Conversations With....Blake

ErinPatricia 9:42 pm
    http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks

 Blake Petit 9:42 pm
    Ooooooooooooooooooooh.

 Blake Petit 9:49 pm
    Lots of Phillip K. Dick here.

 Blake Petit 9:56 pm
    Goddamn Finnega's Wake.
    Have you ever tried to read Finnegan's Wake?

 ErinPatricia 10:00 pm
    no

 Blake Petit 10:00 pm
    Don't.

 ErinPatricia 10:01 pm
    why

 Blake Petit 10:01 pm
    The only reason to try to read Finnegan's Wake is if you hate yourself so much that suicide is too easy an out.

 ErinPatricia 10:01 pm
    lol
    can i quote you

 Blake Petit 10:01 pm
Yes.    

It follows absolutely no rules of plot, character, sentence structure, or comprehension. It is an absolute MESS.
  

 ErinPatricia 10:01 pm
    why is it a classic then

 Blake Petit 10:02 pm
    So that pretentious people can pretend they understand it and act like they're smarter than everybody else.
    Joyce was brilliant, but he decided to use his brilliance to write something so goddamn confusing that you need a CIA decoder to try to decipher.

 Blake Petit 10:02 pm
    Seriously, just try reading the first page: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8f/index.html

I Started Kindergarten Today!

Lydia Claire, age 5.5

First Day of Kindergarten:

From Orientation: Lydia's first locker:

I Started First Grade Today!

...and Erin is a proud Aunt.

those are her feet heading into the school :) I kinda stalked her...well it was half coincidence, that turned into a stalk :D

Also, from her orientation: Elise's first locker:

For those of you keeping track...

I finally gave in to Blake and have started watching Doctor Who.

For those of you who care I started with Christopher Eccleston's season.

That is all.

Imagine All The Pictures: Part 2.

Who needs Best Buy when you work in a Thrift Store :)
Cord acquired, pictures downloaded :)

New Orleans:

Imagine All The Pictures....

from my trip to New Orleans and more recently the Carnegie Science Center with the Girls that you would see here if my friggin' laptop had not decided to STOP RECOGNIZING THE SD CARD FROM MY CAMERA!!!!

Said camera did NOT come with a cord that I could helpfully use to connect the infernal device directly to the Lappy to download said imaginary pictures.

I'm off to WallyWorld or Best Buy at some point.

Stupid technology.

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all" -- Oscar Wilde

I usually post this in June, you know, half way through the year, but I have been in a "fuck it, we'll do it LIVE" kinda mood about everything for a while now.

Whatever.

Books read so far this year n'at.

Assholes Finish First -- Tucker Max *
House of Secrets -- Lowell Couffiel
World War Z -- Max Brooks *
The Disappearance -- Bently Little
The Godfather -- Mario Puzo *
Squirrel seeks Chipmunk -- David Sedaris *
Harry Truman vs. The Aliens -- Emerson LaSalle *
Mr. Monster -- Dan Wells
I Don't Want To Kill You -- Dan Wells
Sloppy Seconds -- Tucker Max *
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion -- Janet Reitman *
The Martian Chronicles -- Ray Bradbury *
Morning Glories Vol. 2 (GN)
The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz -- Ron Jeremy *
The Copper Promise: Ghosts of the Citadel -- Jennifer Williams *
Chew vol 4 (GN)
Fables vol 6 Homelands (GN)
Fables vol 7 Arabian Nights (and Days) (GN)
Fables vol 8 Wolves (GN)
The Walking Dead Compendium (issues 1-48) (GN)
Secrets in the Cellar -- John Glatt
Hilarity Ensues -- Tucker Max *
The Wolf Gift -- Anne Rice *
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street -- Michael Davis *
Swan Song -- Robert R. McCammon *
The Wolfen -- Whitley Strieber *
Insomnia -- Stephen King
The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life of a Shattered Rock Star. -- Nikki Sixx *
Packing for Mars -- Mary Roach *
The Wind Through The Keyhole -- Stephen King *
As The World Dies: The First Days -- Rhiannon Frater *
As The World Dies: Fighting to Survive --Rhiannon Frater *
As The World Dies: Siege -- Rhiannon Frater *
Rot and Ruin -- Jonathan Maberry *
Dust and Decay -- Jonathan Maberry *
The Ordinary Princess -- M.M. Kaye
Dead of Night -- Jonathan Maberry *
Hater -- David Moody *
Dog Blood -- David Moody *
Them or Us -- David Moody *
Firestarter -- Stephen King
Plague of the Dead: The Morningstar Strain 1 -- Z.A. Recht
The Ruins -- Scott Smith *
Gotham City Sirens: Strange Fruit (GN)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter -- Seth Grahame-Smith *
Blackout -- Mira Grant *
Resurrection Day -- Brendan DuBois *

* =e-book

h/t to GetGlue, without them I would forget half of the stuff I read :)