CPOTD
I haven't had a Cute Picture of the Day for awhile, so here it is:
SOMEBODY got into the flag cake!
Courtesy of Cute Overload, of course.
I spent the 4th of July lying in my hammock, reading The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie. It was a really fun read: the narrative voice is extremely clever, lots of plays on words and such. The only let-down is that the villians turn out to be the "military-industrial complex" and rogue elements of the CIA who decide to stage a terrorist attack (well, a bloodless kidnapping) so that some guy can sell his fancy new helicopter. And the virtuous Brit turns the tables on them. Yawn! Oh, uh, I guess that was kind of a spoiler.
But it was written in 1996, pre-911, so I can't be too annoyed with the conspiracy theory resonances. And besides, the whole book is supposed to be a send-up of the spy genre, and it relies on clichés, turned on their heads, for its charm. And it was, indeed, a charming little read.
It's not fair that some people have so much talent: writing, acting, music. And fabulously good at all three. I'll take his writing talent off his hands, if it gets to be too much for him. Really, it's no problem.
SOMEBODY got into the flag cake!
Courtesy of Cute Overload, of course.
I spent the 4th of July lying in my hammock, reading The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie. It was a really fun read: the narrative voice is extremely clever, lots of plays on words and such. The only let-down is that the villians turn out to be the "military-industrial complex" and rogue elements of the CIA who decide to stage a terrorist attack (well, a bloodless kidnapping) so that some guy can sell his fancy new helicopter. And the virtuous Brit turns the tables on them. Yawn! Oh, uh, I guess that was kind of a spoiler.
But it was written in 1996, pre-911, so I can't be too annoyed with the conspiracy theory resonances. And besides, the whole book is supposed to be a send-up of the spy genre, and it relies on clichés, turned on their heads, for its charm. And it was, indeed, a charming little read.
It's not fair that some people have so much talent: writing, acting, music. And fabulously good at all three. I'll take his writing talent off his hands, if it gets to be too much for him. Really, it's no problem.