Mikie, David Bowie & Jonathan Safran Foer

[queerbychoice]

I spent this weekend having a 24-hours-long AIM conversation with Mikie during which we broke up, un-broke up four hours later, ate dinner twice, and brilliantly resolved a great many issues that needed resolving. It was the Conversation to End All Conversations. It was a work of art. I am impressed. I am also, however, walking around today convinced that my watch and my coworkers are conspiring to play some sick joke on me by pretending it's Monday already when I haven't had the correct number of sleep cycles for the weekend to be over yet. It's not even that I'm tired; it's just that it really feels like it should be Sunday now.

On the way to work today a woman in front of me drove her car up onto the sidewalk and knocked over three successive neighbors' garbage cans. It was a strange and disturbing sight and I resolved to put as much distance between my car and that driver as I possibly could in as short a time as possible. I successfully escaped unharmed.

UPS has been attempting to deliver David Bowie's latest album Reality to me since Thursday and they refuse to deliver on evenings or weekends so I'm going to have to drive all the way to the city of West Sacramento (I live in a non-city to the East of Sacramento) to the UPS building there after work today to pick it up from them myself. Perhaps in the future I should not give in to the BowieNet offers to pre-order his albums online; if I have to go pick up the album myself anyway then I'm sure I could find plenty of record stores far closer to my home than West Sacramento.

I've also begun reading the novel Everything Is Illuminated, which I requested and received as a birthday gift after hearing Daphne praise it highly, and then got around to finally reading after Morgan also praised it highly. Currently I'm somewhat confused as to what inspired all the praise though; I can see that the book has technical merits but so far the characters feel a little flat and unbelievable. Then again, I'm only on page 30 so maybe it's too soon to comment on that yet.

Anyone who hasn't seen it yet should really go read "Jesus Doesn't Wear Prada" (which was called to my attention by upsidedownblue) and be very scared now.

Comments

[fightingwords.livejournal.com]

well, i recommended EII to daf after i picked it up based on a couple of public radio interviews with the author. it's currently my favorite book. it took me a minute to get into it as well, but it's definitely worth it....

[jkatj.livejournal.com]

I often find ordering things to be unsatisfactory. Sure, it seems great at the time. "Oooh, I can pre-order it, and they'll bring it right to my door."

But when the reality sets in (after you've ordered it and missed the delivery twice and have to drive 45 minutes to try to get to the warehouse before it closes), stopping off at the store to get it seems like it would have been a much better idea.

Yet I forget that time and time again. I'm not a stupid person, but I forget that time and time again.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[socialismnow.livejournal.com]

I have trouble with deliveries too. If people use the Royal Mail, there's no problem, because they've got a key to the block of flats (apartment complex, in your terminology) and will deliver to my letterbox regardless of whether I'm there. If the parcel is too big or needs to be signed for, I can collect it from the postal sorting office, which is ten minutes' walk from my home.

But if a company tries to send something via ParcelForce or UPS, I usually end up redirecting it to my work address.

[socialismnow.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure I've had 12-hour conversations before, but I'm doubtful about 24. That's pretty impressive. But I'd definitely be tired if I did that.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I'm not even terribly sure I've ever even stayed awake that long before in my life. I'd been up for about 10 hours before the conversation started.

[the-moonshiner.livejournal.com]

"Jesus Doesn't Wear Prada"

OH MY GOD.

Faith in humanity ---------------------- minus.

[theobscure.livejournal.com]

a) I had the same problem with Everything is Illuminated when I started it. But I think it might be intentional—one of the most wonderful things about the book, I found, is the way Jonathan and Alex’s writing changes and evolves over the course of the novel.

b) I want the new Bowie album, but I am too broke, so it has been relegated to my list of birthday requests. I will probably be the last self-respecting David Bowie fan to own it.

c) "Jesus Doesn't Wear Prada": that has got be the most depressing thing I’ve seen in a long, long, time. When will men stop trying to destroy women?