Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

What Fresh Hell Is This?

Since I'm always looking for more people to tell me what to do, how to act, and what to think, I was intrigued by this list of 1001 must-read fiction titles. And since anything that's vaguely interesting to me is bound to be earth-shatteringly life-altering for you, I share it with you now.

More lists:

  • - 100 essential Jazz albums
  • - The Thousand "best" films of all time (I will save you the cruel suspense: Ironman did not make the list)
  • - And, not quite a list, but a review of a list in book-form (can't wait for the audiobook!), Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days.

  • I love that last site, because a) it's called "Bookslut" (two of my favorite things!), and b) she mentions Neiszche, which as you well know is a primary symptom of pedantic nitwittery (see my previous posts).

    Go forth and be enlightened, my delicious little monkey-lickers.

    Tuesday, October 23, 2007

    Secrets I Keep From Myself

    Sometimes, when I'm bored, I pick my nose. But I don't eat it. That's just gross.

    When I smoke in the rain, I get the hiccups.

    The other day, Indira (a lovely woman, who ends all her emails with "have a wonderful day") signed an office-wide email with her job title as "Human Ressources Coordinator". For some reason, I still don't really know why, I thought this misspelling was funny, and somehow ironic. I should instead have taken it as a sign of her humanity, and therefore her suitability for the post.

    Boxer is right. I'm a total misanthrope.

    Victoria's "Secret" is that her brassieres and panties don't look like that on all women. Or me.

    More and more, the things I hate the most about other people are usually the things I dislike about myself. Okay, maybe this isn't some mind-altering revelation to you, but still.

    No one in the office knows that I have pierced nipples, including me.

    I don't get modern art. Or most poetry. Or Wi-Fi. Or how my car works. I don't get a lot of things, actually.

    Son has total power over me, and I don't mind. Does that make me a bad father?

    All the thoughts I have, that I thought were original, aren't really. Including this one.

    I used to say "This too shall pass", but after a while I stopped saying it.

    Molly Haskell said: "For a woman, there's nothing more erotic than being understood." ... I wonder what the hell she was talking about.

    The short answer to "What the hell is wrong with me?" is: "I can't afford therapy".