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Calvin and Hobbes for Friday, November 06, 2009

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/stossel.asp

Was ABC News' 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel fired for trying to air a piece critical of health care reform?

Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie and Bing Crosby
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes - Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
All Tomorrow's Parties - Nico and the Velvet Underground
Tramp - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas
Portland, Oregon - Lorette Lynn and Jack White

Here I am, deciding to get out for lunch. The office is too boring! And since the boss is out, i think that's reason enough to go out for lunch! I need to have a life instead of always being cooped up in that office!

The setting here's not bad and it's quite nice. The set's a bit pricey, but hey, i have lunch in the canteen almost every day... I think i should enjoy a bit when i have the chance to.

Tonight's opera: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

Hi! I've lurked around a little bit, and I'm hoping since you all are so good at suggesting books that you'll be able to identify one! I had it recommended to me once or twice, but was foolish enough to assume that I would remember the author and the title. Of course, I can remember neither. I'm going to the local library this weekend for my monthly stack ,and I'm fairly sure (having checked the online catalogue when it was first recommended to me) that the book does exist at that branch. All I can supply is the cover art, and I'm not totally sure that this is the entire cover.




I know it's a pain having to identify a book without any information other than the cover art, but thank you so much for any help you can give me!

Someone at work liked my idea of a stupid stick.  They bought one and put it in the staff room for general use.

Sadly, it's made of foam.

It would still amuse me greatly to chase the stupid with it though!  :D

In this book there was a fellow with dyslexia who was tormented by his teachers. His father was cool and thought he should be raised like a girl at first, but then raised like a man later. He tamed horses with patience and compassion instead of breaking them.
The fellow saw all sorts of interesting hallucinations and stuff, and had premontions.

Also, I am looking for a book that takes place in South Africa. The main character was left handed and opinionated and female. She had a grandmother who kept all the stuff she... menstruated on and these birds took them away after she died. The woman's sister shot her children and bigoted husband

I also need to find a book that is told from the perspective of a fetus who has an abusive father.

My name's Elizabeth, I'm an English lit major and this is my first post, although I have been watching for a little while now so hopefully I don't mess this up too badly.

So in light of the vampire craze of recent years, and the absolutely crazy one about to come with the release of New Moon, I thought that I would share one of my favourite, non-classic, vampire books. I like my vampires to burn in the sun, not sparkle thank you (although if that's your thing that's awesome too). I didn't see this particular book in the last 100 posts tagged for the author so hopefully it's all good.  


Vamped by David Sosnowski

So this vampire walks into a bar... Yes, it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but it’s just another night in the never-ending life of Marty Kowalski. With his trademark slogan - “There’s a sucker born every minute” – this blood-drinking bachelor has managed to talk half of the mortal world into joining the graveyard shift. Now the vampires outnumber the humans, and Marty is so bored he could die – again.

I read this book for the first time when I was in high school and I’ve re-read it more than a few times since then, it’s probably my favourite vampire book of any sort, and I have read a fair amount. What helps to make this book different is that vampires are the norm of society and it is the humans who are not, unfortunately they (somewhat predictably) are farmed for their blood but the vampires also produce a plasma that they drink to supplement their diet as the human population on the farms dwindles.

At the beginning of the book you're faced with Marty trying to commit suicide because he’s literally bored to death with his life, but he stumbles across a small girl named Isuzu whose mother was just killed by other vampires. He ends up faking the mother’s escape and taking Isuzu back to his apartment, originally to eat, but raises her as his daughter. While it all seems somewhat clichéd, what helps this book is the humour that's infused throughout. It’s witty and even heart warming in places, like when he takes Isuzu on a vacation to the North Pole.

Marty is sharp tongued and sarcastic, and regales you with stories from his past and his views of his neighbours as they dress up at Halloween and as he tries to raise a daughter in a world that’s so dangerous for her, her life is lived almost completely within the walls of Marty’s apartment. It doesn't focus just on that relationship either as you see Marty's life outside of the apartment and go with Isuzu on an excursion to a vampire strip joint towards the end of the book. 

It will charm you within the first few pages and keep you turning to see what happens next.

Dear period,

COME. RIGHT NOW. ...Please?!

Worried,
A.


Dear possible child,

If you are indeed in there, GTFO. I do not want you. That is all.

No love whatsoever,
A.


Dear bedroom,

Clean yourself. I'm too lazy.

A little love,
A.

Back in the mid-80s, the Boston Museum of Science had an Omni/IMAX theater that played this introduction to every movie in order to show off its sound system. The woman narrator is incredibly perky and annoying.

BUT! There is LEONARD NIMOY!!! Which is why I'm sharing. This isn't my video, I just found it when I was googling for the audio of this.

First, Leonard Nimoy at 1:00

Secondly (AND MOST AWESOMELY!!!) Who Put the Bomp? at 1:17

And finally, just a tiny bit at 3:13

Untitled from Recumbent Goat on Vimeo.

I posted this table on my journal earlier today and thought that people on the comm might appreciate a listing of all the many, many things that David Tennant is doing for the next two months. My head was starting to hurt trying to keep track of all this. *g* I'll be keeping the copy on my lj updated if there are any more shows announced and I'm going to add the air times when we know them.

Show	Date
The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show	Nov. 6 - not confirmed
Masterpiece Contemporary intros.	Nov 8, 15, 22
Graham Norton	Nov. 9
The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show	Nov. 11-13
Jo Whiley's Radio 1 Road Trip	Nov. 15
Doctor Who - Waters of Mars	Nov. 15
Children in Need - EoT Trailer	Nov. 20
Doctor Who - Dreamland	Nov. 21-27
Never Mind the Buzzcocks	Dec. 16
Qi	Dec. 24
Doctor Who - The End of Time Part 1	Dec. 25
Hamlet	around Dec. 25
Alan Carr's Chatty Man	Dec. 29
Doctor Who - The End of Time Part 2	around Jan 1

moar funny pictures

Dear douchebags downstairs,

You're lucky I didn't come and chase you out of our block in my full sleep deprived rage. Its 3 FUCKING AM. I planned to be up at 8 to go to London and make the most of the bloody daylight to do my project. Thanks to you douchebags being noisy cunts, I think that might have to wait until Saturday now, whilst I work myself into a calmer, exhausted state so I can get back to sleep, hmm?

Thoroughly pissed off, and very, very awake now,
The angry, tired art student upstairs

My husband found this. There's a new translation of the Charles Perrault fairy tales.

A formal affair, you know – black ties and dirty goose on the rocks.
Stirred not shaken, beckons the lady in pearls
Executive in Burberry black checks the rolex, smiling -
“The deal is made, better call a cab, time to get laid”