happy berfday to me(5/24):
and i wonder why i keep getting carded although i'm but two short and rapidly fleeting years away from being a ken olin abc drama. they say that time flies the older that one becomes and as much as i hate to give reluctant kudos to the smug and pretentious and hazily blurred chalk smeared "they" i have to admit that it's true. life doesn't flash before your eyes as you die, as cliched and melodramatically cinematic as it sounds. it flash fries flambes as you blink and fades before your eyes can completely focus.
taking only one course over the summer and being unemployed equates to perpetual tedium. the night before the alleged rapture was to take place i decided to read the first of the left behind series as a sarcastic smirk. per usual, the joke was on me because despite the fire and brimstone, sub par writing, horrific violence, obvious racial prejudice, very subtle anti-abortion references, classism, and totally transparent christian one sided blinders aside, i did kinda want to see what happened. but really? did the african american characters have to talk like bumbling maids in a mae west movie? so i read all 12 400-450 page books in a week. thank god (was that inappropriate?) for speed reading. i was impressed by the amount of research into aircraft, geography, history and biblical passages that must have been needed to pen such an unfortunately judgmental tale. and thanks (and no thanks), catholic high school for helping me get the insider jokes. i tempered this unexpected and highly skeptical god kick with preacher jay bakker's book fall to grace.
this is simply a duel spire of a quasi-book review, not a religious commentary because i didn't read either for religious reasons. just curiosity.
I still get carded all the time =/ Everything else you wrote didn't really make sense to me, but that's probably because I've had a few drinks and can't read properly. I'll come back tomorrow.
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