You are likely to be eaten by a grue

Long time no post. No real reason why, just haven't done it. I guess I was a little burnt out after the movie reviews.

It's not like things haven't been happening; moving steadily towards moving. Passport get, visa papers more or less readied if not actually sent–waiting for the second half from the bride-to-be‐and on pace to have enough funds to make the move, if not to live high on the hog when I get there & need to start sending out CVs or resumes or whatevers right away. So that's exciting.

Also exciting? It's Shamrock Shake time, baby! With a McDonalds right up the road it's very difficult not to suck one down on a daily basis. Mmmm mint.

Anyway, I more-or-less officially scaled back on the 52 nonfiction books this year thing, only to start requesting nf books from the library. I read I Am Ozzy, which was actually a decent read, but held no revelations if you've seen Behind the Music. Except for the fact that when he was supposedly clean on The Osbournes he was still sneaking off and drinking & smoking weed. But, you know, NOW he's clean.

Also read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which was amazing. If you've ever had an interest in biology/cells/cell rights you have to read it. The Lacks family, uneducated and poor, got screwed so much that they just turned to paranoiac angry stone at times, and it's hard not to rally behind them. But at the same time, how many amazing things happened from those cells? And they were following then-current guidelines. It's all murky. It continues to be murky.

Right now I'm reading Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh's Gang Leader for a Day, about a(n Indian) sociologists experiences in the inner city of Chicago being with gangs. I only started it last night, but so far so good. And on the table I have big, thick bios of Orson Welles & William Randolph Hearst. The Welles one is actually part one of three, I think, all massive. Nonetheless, this'll be my Citizen Kane period.

I had some book, some eater's manifesto thing that I can't remember the title of (it boiled down to "Eat food. Mostly Plants. Not too much.") that I saw on the Daily Show, but reading it bored me too much to finish.

So, that's me. HOORAY.