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Effluvia Tori Amos done messed around and had a baby. Full details are available at The Dent. There are porno links down in the entry. Watch out for that one to Hustler - the pop-ups never stop coming! That Will and Grace sure is funny. And as far as books go, I used to just treat James' house like a library and get all the latest science fiction and fantasy. Now he has my copy of House of Leaves. Don't you, James? You had it when you moved, right? Journals
Siobhan likes being unemployed. Sonya likes it too. I should try it sometimes.
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09/07/2000 Meatloaf I work with a guy who looks like Meatloaf in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I saw him this morning. That's funny, 'cause Sonya made meatloaf for dinner last night and I actually took some meatloaf for lunch today!
Tuesday afternoon, some time after I got home from work, the heat wave that had dominated New Orleans since about a week before we moved down here quietly went away. Yesterday morning a cool breeze was sweeping down Magazine Street as I walked the dog. Yesterday was warm, sure, but I drove home with the windows down in my car and, last night, Sonya opened all the windows in the living room and I sat on the couch all evening, reading and enjoying the breeze. For those of you unfamiliar with southern heat and humidity, let me assure you that having all those windows open would have been impossible this weekend. Heat exhaustion and death could have resulted. Well, maybe not. We are young and healthy people. Had we left the windows open last week we would have been hot and annoyed, though. That's almost as bad. Hell, the car I had in high school and college (and a year after) didn't have air conditioning. The secret with that was to keep all the windows down all the time and never stop moving.
This Is Spinal Tap was on the VH1 last night. A classic, of course, and I always thought the band was quite believable compared to their early eighties butt-rock peers - Rainbow, Deep Purple, Bad Company...bands like that. My favorite moment? When the director of the documentary (Rob Reiner) is asking them about past reviews for their albums: "And Shark Sandwich got a two word review: shit sandwich." "Can they print that?" Nigel Tufnel asks. Shit sandwich. I think that's the perfect expression of a negative opinion. The Backstreet Boys? Shit sandwich. Showgirls? Shit sandwich. Full House? Shit sandwich.
Speaking of which, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen turned 14 back in June. That means that...oh, in the summer of 2004 we should see them in a pictorial in Penthouse (or possibly Hustler) with lots of heavy lesbian/incest overtones. Really, what use does anyone have for grown-up twins, anyway? A said I was reading, right? I reread The Hobbit over the past few nights. It's been years. I'll probably start working on the Rings trilogy tonight. That Tolkien was a creative guy, coming up with races and languages and what-have-you. The Hobbit is probably in my top two favorite books, right along with A Confederacy of Dunces. What else do I like? Stephen King and Anne Rice, Poppy Brite and Clive Barker. Carl Hiaasen and Jimmy Buffett and John McDonald. Doug Coupland and Dennis Cooper. Tom Clancy and TC Boyle. Horror and beach bums, slackers and fags. I think all this must be leading up to... The Harold Recommended Reading List!
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