Tuesday, 16 December 2008

Have it your way...or not.


Did this while I should have been studying for finals, sorry it's not the best but I did it all on the computer so, ya.
Any way it won't make sense if you haven't seen the new burger king commercials but if you have then hopefully you know that hindu people worship cows... I thought it was funny, and also sad that they had to drag random cultures into the great burger dispute, but maybe that's just me.

Thursday, 4 December 2008

Sugar Rush!!


This is an old comic that I hadn't posted and just found right now.
The moral of the story is pretty much don't snort sugar, though I tend to get hyper just by eating food so. (Don't worry, I've never snorted sugar, nor do I plan to.)

Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Book 'em (Lenny the Librarian)


If you don't have a pension for reading this may be a bit boring for you, but shame on you for not reading...it's fundamental after all.
Yesterday, on a whim, I went to the library. Well, I guess it wasn't really a whim; I did need to get a book for a monologue I needed.
However, something about the library just makes you wander around. I don't really understand it, I think it is some magical spell that a large collection of books acquires and draws you in. You walk down row after row, not even sure what section you are really in; but that doesn't even matter. Even if I do have a specific book I'm on a quest for, I either go in search of more or just sit down in the isle and just read a bit. It's like nothing else is around all the cares of the day and things yet to be done don't exist; for the time being you are in you're own world. That may sound nerdy, but whatever, it's true. However, I find this only true when in a large library not like the tiny one that is down the street from by house back home.
Any way the point of this little adventure. While wandering yesterday I ended up in a section that I'm guessing you'd call the foreign section. There are books in a variety of different languages and by a variety of different authors from other countries. In a way it's like a club that you aren't really invited to, that is if you can't read and understand that other language.
They do have translated versions, but I wonder if parts are lost in translation.
The novel I stumbled upon is called In Her Absence and it was such a good book, considering I did finish it in about a day or so; and the author looks like a cross between Javier Bardem and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. I mean it was kind of a depressing love story of types, but the way it was written and the characters made it a great circular story. At times you feel so like the characters and yet so unlike them, but you still forge a connection with the characters and can't help but feel for them. It takes place in Spain, as it was originally written in Spanish. Needless to say, I fully recommend this book; if you get the chance you should definitely read it.