I'm almost done with my current book ("The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen, review shall be forthcoming), and I'm getting angsty because my reading pile has run out! oh noes!

Now, for my next book, I want to read a 'classic'. One of those Ye Olden Times books that maybe you were assigned for 8th grade English class but you ended up loving anyway. So my request is that you tell me what your favorite pre-20th Century book (fiction, please) you think I should read. Comment with suggestions or ideas, plz kthnx!

Let's make it look all official-like:

What's your favorite pre-20th Century book?

Come on, people, I need help!

Because I'm sick of feelin' blue and whining, here's an entirely gratuitous photo of a mostly naked Gerard Butler:



Enjoy.

Also, why is it so hard to find a good, full-view picture of him in 300 gear? You know, with the impossibly perfect body barely covered by a..loincloth thing and a cape? why! why!

Mmmm. I'll enjoy this one for now.


**EDIT*

A'DUH

My safe search was on. But when I turned it off, the results were far beyond satisfactory and mmmmmm:



and





*NGH*

I don't know who his friend is but...ohgod who cares. ngh.

Apologiies to the my male...friends...but...um...yeah. what was I saying?..abs...mmmmmmmmmm....huh?....Gerard Butler....

*falls over*

Holy crap, you guys.

You HAVE to check this guy out. I am in complete and total awe of him.

http://www.petercallesen.com/index.html

I mean...holy shit. That is some of the coolest stuff I've EVER seen.



*dies from the awesome*

TV! TEEVEE!

( oh boy oh boy oh boy. Spoilers OF COURSE )

Oh man I talked a lot about Lost. But it was fun.

You know what's also fun? Not being completely exhausted by the time I get to watch my Thursday Night TV, and not having to go to bed immediately after it ends.

And not having to teach on Friday.

It feels really, really good. I shall celebrate by sleeping til noon and then maybe going shopping. Hurrah!

And maybe a haircut?

(I love this icon)

Courtesy of lisa:

YOUR FIVE ODDEST TELEVISION CRUSHES*
No, not the obvious The Doctor or Doug Ross. Have this weird fondness for Monk? Or maybe Simon Cowell? Now's the time to confess it. Links please to a photo/site for your crush.

* Characters or reality show figures, not actors

Heeeeeeeeeeeere's MINE:


1. Gordon Ramsay, Hell's Kitchen


He's totally hot, ok? And it helps that he can cook and is super rich and tells assholes who need to shut up that they are assholes and need to shut up. Plus, my favorite insult ever is 'you FUCKING DONKEY'. Also, he's british. What else do you want?

2. Tim Gunn, Project Runway


The grey-haired man is gorgeous. He's classy, and refined, and elegant and oh so awesome. Who cares if he's a little bit gay...


3. Matsaharu Morimoto, Iron Chef


Though I never watch this show anymore (no Food Network in Honduras, booo) this guy was always my favorite chef EVER. He was awesome with a knife and cooked things that looked so delicious I wanted to eat the television. Plus there was that one time that he called Bobby Flay an assclown, though he did it in nicer words. Stupid Bobby Flay.

4. Henry, Ugly Betty


Cutest nerd EVER. *EVER*. 'Nuff said.

5. Phil Keoghan, Amazing Race


Phil is the shit, ok? He's just the best TV show host of all time. He always looks angry or disappointed with someone, but when he smiles, he lights up the world. NO one treks everywhere quite like he does, always looking good and awesome no matter where he is. Plus, there's the hot New Zealand accent. Mmhmm.


I'm sure I have more, but I'm sticking to the rules ;)

GUYS !

*GUYS*!

I have found the most awesome and/or crazy and/or bizarre product ever.

Love hot dogs?

Love octopi?

Then you must have the OCTODOG!

This just made me so very happy.

PS: *PLEASE* look at the instructions. THey are the most awesome part of all!

Second post!

I have nothing to say, so here's a totally awesome, AWESOME picture:



Haaaaai-YA!

PRAYING MANTIS STYLE.

FOR REAAAALS, YO.

DAMN!

It was my evil plan to post at least one thing an hour. This is what happens for sleeping til noon.

Anyway, how's your strike going?

HAPPY STRIKE DAY :D

Because I am extremely lazy right now, and because I tend to let people who can say things better than I can do the talking, I am going to express my feelings about this whole ridiculous "LJ Strike Day" by linking to the awesome ringlass's entry about the strike (which itself links to another entry of someone who says exactly what I think too):

http://ringlass.livejournal.com/255186.html

NO STRIKE.

WHY?

BECAUSE YES.

AND BECAUSE IT IS STUPID.

Oh, I completely forgot to note that I finished "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini.

Excellent book, moving story, but honestly nothing as spectacular as I was expecting from all the hype. I think I'm just kind of iffy about contemporary literature.

I should have posted a review right after I finished it, because now I can't remember what my impressions were, exactly, other than I liked it but it's not going to be something to stick in my memory forever.

So that's book #2 on my List of New Books I Have to Read so I Don't Spend the Year Re-Reading Things and Stuck in a Bog and Not Knowing Anything New.

Still working on the title.

Am now getting through "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers. Best title ever? Possibly. It's a bit of a hard read, because even though some passages are brilliantly written and impressive, there's also parts that just seem like babbling and are a bit incoherent, which I guess is kind of the point, but it does get to the point where I can't read much of it at once. Good book, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it to many people. It seems geared towards a very specific group that I'm not sure I'm part of. But I'm not done with it yet.


Anyway that was my very lame and uninformative reading post. Because I said I'd do it!

WOW.

This might be the single scariest thing I have ever seen in my LIFE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRIDiCqA6s4

BAT.
SHIT.
CRAAAAAAAZY.

Copies of this video are being taken down as soon as they're up, it's kind of freaky. But, can you blame them? Whoever 'them' are (John Travolta? Will Smith?)? Go watch it before it's gone.

Watch it. Spread it. Let people see the depths of crazy that this freakish cult inspires. I just...it's just hard to believe it's REAL, you know?

no words. NO WORDS. Except:

BATSHIT FUCKING CRAZY.

A story on abcnews: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/comments?type=story&id=4138621

Salon has more fun with it:
http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/01/16/scientology/


***EDIT***

It's 9:42 pm, and the video has already been taken down.

Fast, fast work. Bastards. But look for it, I'm sure you'll find it.

WOOO! SATURDAY!!!

Christmas-gift hunting!

Christmas decorations!

Shopping!

Moneys!

Lazying around!

Pizza!

WOOOOOOOO!!!!


*dancedance*

yaaaay December!

blarghity blargh blargh blargh.

Blargh blargh, blargh; blargh.

Blarghblargh blargh?

BLARGHITTY BLARGHUN.

Blargh.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Four-day weekend of win begins NOW!

Only 29 more days til Christmas vacation!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

*dances around the journal*

Janitor: I always get this way in the fall. You know? Summer's gone, the days are shorter. It just makes me feel so . . . what's the word?
JD: ...Sad?
Janitor: Yes, that's it. I'm a janitor, so I couldn't think of the word "sad". I was going to say "it makes me feel so mop."

..................Al Gore?

Are you fucking serious?

Here's how we play: You respond to this post using only an icon that you think appropriate and I -- and anyone else who cares to -- will respond using an icon of my own. OH THE HILARITY!

ETA: An icon that *responds* to the previous icon.

p.s. you have to put something in the text field or LJ won't let you post it, but a period will do