Corona | Coming Attractions

Dammit.

I do.

Sweet.

On further inspection, Dalty's "Reading Icon" post may have been the culprit. When I switch to the plain text editor and try to quote that post, it shows me a "null" in the quote brackets.

Don't take this away from me, Goiter.  If Dalty wants the credit for sabotaging a thread, then he can buy it.  I earned this one the American way, by screwing it up!

My apologies, Dr. Ake, M.D.  It was all your fault.

It's like I'm inside the Matrix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shit.  I forgot to italicize the image.

That'll learn ya, ya son of a gun!

I am unfamiliar with the vernacular, but how can somebody be parented by a firearm?

Jack has decided that today is the day to finally buy Vern's book 'Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal'.  I like that on the Amazon page, the one-sentence blurb by New York Magazine starts out "We can't believe this actually exists-."  I also like this line from the product description:

Amazon wrote:

As Vern himself puts it, Seagalogy is “a book that will shake the very foundations of film criticism, break their wrists and then throw them through a window."

I also thought I'd pick up some Batman comics that I had read about in recent stories about the upcoming movie.  'Batman: Prey' is apparently not in print.  The first marketplace copy I saw listed at Amazon went for $799; that's slightly more than I am willing to pay.  Then I saw that there appear to be some other copies with sellers, the cheapest being about $80.  I guess I'll pass on that one for now.  Maybe I'll look and see if there's a downloadable version on the webs.

I am not reading another book by Frederick Forsyth because I don't have time.  It is, however, sitting on my bedside table, gathering dust and taunting me each morning when I awake, groggily at 5:30 and stumble off back to work.  Which sucks.

I have a train ride to Chicago tomorrow, I think on the way I will read "The Stupidest Angel: A heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror."

I'm reading 'Generation Kill' right now. I wasn't going to read it, cause I'd already seen the miniseries, but then I went and read Nathan Fick's book (Fick is a marine who appears in the miniseries and book) 'One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer'. I thought it was really good, and wanted to read some more soldier/war books, and reading some other people's opinions on GK swayed me to borrowing it. It's pretty good, and I've really enjoyed some passages and thought about posting them, but I just came across one that made me laugh:

Generation Kill wrote:

Corpses of the Iraqi attackers who fell in the road have been run over repeatedly by tracked vehicles. They are flattened, with their entrails squished out. Marines in First Recon nickname one corpse Tomato Man, because from a distance he looks like a smashed crate of tomatoes in the road. There are shot-up cars and trucks with bodies hanging over the edges. We pass a bus, smashed and burned, with charred human remains sitting upright in some windows. There's a man in the road with no head and a dead little girl, too, about three or four, lying on her back. She's wearing a dress and has no legs. Twenty-one-year-old Lance Corporal Jeffrey Carazales from Cuero, Texas, has a profound realization as he cruises through the destruction at the wheel of a Humvee in Bravo's Third Platoon. "Everything is overrated except death. All that shit goes out the window -- college, nice cars, pussy. I just don't want to end up looking like that dude who looks like a box of smashed tomatoes."

Naturally, I don't mean the part about the dead little girl when I say it was funny, though I think the more gruesome/somber details make the humor pop a little more.

I just finished reading Ender's Game for the first time, pretty good. It's pretty cool that it's recommended reading for the U.S. Marine Corps.

Also currently about 2/3 of the way through The Makioka Sisters, which is also good, but totally different from Ender's Game (though seeing the Japanese sisters in some of the Battle School games would definitely be a twist I wouldn't see coming).