tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post110798135886184401..comments2023-11-03T09:09:32.113-04:00Comments on Behind the Stove: Happy Chinese New Year!BabelBabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00467487618830618571noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-1108048836704464152005-02-10T10:20:00.000-05:002005-02-10T10:20:00.000-05:00I've seen that--classic!I've seen that--classic!Ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03753481035768736548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-1108045366845860522005-02-10T09:22:00.000-05:002005-02-10T09:22:00.000-05:00Careful you don't say that too loud. Arthur's fly,...Careful you don't say that too loud. Arthur's fly, Buster promotes gay marriage...who knows what DW is up to, for all we know she's a gangbanger...obviously the world of children's television's going to hell in a handbasket. What's next, PBS reality shows? <br /><br />In a complete non sequitur (is there anything other than a complete non sequitur? Can you have half-non-sequitur?), I can't find it online but my favorite cartoon of all time is a Mother Goose and Grimm. Some random person is floating, in a basket, down a river of fire towards a giant gate labelled Welcome to Hell. His thought balloon reads, "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"BabelBabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00467487618830618571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10685011.post-1108004639516696522005-02-09T22:03:00.000-05:002005-02-09T22:03:00.000-05:00Screw Disneyworld--the library is the happiest pla...Screw Disneyworld--the library is the happiest place on earth. I think we should get the ALA to put that on posters, don't you?<br /><br />I had a fit waiting for this evening because it was raining and I couldn't hold my bag, my drink, my umbrella and my book all at the same time. Stupid rain. So I stood there and thought about my book (The Death of an Ordinary Man). Not about the book itself, nestled in my bag next to the books and articles I should be reading for class, but about the main character, and whether I care enough about him to find out what happens. I decided to skip it--the book is well written, but it's all too obviously Baby Boomer-ish for me, like the movie American Beauty was. It turns me off.<br /><br />I'm going to start Stephen Elliott's Happy Baby when I go to bed, which should have been hours ago, since I have to get up at 4:15 for tomorrow's early pledge shift. Sigh.<br /><br />If I can drag myself to the library after work, I can pick up The Easy Hour: A Novel of Liesure, which I think Mimi recommended, Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602, a biography of Teddy Roosevelt for my Teddy to read for school, and the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD. <br /><br />There's an episode of the PBS series Arthur where he raps (rather ill-advisedly, I admit) "Having fun/isn't hard/when you've got a library card!" Arthur's so fly.Ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03753481035768736548noreply@blogger.com