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wickedfleaThis weekend I finished the longest book I've read in a long time: Doug Brinkley's The Great Deluge. It's quite a book--staggering in its thoroughness, and it shows that there's plenty of blame to go around. Highly recommended. Brinkley, by the way, is the editor of the books of Hunter S. Thompson's letters that have been coming out for the past few years. I think the last one is being published soon.
To balance that, I've also been tearing through my copies of The Complete Peanuts. Man, I love that strip. Yes, I'm a huge nerd. But I'm bummed now because I've caught up--I hadn't really read any of them, just glanced through, and now I've read all six in a frenzy. So now I'll be waiting even more anxiously for the next one to come out, and this will continue until the run is completed in 2016. (!!!)
It's flippin' cold! It's 38 outside, and about ten degrees below that inside, it feels like. Man. 38. I think that's about as cold as it's been in the daytime since I've been in AL. In CT, 38 in mid-January woulda felt like a heat wave! (Although I understand they're having a mild winter there. Figures that it would wait until I left. :P)
My office is a flippin' mess. I feel like doing the Ignatius J. Reilly filing method and just throwing half this shit away.
To balance that, I've also been tearing through my copies of The Complete Peanuts. Man, I love that strip. Yes, I'm a huge nerd. But I'm bummed now because I've caught up--I hadn't really read any of them, just glanced through, and now I've read all six in a frenzy. So now I'll be waiting even more anxiously for the next one to come out, and this will continue until the run is completed in 2016. (!!!)
It's flippin' cold! It's 38 outside, and about ten degrees below that inside, it feels like. Man. 38. I think that's about as cold as it's been in the daytime since I've been in AL. In CT, 38 in mid-January woulda felt like a heat wave! (Although I understand they're having a mild winter there. Figures that it would wait until I left. :P)
My office is a flippin' mess. I feel like doing the Ignatius J. Reilly filing method and just throwing half this shit away.
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Date: 2007-01-16 06:46 pm (UTC)Did you ever see that "Hey Ya, Charlie Brown" video on Youtube?
The lows have been in the 30s here for the past couple days. Enough already! I left Illinois to get away from that crap. (Then again, 30+ degree weather is considered "balmy" back there.)
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Date: 2007-01-16 06:52 pm (UTC)Yep, I love that "Hey Ya" video. I just watched it again--so well done!
I actually don't mind when the temperature is right around where it is now, so long as I know it isn't going to last. That months-on-end winter stuff they do in the North is for the birds!
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Date: 2007-01-16 09:52 pm (UTC)Do you subscribe to the idea that Schulz's best years were done by, say, 1980? Or earlier?
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Date: 2007-01-16 09:59 pm (UTC)In general, yes--I think I'd put the cutoff mark maybe a little earlier than 1980, but I'd really have to revisit the later stuff to be sure. When he got into stuff like Snoopy's brothers (not just Spike but the fat-ass Olaf), he kinda lost me. Yanno, not LOST me, but it just wasn't the same. But of course he still had his moments, so I wouldn't say he should have quit or anything--I'd have freaked out if he had, I'm sure.