Can't tell I've been on an ERB kick, can you?

Things I Am Reading:

The Chessmen of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Terrible - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris

Things I Have Recently Finished:

A Fighting Man of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, Maid of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods Of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan's Quest - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Magnificent - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Golden Lion - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jungle Tales of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Escape On Venus - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Carson of Venus - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Russian Fairy Tales - Collected by Aleksandr Afanas'ev
Scandinavian Folk and Fairy Tales - Edited by Claire Booss

So, yesterday I removed twenty-two empty two-liter bottles of Mountain Dew from a room in the process of cleaning it. (It wasn't any of our rooms, let me assure you :) I have never seen twenty-two bottles of anything outside of a store shelf. Just the thought of that much Mountain Dew gives me the cringies. I never could stand the stuff.

I also wrote 1400 words yesterday, give or take a few. It was really productive.

And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."

Your friend is your needs answered.

He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

And he is your board and your fireside.

For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."

And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;

For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;

For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

And let your best be for your friend.

If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live.

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet, " chapter 19

In a somewhat lighter vein, last night's SNL with Gerard Butler was hysterical. They're always watchable, even when when they aren't stellar, but last night's was excellent. I'm currently waiting for the Grand Hootchie Skank Rose "commercial" to pop up on YouTube...

Some days I need this shirt

Because if it were at all possible, lords know I'd have done it by now.

Things I Am Reading:

Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Scandinavian Folk and Fairy Tales - Edited by Claire Booss

Things I Have Recently Finished:

Japanese Fairy Tales - Juliet Piggot
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
Ship Of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Clumsiest People In Europe, Or: Mrs. Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide To The Victorian World - Mrs. Mortimer, compiled and edited by Todd Pruzan
Old House Plans - compiled by Laurence Grow
The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train Through Asia - Paul Theoroux

Two-Sentence Movie Reviews

Zombieland

What a hoot- clever, hilarious, exciting, and affecting. Go see it while it's still in theaters!

I am absolutely bloody sick of the whole "The Mayan Calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012!" bollocks. Guess what guys, the Mayan calendar rolls over in 2012- it's cyclical, not linear. Making it to the end of a cycle was a time of celebration, not of baseless fear and shitty films.

Things I Am Reading:

Ship Of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
The Great Railway Bazaar, By Train Through Asia - Paul Theoroux

Things I Have Recently Finished:

The Wonder Clock - Howard Pyle
The Original Boys' Handy Book - Daniel Beard
The Original Girls' Handy Book - Lina and Adelia Belle Beard
Basic Writings - Chuang Tzu, trans. by Burton Watson
Opening The Dragon Gate, The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard - Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao, trans. by Thomas Cleary

Two-Sentence Movie Reviews

Moonraker

Owlvark: "Sounds like someone's just flushed the space loo."
Duamuteffe: "They were probably trying to get rid of the film."