I know, I know, I know I should have reported in before now. But sometimes real life just gets in the way. I attempted 5 books in November. I say attempted because I slapped a big DNF (did not finish) on Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. I just can't seem to get into this guy. It's the second or third of his I've given up on, Not so the other four, starting with a biography of Stephen Stills called Change Partners. This followed by a hilarious biography of the guy responsible for National Lampoon called A Stupid and Futile Gesture - How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever. I ended the month reading yet another biography, this one of the man behind Rolling Stone magazine,. It was called Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine. A fascinating read. So last month I hit the magic number 50 I'd imagined for myself back in January. If I roll this month into my yearly total I'm at 54 books. And I still hav...
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Nice round of Sunday Funnies :)
...except you have to quit having those downers of a "funny." This week's: McCain. That's just downright sad :(.
And the banana peel - Leslie is surely grinning at that one!
;-)
I particularly spewed my DDP at Wikipeeks.
But dang, won't that REALLY happen.
I forsee a huge rise in travel by trains in the near future. And if you have to go oversees? Ships and possible pirates don't seem so bad anymore.
...except you have to quit having those downers of a "funny." This week's: McCain. That's just downright sad :(.