Update: Speed Style

Okay, I got ten minutes before I got to get ready for work, so here it comes:


Books read: Deliverance & Positively Fifth Street. Both good in their own ways. Let it be said taht 5th street is quite possibly the best shitter book of all time. I mean, it's engaging just enough and real easy to put down with McManus starts rambling about all kinds family and things that have very, very little to do with his book. As for Deliverance...well. Yup, the rape of Ned Beatty is in there and the book does not have the line "Squeal like a pig, boy." The rape scene in the book I think is much more creepy because it's so perfunctory. I mean it was almost like the natural thing to do for those hillbillies to rape the first canoers they saw. Let it also be said that James Dickey, author of Deliverance, was the poet laureate of the US in the 70s, so it's not like he's some slouch. I think I'm going to try to use Deliverance in my comps so I can, if for anything else, use the term buttsex academically.

Books on the docket: New shitter book is Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut. Ole Kurt seems to be adhering to the 5 to 7 sentences and your paragraph's done mentality of writing, so it'll stay brisk and fun for those private moments. I'm nearly done with Rock Springs, a book I started like a year ago and never finished...I got one story to go. Here's to hoping it's good. And I think a better title for that book would be Sad Sacks from Montana and the Bars they Frequent...yeah, it's not snappy, but every story has that. Don't get me wrong, I think I get the book about the plight and hopelessness of the common hardluck man...but the book is like reading a literary version of Row Row Your Boat or that Lambchop song that never ends. How many times can you hit the same notes without breaking your instrument, you know?

Job update: Dumbest thing I've heard so far...I helped a lady who booked a trip for LA to SanFran...problem is that she lives in Houston. Oh how i love it.

Other stuff: Parents visited and that was good times. We all went to the Minnesota Zoo, and was ripped off. Nuts to that zoo. $12 bucks to get in and all they have there are moose and border collies (i'm serious about the border collie)...they also have cows chained down. Fucked up stuff there...oh, and my new schedule has me working Saturday to Wednesday 6 am to 230 pm. Guh. As for my progress in writing....you just read it.

Time is up!

VIVA EL MUSTACHE!!!!!