Mar 11 2008
My laugh for the day, twitches, and books.
“HD radio is a fad, like the internet. Or pockets.” — From a regular radio’s POV in a Radio Shack commercial heard in the car this morning.
It’s impossible to find music on the radio in the morning. Everybody’s flapping their gums about stuff nobody in my car cares about, but it’s really not worth lugging CDs around for a 5-minute car trip, so we usually just flip channels and listen to commercials.
It’s STANDARDIZED TESTING MONTH (don’t get me started on FCAT), so everybody is driving their kids to school to make sure they show up (because the school makes money off those tests, and if you do anything to feck up their profits, they will do everything in their power to ruin your life—but I come dangerously close to getting started…), and as a result, traffic is backed up, and the trip takes more like 15 minutes. Angelic daughter finds Fall Out Boy on the radio. We are awed and amazed. After that, Sara Bareilles. Double awe and amazement. Not only music, but music we like.
Angelic Daughter, having inherited her mother’s cynicism, says, “Don’t get too excited. They’ll play Rihanna next to screw it up.”
And they did.
(WTF, incidentally, is with the ressurection of that “momasay, momasah, momatmusa” crap? That’s a thousand times more annoying than um-bah-rella, um-bah-rella, um-bah-RELLA. It was embarrassing in the 80s. Let it die. Please, for the love of humanity, let it die.)
So, to cleanse my Rihanna-tainted spirit, I came home and bought books: Happy Hour of the Damned, Magic Burns, and Devil May Cry (could wait for the paperback without spoilers there because I told anyone who would listen the very first time Kat showed up, she was going to have some relationship to Ash that would make dating her icky—I was off in that I would have hooked her up with Nicky Nick, though). Courtesy of a giftcard, the lot cost me two bucks.
Lots of good stuff coming up later I dropped into my wish list, such as back-to-back Kresley Cole releases and CodeSpell by Kelly McCullough (Webmage, Cybermancy). May is so very far away…
My ambition to diminish the TBR pile, as you can see, is a dismal failure, but ambition and I have never exactly meshed well, so I am neither surprised nor dismayed by this development. In fact, books make me happy, so deprivation is kind of self-defeating. I should be buying more.
Oh, and I should probably read one at some point…
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