Monday, September 15, 2008

This is not for you

I'm reading House of Leaves. Whew. Experimental horror novel. I don't think I'm going to be able to do anything else til I'm done.

Lucky for you, W00t found these fun children's books for you to occupy yourself with.

William S. Burroughs’ The Little Engine That Shot Its Wife

Justine And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by the Marquis De Sade

How The Grinch Stole The Best Minds of My Generation by Allen Ginsberg

Read about these and others on the W00t blog.

Also, you can amuse yourself, as the Toddfather and I just did, thinking up things that Complete Idiots shouldn't attempt. We came up with:

souffles
homeschooling
brain surgery
and tantric sex

4 comments:

  1. Or how about . . . accept a nomination for the office of vice president of the United States?

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  2. I fondly recall House of Leaves as one of the few books that made me momentarily as scared as a horror movie. Do you know about the author's sister's concept album that (sort of) goes with the book? I'm being unclear. The sister is Poe, her album is "Haunted". Somehow I suspect you may already know this.

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  3. Tricia, I have not even wiki'ed the guy yet. I sort of don't want to know yet, you know? I'm reading it because it was referenced by xkcd. Lame, I know. But I'll check out the record.

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