Fwd: Abid Z.

Current Playlist:
Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall

Sunday Funnies [El.]:

Burning Man: If it wasn’t having to suffer through PortaPotties I would so go and spend a week here. Experience it. Actually maybe I’ll still go someday. Primarily for the art ofcourse. I’m not into the whole hippie free love angle.


The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler

Drugs, murder. Fight Club except a generation younger. Not quite as gory. Real. By real I don’t mean the circumstances or the eventual twist. I mean what it feels like. The lies, the deception mainly decieving oneself. It’s more of a feminine book I suppose since it seems to mostly revolve around heartbreak and fairly anti-men in general. But then it was written by a man so I don’t know and it’s definately not a trashy romantic novel. Would I reccommend it? I would. Although you should probably be forewarned that I tend to sensor my reviews.

Description from eBooks(The Study Questions actually do show up in sections of the book and tend to be quite funny):

It’s first semester senior year, and Flannery Culp needs her friends more than ever. Her homeroom teacher is a tyrant, her biology teacher is a pervert, and in a few months the Winnie Moprah Show will broadcast vicious lies calling her a Satanic murderer when they really mean murderess.

Flan needs Kate, even though she gossips incessantly. She needs Gabriel, even though he has a scarcely requited crush on her. She needs V_____, whose name has been changed to protect her wealthy family. She needs Douglas, who can get absinthe. She needs Lily, she needs Jennifer Rose Milton, but most of all she needs Natasha — beautiful, brave Natasha — who is turning her calculus teacher’s advice — do something — into a formula for panache.

Flannery needs all of the Basic Eight because high school can get so stressful, you just want to kill someone.

Vocabulary:

TYRANT
INCESSANTLY
SCARCELY REQUITED
PANACHE

Study Questions:

* In order to sell, a work of literature now has to be condensed into a few pithy paragraphs on the front flap. Does this seem right to you? Why or why not?
* Really, the only way to tell if a book is any good is to purchase it for yourself, take it home, and read it all the way through. Don’t you think? Why or why not?
* If a boy is messing with your head, is it okay to pummel his head? Why or why not?

Aver [Moneeza A.]: New Muslim magazine which just came out. Considering I know pretty much everyone writing for it and on the editorial board, I figured I’d give it some readership. Not quite sure yet what I feel about the content. Most of the UTM folks would probably recognise the names.

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Really quite pointless. Maybe the movie was better. Lots of adolescent boys far too infatuated with a brood of unhygenic, suicidal wraiths who eventually do themselves in for no discernible reason except maybe to prove their otherworldly, ridiculous philosophy. I’m betting they were on crack.

A Simple Tale: “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. Never forget that.”

And continuing my series of prominent figures who look startlingly similar, consider Channing Tatum and Josh Hartnett

Suffering extreme Coca Cola withdrawal. Just realised that’s probably what got me through the afternoons. Argh… But it has got to go. Will do a follow up when I manage to go a month without it. Make that a week. That should be a triumph in itself. The worst part is I never drank that stuff more than once a year until I turned 18 and went to University. Darn. Wish I could do coffee instead. All pop has to go. Now!

Items to be removed from diet:
- Coca Cola or any sort of pop
- French Fries
- McDonalds (Or Harvey’s Wendy’s etc.)
- Pizza (Homemade being an exception)
- Iced Cappacino [Add On]

Bus!

Zombie Letters from e-zombie.com

Unfortunately can’t be bothered to squeeze the letters in one line.

The Real Firefox: Ubercute

Talking relatively ofcourse. Diamonds and pearls and roses all pale in comparasion. What I wouldnt give to be sitting at Max Brenner right now in NY drinking dark hot chocolate. This place literally looks like it was custom made for moi.

Anti-telemarketing EGBG Counterscript

Solution for Road Rage: Am I the only who thinks this could lead to road rage?

Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed: Has the world gone mad? No I apologise. I should not stereotype. Rephrasing, are the people who created this rukus mad? In similar news Muslim Doctor wants apology from U.S. Airline

Face Recognition Demo: Haven’t tried it yet but do share experiences.

Lego Takes Tech Over the Top: I want!

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 Longlist has been released. Personally I’m a bigger fan of the Governor General’s Awards (->Official Site) but don’t think they’ve been announced quite yet.

When We’re Gone, a print by Susan McKivergan

And since I seem to be going nuts over laptop covers these days:

Skyn
Schtickers
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