Friday Stuff

Michael Yon has a great blog…once you start reading you’ll find it tough to stop.

This guy performs the Star Wars trilogy on stage, alone, in 58 minutes.

Another in the long line of weird stuff that the Brits eat: Marmite.

Photos of people Crying while Eating. (Why?)

The hilarious Amazon.com reviews of Harry Raddick. (My favorite here…)

The King of Cambodia thanks you “for insulting me.”

New blogroll entries: Hot Sauce Blog, and ad Hominem.

Book update…I’m over 300 pages into The Lost, by Jack Ketchum and I’m ready to render a few opinions. It’s grosly misclassified as a horror novel, perhaps a new designation is in order. Perhaps talky gore drama. Or Wordy Butcher Babble. After a couple of murders in the first chapter, nobody dies until the very end. There’s 200 pages of character development and nothing particularly horrific takes place. The book is an exercise in mental voyeurism. I’m not sure why Stephen King is so high on the this writer, he can write internal dialog (that is, characters thinking about stuff) but the rest is unremarkable. Lets see if the final 50 pages hold any surprises.

We’ve got a very small weekend planned. Neighborhood wide yard sale, and Diane works on Saturday afternoon. We may try to take Lauren to her first movie on Sunday (Madagascar.) It’s been getting “ok” reviews, but for kids her age I don’t think it’ll really matter if it’s Oscar worthy.

Finally I set up this gallery of photos for the guys from the paintball store. It’s got almost 50 pictures from last weekend’s action. Check it out.