Random Tangets Spliced Together in the Hope that a Story is Born
Everything you need to know about this weekend, but mostly stuff you don't
Everything you need to know about this weekend, but mostly stuff you don't
I left work a little early to drive to New Orleans to catch a plane to Chattanooga. I don't think people do a very good job of checking their mirrors when they drive. There was a car in the left lane whose driver was oblivious to the fact that she was being quite an effective rolling road block.
So i finally make my way around her and some time later i see a police car coming up from behind in the left lane, with lights and siren on. Everyone else gets out of the way. Meanwhile, Captain Oblivious is beboppin along in the left lane with the cop about a foot and half behind her.
And this morning, the same sort of thing happened. I watched a police car with lights on try to pull a car over, only to have it drive along for about a mile not noticing the cop. the car still hadn't pulled over by the time they were no longer visible in my mirror.
The plan was to fly from New Orleans to Atlanta, then from Atlanta to Chatanooga. Courtney and I would meet her mom and two of her mom's friends in Chatanooga and stay there Friday night. Saturday morning, we'd drive to Knoxville and watch the LSU-Tennessee game. Then Sunday we'd drive to Atlanta and fly to New Orleans that night.
I selected my in-flight reading material at Books-A-Million Friday. I picked up (which i think was a sitcom for a little while) and Love MonkeyThe Hound of the Baskervilles. I got Love Monkey because I think my friend Ryan read it and said it was funny. I read most of it on the flight up there, and finished it off on the drive to atlanta.
All-in-all it's a fairly entertaining book about a 32-year-old who works for a tabloid named Tabloid. He's trying to land the girl of his dreams while juggling a batch of potential back-up plans.
There are laugh-out-loud moments. And the longer i'm away from it, the more I guess I'm OK with how it ends. I sort of felt it built up to something that was supposed to be big, but instead it just sort of stops. But the author throws enough in there that upon further review actually accomplishes enough to call it an ending rather than a "stopping."
I give it three and a half out of five stars, with it being closer to four stars than three stars. So maybe 3.6667 stars.
The flight to Atlanta was uneventful. I remember being hungry before we left new orleans, but there wasn't too much available food wise. We had a shot layover in Atlanta, so we grabbed some Quiznos before we caught our flight.
When they called our zone to board, we went through the gate and down some stairs -- never a good sign. we walk outside to about the smallest puddle jumper i've ever seen, and definitely the smallest plane i've ever been on in my limited years of flying (flew for the first time Dec. 2003).
I don't handle flying particularly well, so i was not a happy camper at this point. we all board the plane. a few minutes before take off, the stewardess announces over the intercom, "For weight distribution reasons, we need someone from rows one through five to move back somewhere in rows 12 to 17."
Oh, shit.
I was sitting on a plane where the location of 150 pounds actually made a difference. This was not going to be a comfortable flight.
Turns out it wasn't so bad, just very shaky. From there we went to the hotel and went to sleep.
To be continued...
1 comment:
I'm pretty sure you're the first person ever to read a book based on my recommendation. Maybe I should start the Ryan Book Club. Right now I'm reading something called "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Ever heard of it? It's a tad difficult to read because the author, this Mark Twain guy, apparently is illiterate. The grammar in this book is absoultely awful! Because of this, I don't expect this book to make many waves in the literary world.
Anyway, I agree with you about the ending of "Love Monkey." But I guess the only way for it have a memorable ending was if it had a happy ending, and I can see how that might have been a little too cliche considering it was a borderline love story. But other than that, I thought it was well written and very funny. I agree with your 3.666667 rating.
Speaking of, I saw Tom Cavanaugh, the guy who starred in "Love Monkey" in the five minutes it was on TV, running through my neighborhood in the NYC Marathon on Sunday. He ran about 2 feet in front of me, and I yelled at him, "STUCKEYVILLE!!" (a reference you'd only get if you watched the other show he was in, "Ed.") But he was running with his headphones on, and he didn't even flinch, even though I thought I was being quite boisterous. Either his iPod was blaring or he was just ignoring me.
Man, I can't find time to write in my own blog, but I can write in yours? I might just have to copy-and-paste some of this stuff and put it in my own.
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