Tuesday's adventures

Ms Tao called me this morning to inform me that Tim Burton owns the rights to Katherine Dunne's Geek Love. Now, I loved this book. It was sick, twisted, and outrageously fun to read. The way I read it was unique, as well. Ms Tao and a friend of ours from Seattle read it aloud to each other one night (and into the morning). We took turns reading. It was a great way to spend an evening. In fact, I'd love to find a group of folks to do that with again.

Now, back to Mr. Burton. A google search suggests that he's had the rights for a few years, and that he's already made the film in an animated fashion. Since it hasn't been released, I gather it tanked. It hasn't even made IMDB.

Assuming Burton's talent hasn't dried up, I think he would do a wonderful job with the book.

Jogging update: two more miles today, running at a .1 mile/hour pace. No pain in the knees or shins, and I am still able to walk normally.

For those who are familiar with the reference from the Kids in the Hall: no, I choose not to have a baby this month, and oh yeah! the bills are due!

Blargh.

On Homebrewing: I can't decide if I want to start with bottling first, or go straight to kegging. The idea of maintaing fresh kegged beer for extended amounts of time seems appealing. But then I'd want a kegerator. Oh, I'm such a toy whore.

Tenacious Plug

I love these guys...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&e=5&u=/nm/20031104/music_nm/music_tenacious_dc

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Well, I'm all hyper for no real apparent reason. I did get the GTA bundle for Xbox. So begins my fantasy crime spree!

But first, I must do some situps and weights for pre-penance.

Oh, and:
--CBS folding to conservatives is frightening. Shame on them. Shame, shame, shame. But, if I were Barbara Streisand, I'd be ffffffaaaa-reaked out that my husband looked like Ronald Reagan for even five minutes. I'd get schpilkus in my gennectagazoink (sp).
--As for partial birth abortions: I don't care how grewsome it sounds. This still needs to be the decision of the individual carrying the child. The government has plenty of other things to focus on first. Bush is all about smaller government, except when it comes to infringing on individual rights. And his devotion to human life is so clear when he's demonstrated the willingness to send countless soldiers to war over a bogus cause.
--Gary Ridgeway. Oh, another face of evil. Still, he's responsible for less death's than Bush. He's admitted to hating prostitutes and not wanting to pay for sex. So the solution to this was to fuck the prostitutes, then kill them. Way to slip between the horns of that dilemma. If he accidentally gets killed, I shall not fret.

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"Saving Jessica Lynch"

Gag me.