It's go time, bitches
Dec. 19th, 2004 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaToday's Horoscope of Irony: Forget about work -- it's time to play. Of course, there are some responsibilities that you probably can't get out of, but there's no reason you can't have fun while you go about your everyday life. Make a game out of a chore, or listen to your favorite music while you clean the house or wash your car. Life is too short to be miserable, and if you really think about it, you have very little to be upset about right now! Make every minute count and don't forget to laugh and smile.
Am working on book. Fighting "Lord of the Rings in Fifteen Minutes" and losing. (Preliminary art for the book cover listing the ten movies: "Lord of the Rings [all three, and probably in more than fifteen minutes]".) If I can't finish off this whole albatross by tonight, I'm moving on and coming back to it. Also, I've turned off email alerts for comments on this entry, but I'll be around when I take breaks. If you're not hearing from me, that means things are going well.
Two reader requests: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
sapphireisle and her mom Christina are trying to find Super Dollfie dolls, which apparently are only available in Japan. They're looking at buying some of the dolls so that Christina, who is a great seamstress, can make doll clothes to sell on eBay and so on. Anyone got any advice on how to get hold of the dolls? (I suggested Genes or Tylers instead, myself.)
And from katcat: "I need help. I have a tutorial (lit) that I'm taking next term based in American literature. I'm trying to come up with a book list and I was wondering if maybe you could post asking people to recommend some American lit? Ideally more of the classics but contemp stuff is cool too. No Mark Twain or Hemingway. I just really would like to hear some opinions on stuff to read (outside of stuff I can think of) and I thought you'd be the best person to beg. If you could, I'd really, really appreciate it."
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Date: 2004-12-19 11:04 am (UTC)Also,
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Date: 2004-12-19 11:40 am (UTC)then again, i'm still in high school so i'm not as well-read, but these are the obvious ones. i really liked as i lay dying, which i read on my own- it is also a somewhat confusing read.
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Date: 2004-12-19 03:40 pm (UTC)faulkner is hard to understand!
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Date: 2004-12-19 12:58 pm (UTC)Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrims Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land: With Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents)
Toni Morrison (Beloved)
Margaret Atwood (Catseye)
Sheri Tepper (The Gate to Women's Country)
August Wilson (Fences)
Black Elk (Black Elk Speaks)
Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club)
Olaudah Equiano (The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself)
Enjoy!
Angie
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Date: 2004-12-19 02:16 pm (UTC)I'd second Amy Tan. I haven't read Dave Eggers yet, but A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is on my own list of books to buy.
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Date: 2004-12-19 06:38 pm (UTC)And A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is BRILLIANT. I recommend reading the first second you get. One of the best books I've ever read and the first to ever make me laugh outloud. There were times where I had to stop reading and laugh for about five minutes solid!
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Date: 2004-12-20 10:25 am (UTC)Tell you what. When you're done with your reading for class and have some free time, read "Catseye" anyway. It's a great book, Canadian or not. ;)
Angie
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Date: 2004-12-19 02:02 pm (UTC)(speaking of LOTR, you ever found the easter eggs on the extended editions? The one on disc one of RotK is particularly hilarious.)
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Date: 2004-12-20 10:27 am (UTC)Angie
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Date: 2004-12-20 04:35 am (UTC)*giggles*
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Date: 2004-12-19 03:21 pm (UTC)And thank you to all of you who responded! I'm working on replying to all of you but goodness! You all rose to the occasion spendidly!
Oh! Oh! Idea baby! Maybe...
Date: 2004-12-19 04:47 pm (UTC)**NOTE: Since it's gawd-damn bloody impossible to do these 3 movies in 15 minutes becuase of the SHEER VOLUME OF HILARIOUS MATERIAL (and imagine what would have happened if Peter Jackson hadn't butchered the literary work) I proudly bring you
*Drum roll*
LOTR in 15 MINUTES, TEH SPECIAL EXTENDED EDITION! - with over 9 additional minutes of material!
See, my darling fans! I'm not going to write this book, then re-release the it 9 months later with a few more precious minutes of hilarity that STILL doesn't include more than 38 more seconds on the houses of healing and the characters formerly known a Faramir and Eowyn. That's why you love me!
- The Goddess Cleo
I vote for Hopscotch Hill Dolls
Date: 2004-12-19 04:55 pm (UTC)I'd vote for the American Girl Hopscotch Hill Dolls, myself. My neice has a couple, and I ahve one, but finding clothes for them is virtually impossible, at least finding decent clothes is, making it an excellent market to break into on ebay!!
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Date: 2004-12-19 10:29 pm (UTC)Speaking of M15M...eagerly anticipating new arrivals.
Oh, on the American Lit thing... I vote for Kinky Friedman.
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Date: 2004-12-20 05:59 am (UTC)Yarha, Never the Twain Shall Meet
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Date: 2004-12-20 08:16 am (UTC)Hemingway... again... another person who I've read a lot of. I was going for stuff that I haven't read fuckloads of:)
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Date: 2004-12-20 09:41 am (UTC)Toni Morrison - Jazz
Arthur Miller - anything he wrote
Judy Blume - Wifey (for a change from all the 'high' literature)
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Date: 2004-12-20 05:27 pm (UTC)And though I hated it the first time around: Billy Budd by Herman Melville. The second time I read it, I GOT it. But the first time--ugh. I was ready to slit my wrists it was such a slow read. Hmm...maybe I should retract that recommendation. Unless the syllabus requires two readings.
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Date: 2004-12-20 08:54 pm (UTC)"One Writer's Beginnings" by Eudora Welty is a beautifully written, slim volume well worth reading. Her short story "Why I Live at the P.O." displays her talent for comedy.
Anything by Florence King, but "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen" and "Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady" will have you clutching your sides and gasping with laughter.
Thomas Wolfe - "Look Homeward, Angel" and "Of Time and the River"
Alice Walker - "The Color Purple"
Checks bookshelves. Finds mostly comic books, non-fiction, and copies of above mentioned. Crawls back into well of illiteracy.