Melting

July 24th, 2006General2 comments

So hot… So very, very hot…

Yesterday was my thinking day. I spent a few hours thinking at the Hammer, then went to Borders to think some more but it was too crowded (filled with air-conditioned air moochers!) so I had to come home and think here.

I got some good thoughts down on paper. I just wish it was cooler. But hanging out in the shade with a liter of Diet Coke does a lot to get the brain hamsters running.

Recommended: The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

This book makes the idea of being trapped in a loveless marriage seem extremely cool in a Dashboard Confessional kind of way. Also, it makes me hungry, what with all the talk of delicious food and the chopping of delicious food too.

The prose floats nicely too. A great summer read.

Also Recommended: Battle for Middle Earth II for the XBox 360

The video game where you can command giants to crush hobbits with massive boulders. There’s nothing more satisfying than that, is there?

The animations in this RTS are brilliant — especially when dudes get knocked on their keesters by cavalry and the aforementioned flying boulders. Plus you can zoom into your buildings to see lil’ orcs sawing wood and stoking the fires of their evil military machinery.

Yes, this is the only blog in the world that reviews both Pulitzer Prize winning short story collections and Xbox video games.

Sometimes you wake up and yesterday feels like it was a century ago. I woke up this morning and my life and the things I did felt like they took place a couple of decades in the past. I think I had a dream that made me feel that way and it’s still lingering.