June 9, 2005

• Topic: currently reading

  
  

  So…i have a confession to make.  99% of the time that i’ve posted on the books i’m reading, i haven’t really been reading the book.  I don’t post them often, but when i did in the past, i was more skimming through ‘em.  On some people’s sites you see a different book all the time, it’s kind of intimidating, like “Shit…i’m a slow reader if i’m not reading a book a week.”

  
  

  Anyways…my mom took out the Closers from the library, and i’m about 30 pages from finishing it.  It’s surprisingly taken me 3-days (today being nearly a full day of reading), but it’s really the most page-turning book I’ve come across in a long time. 

  
  

  I haven’t read a light, fun, fiction book in a while.  A good ol’ story about a teenage girl who gets stolen from her room, shot and murdered.  17 years later case gets re-opened, and there’s your story.  It was more like reading an episode of Law & Order, which my parents obsessively watch but i’ll probably start watching after reading this book.

  
  

  Jon Stewart interviewed Colin Powell tonight…don’t you wish his show was an hour!  So conversational…and by bringing in a rare guest straight from the Bush cabinet, you actually get a rare feeling that there’s actually some intelligent people there.

  
  

  Bush on the other hand…still a bit slow.  There was a clip of him w/ Tony Blair discussing aid to Africa. 

  
  

  Bush: “Funny story…I remember when Condi asked me, hey George, are you going to pay attention to Africa, and I said I would.” 

  
  

  Oh…it’s just so sad.

  
  

  And his guest, Steven Johnson, wrote a book on why pop culture is good for us.  So…to all those, “I don’t watch tv because it’s bad,” well…sure, some of it sucks, but, it ain’t going away just cuz you’re not watching it, so cozy up on the couch and enjoy the boob tube.

  
  

  Even Jon Stewart eluded to the idea that we watch too much tv, perhaps.  It might be strenghthening our brains in some way, but, “what about ol’ fashion talking.”  A friend the other night went on one of those speaches about the doom and gloom of society, and how we’re not connected enough w/ our roots, w/ nature, how we’re so distracted by technology.  Well…before all this technology, what was there to talk about?  After asking “how was your day?” you wouldn’t be able to follow-up w/ “Hey…did you see the Daily Show last night?”

  
  

  More tv = more socialness of society.

  
  

  No more life updates still…meaning, I’m tired of talking about me for a while.

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