Erin's Blog

Dilbert

Dilbert and Office Space always make me feel so much better about work. At least somebody understands, you know?

Plane tickets. Lots of plane tickets - Artur style.

Mushrooms. Green beans. Lots of kinds of vegetables, actually.

I really hated green peppers for a while because my mom would put them in everything... but now I kind of need them in everything for it to taste right. It's pretty sick. :)

Geek Love : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

Katherine Dunn

Let's see how this whole book-reviewing thing goes, shall we?

I absolutely loved this book - I thought it was fantastic. Grotesque, yes. Repulsive, also. Several parts genuinely made me feel pretty grossed out. But I couldn't put it down - and not just because I thought it was funny to walk around carrying a book with its title.

The really interesting thing is that the parts that truly repulsed and shocked me had nothing to do with the bizarre aspects - the physical deformities deliberately genetically engineered by a carnival-owning couple through drugs and other means - but the parts of them and the characters in the book that are so incredibly, disgustingly, pathetically human. The jealousy. The feeling of complete inadequacy. The need to feel special - even if it means monstrous. The need to be loved. The Machiavellian manipulation. 

Also it's just a great story. Highly recommended.

Thanks to scsi for hooking me up with a vox invite. Not much to say - lots of fun stuff going on, but everyone who'd even potentially read this will probably already know all of that.

I don't take many pictures since I seem to always be hanging out with people who do, so... here is a picture of a giant rabbit that makes me happy for some reason.

Rabbit