So I finally got a Kindle, and for the first day I felt like I had whittled a hard-cover book into a sharp origami stake and plunged it into the back of my local independent bookseller.
But then I held it lovingly in my hands, and read, and read, and read, and now, while I still feel the tug of conscience, I’m not letting this bad boy go.
It’s just so easy to read, holy crap. And to get the next book in a series instantly because I’ve never had the foresight to actually buy more than one book in a series in a time. I’ve made, like, 15 trips to the bookstore during the course of a Terry Pratchett Discworld kick, so the gas savings will be enormous, obviously.
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Our Ridgeback would make a great replacement for the Energizer Bunny, should the Energizer people ever want to take a more destructive approach.
…if I were a rich-ass snob who used a dog-walking service. Fantastic. When I was in grad school, I sometimes felt this desperate, especially one summer when I applied to be a hot dog cart vendor at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and was rejected. I literally was not qualified to make hot dogs at a hot dog cart, when the hot dog cart is pretty much perfectly designed to do nothing but make hot dogs. You could trip someone in the vicinity of a hot dog cart and a hot dog would be produced, it’s that easy. Yet not easy enough for a philosophy grad student, apparently.
This guy is funny though. I wish Craigslist would have been around during my years of desperation so I could have plied my desperation to great comic effect. Because that’s desperation is for: being mined for comic potential.
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From a Salon article comparing supposedly natural sweeteners (or, to put it more accurately, “natural” artificial sweeteners) comes this fantastic description of stevia:
The biggest drawback of this seemingly perfect sweetener is that it has an “odd chemical aftertaste” that is not weakened in the baking process; one tester described the aftertaste of the cookie as “psychological torture.”
Tell us what you know or we’ll sweeten your coffee, and you wouldn’t like us when we sweeten your coffee.
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There are many funny things in this world, but they all pale in comparison to basset hounds in motion.
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libraryland:
May those who love us love us.
And those who don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn’t turn their hearts,
My he turn their ankles,
So we’ll know them by their limping.
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I think this is what R2D2 would really have said. We’ve been subject to C3PO’s self-serving translations for far too long.
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lazybookreviews:
All Runner-Ups Are Equal In The Eyes Of The Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviewer.
Do not read Dune if you’re the type who slurps daiquiris and ogles the scenery at some all-inclusive resort, your pores oozing from humidity and booze. This will not be the book for you. Sure, you think that one time…
Wow, I did not expect to even be in the running, much less be among such good company in the top 5. Thanks Lazy! This was a blast to write.
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