Happy Tears

9.24.09

8:06 pm

Just finished this week's Onion.

Good one.

Such headlines include "Cat Congress Mired In Sunbeam" (with an excellent accompanying photo), "Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached At 3:32 This Friday", "Kid With Cancer Hopes To Realize Dream Of Meeting Competent Oncologist" and an opinion piece by LaVar Burton entitled "My Living Nightmare Of Encouraging Kids To Read Is Over".

Well done.

About to finish up "Rant", the third most recent Palahniuk book.

After his first few books, it seemed that Chuck Palahniuk grew tired of just writing a book and had to throw in some crazy literary smokescreen (this is a diary written about the owner of a different diary written by a house...in second person) which was maybe to distract from the lackluster core story.

That was totally the case with his latest "Pygmy", but "Rant" (which is told as a series of interviews with people who knew the main character) has a really intriguing world going on in the background.

Picked up "Stranger Than Fiction", Palahniuk's non-fiction collection, today.

When I get in a mood, I really get in a mood, don't I?

I'm also about to embark on the Knightfall storyline from 1992, apparently one of the only Batman stories to really nail Bane rather than just have him be an angry steroids junky.

But, first, No Man's Land, recommended to me by Alan a while ago.

'S gonna be Batastic.

Or maybe even namblatentastic.

Who knows?

Away this weekend for eye stuff.

God damn these rotten grapes.