Reading Queue

Well, I said you could force me to read the Great Gatsby and you done it. 21 votes out of 45 (and I voted twice) led the pack by a wide margin. So, I'm reading the thing. I'm up to chapter 5 and so far it's like being at a party where I don't know anyone and the people I meet I don't particularly like and that's ok because most of the guests there are looking down on me and avoiding me at all costs so I'm just downing as much free booze as possible and hanging out in the library checking out all the other books I could be reading. Oh, and every once in a while I see a cockroach on the buffet table or a dead mouse behind the bar. I'm contemplating just ripping out page 73/74 for the squicky racial references. Oh, and there's a few Gatsby cartoons in Hark, A Vagrant! which I've also been reading so I kinda spoiled the ending a bit. Oh, but it's good though. Images... Images everywhere. Doc Ecklebergs' eyeballs will be staring me in the back of the head until I finish the damn thing so once I get this posted I'll get back to reading. Here's the rest of the reading queue.

This one didn't technically end up in the top three, but I'm reading it on Christmas anyway. While watching A Christmas Story. And if anyone bothers me I'm pounding them like Scott Farkus.

Ah, here we go... the perfect counter to Gatsby. F. Scott may have had Zelda, but Bruce had Ossie Davis as Jack Kennedy. I think we all know who wins there!I have no idea what to expect from this one. I flipped through the pages and there's pictures and graphs and stuff in there. I hope I didn't make a terrible mistake by thinking this is a novel and not an actual self-help book explaining how to make love the Bruce Campbell way because there's a picture of Bruce and Jack Nicholson in there and I don't really want to know how to make love like that.

NOT looking forward to this one. Especially in my current morbidly depressed state of mind. (Did I mention I inexplicably and irrationally hate Christmas this year for some reason?) The peeps have spoken though, and I can't very well be a comics hipster without reading this even once no matter how often I hang out on /co/.

Finish up with a baseball book. I drew the dude, I may as well read him. If I knock these suckers out before January I might jump into The Illuminatus! Trilogy. I have a week off next week and got today off because I got a sore throat last night which made me nauseous when I brushed my teeth and I puked this morning right as my carpool got here so I'm sick and embarrassed. That information probably wasn't really necessary. The point is I will have some down time and a horrible case of drawer's block and I'm almost done with my Arrested Development DVDs so I'll have a lot of time to read. What's that you say? Why don't I just blog about cards? What a ridiculous question.

OH MY FRIGGING GOD RADIOHEAD'S NEW ALBUM IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD SATURDAY

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Watch this now

Because the nanosecond a certain movie studio gets wind of it you'll never ever be able to watch it again.

Context is a good thing

What I did this weekend instead of blogging

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta opened a Salvador Dali exhibit yesterday and my wife surprised me with a trip to go see it. I've been to the Dali museums in St. Petersburg and Paris so some of the exhibits weren't new to me, but I could look at Dali all day. Heck, some of his paintings I could stare at for a week and still not figure out. This one might take a month. Other well known paintings in the exhibition include Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina, Santiago El Grande, The Madonna of Port Lligat and my personal favorite. Any time you get the chance to see Dali's Christ of St. John of the Cross in person I highly recommend you take advantage of the opportunity.

There is also a ton of Dali photography by Phillippe Halsman (Warning: link has nekkid boobies) including another favorite of mine, Avida Dollars. There sadly wasn't a print or postcard of that one, so I picked up this postcard of Dali Atomicus instead. In the audio tour there was a neat explanation of how the picture was taken after 29 tries, and this site has some hilarious outtakes from the photo shoot (and painted nekkid boobies so don't get fired). The show was very educational, I learned that pictures of rhinoceroses scare the hell out of three-year-olds and that my eight-year-old is extremely interested in art, especially the pictures I warned you about in the links above. There was sadly no Dali trading card set, so the postcard of flying Dali, water and cats will have to sate your ephemera appetite today.

I also checked out the Howard Finster collection in the folk art section. This has nothing to do with Dali, I just really like Howard Finster. A lot. I'll try to steer the post back to Dali and finish off with the video for Debaser by the Pixies. I'm not linking to Un Chien Andalou because that movie still creeps me the hell out. Dali, you scary!

It's just not happening tonight

I have about 40 posts I want to write but I've got a splitting headache and I just popped two Tylenol PM so dayf's going bye bye for a while. Instead, enjoy pretty much the funniest thing ever.

A treat for Dayf

I have had a long, but very productive day. Heck, the past week has been pretty dang good to be honest. So, on the way home I stopped off and got myself a special treat.


It doesn't always have to be about baseball cards, you know... Card posts will be up later tonight.