I post this 'cuz I just finished reading Treasure Island. I got this app Stanza for the iphone which lets you read any public domain work that's in Project Gutenberg. It's pretty handy to have something to read on the phone when waiting and you don't have a book, like at the garage or sometimes on the subway, etc. So I was looking through the public domain books and saw Treasure Island, downloaded it and wow was it good! Rollicking great adventure, well told, and with so much pirate canon it was amazing. There's a great pirate toast in there that they make before drinking:
Here's to ourselves and hold your luff / Plenty of prizes and plenty of duff!
Sometimes when things are sort of worked to make me crack up, I get a bit down at how they’re trying too hard…do you know what I mean? Like it can all seem a bit calculated to be blog-bait and get people to forward it around…
this should fall under that category, but it made me laugh out loud, so I guess it’s doing something right…
it's gonna be slim pickens for a little bit yet folks, we're off to the Adairondacks and PA and DC for shooting for the doc, back on Sunday, will resume posting then, don't panic…I will try to keep the pics and good vibes flowing…
meantime, to tide you over here's a picture I made of Tupac's body and Steve Jobs's face.
I'm sure that somewhere there's a way to make MIA's Paper Planes sound lame, but this is not it. Onion AV is doing this thing where they have bands cover new and old classics, and this is The Clientele rocking MIA. The violins and everything…it's so good… The Clientele covers M.I.A.
