with you! Because it's fun and awesome and it should be shared. So I say.

As I've mentioned previously, there's this awesome book called Stays Crunchy In Milk. My friend Adam wrote it and my other friend Lauren edited it. I read it and loved it.

My mini review (which I should have posted here but I've been lazy and have so far only put it up on Goodreads):

Clever and charming, Stays Crunchy In Milk is an adventure story that starts off appealing to the kid in you and ends up revealing itself as a well rounded delight. On the surface there are the entertaining pop culture references that wrap you in a warm blanket of childhood nostalgia. At its depths, Stays Crunchy takes its three heroes (who should remind you of several popular cereals that make an appearance around a certain holiday involving dress-up and candy) on a journey that is as much exis...more Clever and charming, Stays Crunchy In Milk is an adventure story that starts off appealing to the kid in you and ends up revealing itself as a well rounded delight. On the surface there are the entertaining pop culture references that wrap you in a warm blanket of childhood nostalgia. At its depths, Stays Crunchy takes its three heroes (who should remind you of several popular cereals that make an appearance around a certain holiday involving dress-up and candy) on a journey that is as much existential as it is physical. It becomes more than a game of catch that cartoon reference, it's a story about friendship, perception of self, and the subjective nature of reality. Stays Crunchy is a fun and tasty tale that a reader can enjoy on many levels. 

 So what's this contest about? Basically all you have to do is buy a copy of the book, take a picture of yourself somewhere with it, and then post your picture over in the comment section of Adam's blog. For all of the contest details, go check him out! Contest runs through December 18th so you've even got a little time.

Oh yeah, and the prize is a set of Farscape DVDs. How rad is that?



Now my job here is done. I'm going to watch Glee.