Go to http://wip.warnerbros.com/ascannerdarkly/, click enter site, then go to the links at the top left of the page, and click on Room 203 to play the game that Aaron designed for his company...
Ok, I know that's complicated, but it's awesome. He wrote all the questions and everything. There's even hidden numbers, like Chris Carter put into the X-files.


Books that I finished in the last two weeks:

Chris Crutcher's The Sledding Hill: didn't live up to his other books...but he does admit he has writer's block so at least he knows it.

a Robert Cormier book: disturbing as always, and I hated the title so I will not mention it here.

Alex Garland's The Beach: there's no way to describe how amazing this book is. I'll be reading it on every trip I take for the rest of my life.

Alex Garland's The Tesseract and The Coma: doesn't stand up to the beach, though one of them's also about thailand. But still good. I'm in the middle of reading The Coma to Aaron.

And up next:
A Brave New World by A.H. (courtesy of Aaron B.) and Terry Pratchett's Soul Music (i always thought Terry Pratchett was a black ethnic author, probably bc of this title, but instead, she's the exact opposite, writing sci-fi for skinny white boys.)
(edit: she's a he...and the book did not interest me, so i didn't finish it. 6.23.06)

Also, Alice Hoffman's The Ice Queen which I bought at Border's today with Elissa.

currently listening to: clap your hands say yeah!
i am not looking for indie street cred here, seeing as every toy-joy shopping, wheatsville-coop loving austinite has been talking about this band since a year ago. just saying.

a list of words that i hate: tender, purse, dumpling.
is there a commonality to all these words? a phoneme, or whatever?? perhaps the "uh" sound. anyways, just hearing these makes me cringe. And yes, the robert cormier book title is within these.

ok, enough randomness. have fun deciphering that.