Books: October 2003 Archives

Just finished up "Black Tulip", by Milt Bearden. It's a military thriller, but written in such a realistic fashion one wonders just how much truth it might contain. As it was written by a CIA employee one wonders about just how close to the truth it might be.

Reading this make me think about how much the U.S. owes to Afghanistan after using them as a pawn in the cold war, and then tossing them to the wind. Of course, like any co-dependant relationship we were being played as well, used for our money and weapons.

Got a few fresh books today. Number one, a friend sent me "Lamb, The Gosepl According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal". He IM'ed me last week and said he was sending a book, which I thought meant that he was sending me his copy. Instead he sent me a brand new copy from Amazon. Wow, that pretty much makes my day. Thanks, Christopher.

Secondly, I took a batch of books back to the library and got a fresh batch. Today's haul included "The Weatherman", by Steve Thayer, "Pattern Recognition", by Willian Gibson, "Walking with Muir Acroos Yosemite", Thomas & Geraldine Vale, and "A New Kind of Science", Stephen Wolfram. "A New Kind of Science" is one of the heaviest bboks I have attacked in a long time, with over 1200 dense pages.

At the moment, I am sitting typing on a laptop watching one of my favorite movies, "Good Will Hunting". Sometimes I still can't believe that such a fabulous movie was written by two unknown kids from Boston, the same kids who turned in really great acting performances. Hat's off to them for creating a real great film. (I also love being wireless at home.)

"So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure f*** it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President."

Sometimes I wish I could riff like that.