Patton Oswalt released a book recently called Zombie Spaceship Wasteland. It is a collection of essays, and the title of the book is taken from the one I'm going to post below. I'm a Wasteland. What are you?

( i know there have been a thousand parsing of the pop subculture... )

Someone told me I need to read Battlefield Earth, but none of the bookstores around here have it. Is it out of print? I also looked for Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt, but couldn't find it either. I'm wasting away in a literary black hole. All we have here are Paula Dean cookbooks ( Read more... )

I stole it from keladry_lupin...

The Rules:

Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen fictional characters (television, films, plays, books, comics) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop ( Read more... )

+ The treadmill and I are getting along again. I've been working out after work each day. It feels so good to get some jogging in after a day in the office ( Read more... )

Has paranormal taken over the romance genre? I went to the library to borrow some fun romance novels since I'm all for brainless reading after living and breathing the Series 7 material for the past month. I would venture to say that 60% of the romance novels were paranormal (vampires, succubi, fairies, werewolves, demons) in nature. 30% were ( Read more... )

Good grief, I've not posted in forever.

I went to the library and checked out two books. One of them is Philip Pullman's new novel, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. I'm sure it is fantastic since I have so much love for Pullman and his take on religion. The other book I picked up was David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with ( Read more... )

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Work, work, work. That's what I do ( Read more... )

Things I figured out I don't like:

Mamma Mia - I couldn't eve make it fifteen minutes into the movie before I wanted to stab myself. So, I watched Evil Dead 2 instead. Bruce Campbell, I lurv you.

Starbuck from BSG - Good god, is there a more unlikeable character ever? I wish she'd just die. There was a moment in the first season when I ( Read more... )

So tired. The rain in the past week has been ridiculous. It needs to end ( Read more... )