Category Archives: books

Batty meme'd me

Jen tagged [tag]Batgrl[/tag] for the [tag]123 meme[/tag] and Batty tagged me. When I’m done, I might tag you, so pay attention.

The 123 Rules:
1) Pick up the book nearest you with at least 123 pages. (No cheating!)
2) Turn to page 123.
3) Count the first five sentences.
4) Post the next three sentences.
5) Tag five other bloggers.

Here goes:

[tag]Neal Stephenson[/tag], [tag]Zodiac[/tag]

I had an idea already: 1,4-diamino butane; a.k.a., putrescine – the distinctive chemical scent given off my decaying corpses. I could whip up a batch and carry it with me. That would give anyone second thoughts.

JunglePete needs a copy of this book, although I worry it might give him ideas. So as not to digress, I’ll sing praises to Zodiac tomorrow on my bookblog.

In the meantime, I need to tag five bloggers. Hmmmm.
1) [tag]Cyd[/tag] (a Raveler. Her first meme!)
2) [tag]MizShoes[/tag] (a Raveler, a blog365 member, and one of my oldest link swappers! Er, in blog years, not our age).
3) [tag]Stereotypical Single Woman[/tag] (blog365)
4) [tag]Rae[/tag] (blog365)
5) [tag]Burt Reynolds’ Mustache[/tag] (hilarious)

There you go. I probably destroyed all order in the universe by giving in to a meme, the first in 8 years of blogging, unless I’ve repressed doing one somewhere along the line. I’m not anti-meme. Honestly, I just usually forget I’ve been tagged for ages because I’m an airhead.

Happy Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday

“Mystery Man’s Annual Visit to Poe Grave”

It would seem that the mystery man who visits [tag]Edgar Allan Poe[/tag]’s grave each year may have passed the mantle to his sons.

BALTIMORE – Undeterred by controversy, a mysterious visitor paid his annual tribute at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe early Saturday, placing three red roses and a half-filled bottle of cognac before stealing away into the darkness.

Nearly 150 people had gathered outside the cemetery of [tag]Westminster Presbyterian Church[/tag], but the man known as the “[tag]Poe toaster[/tag]” was, as usual, able to avoid being spotted by the crowd, said Jeff Jerome, curator of the [tag]Poe House and Museum[/tag].

The tribute takes place every Jan. 19 — the anniversary of Poe’s birth.

[read the whole article]

You can visit the website of the Poe House and Museum in [tag]Baltimore[/tag]. There’s also a Poe Museum in [tag]Richmond[/tag].

You could celebrate Poe’s birthday by reading some of his work, or you could just watch one of the many loosely imagined [tag]Roger Corman[/tag] adaptations.

Fight Club on Ice

Back before the dawn of time (2004) Ain’t It Cool taunted us with rumors of [tag]Fight Club: the Musical[/tag]. They asked [tag]Chuck Pahalniuk[/tag] about it:

Seems it’s mostly true.

At a reading last night on the UW campus, Chuck answered a question from the audience about the fight club musical. He said that the same folks who financed the movie are tentatively behind it, as are Fincher and Reznor (who’s agreed to do the soundtrack!). but…he did note that while they’ve got a bunch of talk going on and the promise of Reznor, they ain’t got much else.

Chuck went on to say that most of the stuff they do with his writing he doesn’t care about; he says he can’t really control how the studios fuck with his characters or themes, so he just accepts the checks and goes on his way. Choke, Survivor and Invisible Monsters are all in some form gonna hit theaters (Choke first…starting filming in a couple months). BUT, he did say that he’d be personally involved in just about anything if he got to work with both Reznor and Fincher on the project (he said he’d even do “Fight Club on Ice” if that’s what it took).

Recently, I started seeing links to a Paste Magazine article that seems to repeat the rumor. Alas, Paste Magazine has one of the least reliable websites in the Universe, so I don’t know that we’ll ever know what the article really says unless we make the effort to find it reposted somewhere else.

[tag]McSweeney’s[/tag] posted a fake soundtrack listing for Fight Club: The Musical. “You Can’t Talk About Fight Club … but You Can Sing About Fight Club!”)

Over at The Cult (ChuckPalahniuk.Net), it appears that Cultleader Dennis is much too busy with the website redesign and news about the forthcoming release of the film version of [tag]Choke[/tag] to mention a Fight Club musical, even if there is one brewing. I tried to search the site but it’s really slow right now.

New Choke stills are posted, by the way. Also, tantalizing suggestions that I am Legend director Francis Lawrence may still be making [tag]Survivor[/tag]. I find that last bit much more exciting, because I adored Survivor but was sort of lukewarm about Choke. It was a great novel, I just wasn’t crazy about it. Maybe I should read it again, it’s a quick read. I’d rather see [tag]Fight Club on Ice[/tag], though. That sounds like it would be time well-spent.