LAURA KIPNIS: Against Love : A Polemic (Vintage)
A Brilliant look at love and how our modern culture consumes, uses, and reacts to it.
be careful, this one might have teeth.
Howard Zinn: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
a collection of my favorite leftist historian's writings.
MICK FOLEY: Tietam Brown
this book has me in it now. 215 pages into a 245 page book and it just depressed the hell out of me. which, i figure, is commentary on being engaged. (****)
David Mitchell: Number9dream
a far eastern, multi-textual, urban pastoral, road-movie-of-the-mind, cyber-metaphysical, detective/family chronicle, coming-of-age-love-story genre of one.
Turns out it was a really enjoyable read. Great stories and he transcends genre effortlessly. (****)
Friedrich Nietzsche: Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics)
long term reading if you want all stinking christians to die!
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
I'm having a lot of trouble caring. so far, at least.
Still havent got into it.
JOHN IRVING: A Widow for One Year
Just started this, looks interesting.
John Ralston Saul: The Unconscious Civilization (Cbc Massey Lectures Series)
The problem with attacking ideology and idealogues is by virtue of the process you inevitably create one, and become one. I hung in there right till it happened then laughed and set the book down. (***)
Richard Harrison: Hero of the Play
i love hockey, and i love poetry, but i never knew i could love hockey and poetry. (****)
my pencil is large and yellow.
i'm ruzz.
you know who i am.
well, you figure you do at least, so why not just skip the extended biography and fill your heads with all the images you already made of me when i wasn't there.
and if you don't know who i am, it's probably because i had to whack someone in your family.
and had myself erased from your memory. one stinking blog at a time.
gruelling.
I thought i would add, since i've been kicking here and there since 1999, that you can find some interesting if not offensive thoughts about my past blogging over at the weblog review: click to read the reviews.
My favorite is "he can be highly philosophical at times and downright artless other times"
it's all about scope baby. range. levels. gears and digging out the shit from the overload of information we get in our day.
there. now piss off. i'm busy.
chess, programming, photography, writing on bathroom stall walls, smothering birds, cooking traditional zulu meals, music, contract killing (special rates for small children, women and the handicapped), blahdy blah blah.