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Invisible Monsters
by: Chuck Palahniuk
I’ve been out of my comfort zone before, but I’ve never been wrenched from my comfort zone at 3am with a bag over my head, and tossed into a blender with scraps of a story whizzing before my eyes, catching glimpses as I fight to get my footing, yet loving every second of it. This is the work of Chuck Palahniuk. This is what it feels like to read Invisible Monsters.
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It’s the times I look back on how many seasons the shows I grew up with have that make me feel old. The title reference for example.
At any rate, B and Kelly came up this weekend to see family and stayed with us! Amme and I aren’t the most exciting people right now, so we may or may not have kept them entertained, but we had a good time at least. They went to a flower show with Matt’s family and got us a little bamboo plant! I’d seen them before in Chinatown but never got one because we were so far from home. Its really cute and is sitting on a little shelf in the living room. They came up Saturday and got done visiting family around 6, so we decided to go find a restaurant with vegan options for them around Bangor. Little Lads Bakery shut down, very disappointing, so we went to a Pakistani restaurant that was very good. Some dishes were similar to Indian food, so Amme and I ordered samosas, lamb curry and rice, and naan. It was all really good, and the mood of the place was really neat. It even had some catchy native music playing.
After that we went home and watched some TV shows until we were too tired to keep our eyes open, and crashed for the night. The next day we relaxed for a while then went for a stroll in the woods but there was still a lot of snow on the trails so we ended up cutting it short. Not having gained very much energy despite sleeping in, we just lazed around the house until B and Kelly had to head home. After that Amme worked on her paper that was due and I worked on wikipedia and my TiddlyWiki for a while.
All in all, we had a really fun weekend and hope to see more of our friends soon!
“Makes me feel old” he sez. Hah. ;)
I remember when both your mother and I were in diapers. Along with that big irate black Persian cat. And the TV was black and white. And we had to walk twenty miles uphill to school, uphill both ways.
But the important part is to remember all your memories of your childhood, it helps you stay young. As Terry Pratchett said: inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
Remember that pen and blank book I gave you one xmas?
Hahaha very true. At least I know I’ll never feel *too* old. I’ll never tire of playing with toys, and will never be above having fun.
Do you mean the thick black one with a couple of alphabets and drawings in it? Yes I still have that at home. I drew a lot in it and wrote poetry in it as well. I also have the Titanic Tommy drawing you did for me! Its still fun to look at all the gadgets on it.
When I was younger I thought journals were for just for girls (that had cooties of course) but nowadays I wish I had written in one every night.
I’ve implemented a couple of small updates to the site today. I had always assumed WordPress had a printing style it defaulted to if you tried to print a post, however if it did/does, it was lost when I converted my old theme to the new version. I got an email from a reader who was disappointed that he couldn’t print my tiddlywiki article. I was actually shocked to see how horribly his browser rendered the page for printing. The sidebar was running over the text and it was just illegible.
A quick google search yielded a painless plugin to palliate my printing problem (sorry I couldn’t resist the alliteration). The WordPress Plugin Repository offered up the WP-Print plugin, which is available at lesterchan.net.
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I though I’d post a little update on what I’ve been up to lately, so here goes.
I’ve been pretty busy with work and school as usual, but for the past two weeks I’ve been on break. The first week Amme and I went up North and visited with the family and friends. I hung out with Evan a few times, but didn’t get to see Jalbey hardly at all… bummer. Hopefully I’ll get to spend more time with them soon.
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damn wiki vandals!
i’m surprised they don’t force login for editors, everwhere else forced people to register but no no of course the one site that could really use it doesn’t hehe
Good to hear that your break went well, and sorry that its already over. As far as Wikipedia is concerned I am sort of for the idea of having editors log in, but I still think that the beauty of the Wikipedia world is that it can be edited by anyone who chooses. I actually think that by actually almost forcing people to use their critical thinking skills is a good thing. Someone who is able to note a clear bias or factual issue has proven that they know how to research something correctly and then can change the entry based on further work.
Dad is discussing. 
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Dad 11:20 pm on 4/15/2007 Permalink
nice review of this book Tom. Not sure if Idare to read it. haha
love ya
dad