Politics and books
- Going to vote in the primary tomorrow after a week of trying and failing to find time to advance vote. Ron Paul needs all the help I can give him, especially given that his buzz has waned quite a bit on the internet. It seems like Ron Paul Fever is giving way to the ever growing Obamania. Obamassacre? Obamanslaughter? I guess I’m just not as good at coining neo-bama-logisms as Ken Jennings. Segue alert!
- Going to meet Ken Jennings (again) at the Margaret Mitchell House tomorrow evening to hear him discuss–and see him sign–his latest.
- Finished The Birthday Party last week. I finally read this on a year-old recommendation on boingboing.net. This is a very good story, recounted chillingly, if a bit amateurishly, by the federal prosecutor who was kidnapped in 1998. A stellar example of an unputdownable book, this one had me up until 2am finishing it the same day I got it from the library.
- Also read Then We Came to the End, completely on the recommendation of Tony Simon’s metaphorical pizza of literature. This is not the kind of novel I usually read. The summary wouldn’t have piqued my interest in the least: “A group of copywriters and designers at a Chicago ad agency face layoffs at the end of the ’90s boom.” But this is something substantial. It’s about office life, something which which I am intimately familiar, and about cancer, with which I am not. The book will resonate clearly, as it did with me, with anyone who works in an office.
- Currently checked out: Altered Carbon and The World Without Us. Not sure which I will finish first.
Tags: Books, Friends, Funny
February 4th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Thanks for the link Brother Garrett. And now that you’ve fixed the never ending RSS ping I’ve got you back in the bloglines
February 4th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Man, I only heard about the RSS ping once, from Rusty, and I think it was a Bloglines issue because I never saw it myself on Google Reader. And like any good narcissist, of course I subscribe to my own feed.