reading pleasures

Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

I really love this book. The first time that I've felt that my 12 years of Catholic school did me any good. If you're easily offended, skip this book. This story is narrarated by Biff, Jesus' best friend, who chronicles the years that the Gospels don't mention - 6 - 33 of Jesus' life. Biff goes through life with Jesus, his confusion what being 'the Messiah' means, not being able to 'know woman', dabbling in Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, falling in love with Chinese food, and accepting his path as the savior of the world. Biff is Christ's protector, his best friend, and has sex with all the women that Jesus can't.

This book is hilarious, and it's going on my list of 'books to tell people to read.' There are a lot of references to all the religions of the world, especially Christianity and Judaism.

"Joshua, you're the Son of God. You're the Messiah. That implies -- oh, I don't know -- that you're a Jew! You can't eat bacon."
"God doesn't care if we eat bacon. I can just feel it."
"You're going to need more than that to usher in the kingdom of God, Josh, no offense. We can't go home with 'Hi, I'm the Messiah, God wanted you to have this bacon.'"
"I know. We have much more to learn. But breakfasts will be more interesting."

Moore is going to hell. And I'm going to hell for loving it.

at the movies

finding nemo

This movie is absolutely adorable! I remember not expecting much from it when they were showing trailers for it way back when. But Fatima saw it, and insisted that I see it. So we went, and it was great!

Pixar has outdone themselves once again. I remember being amazed at Sully's hairs in Monster's Inc, but that's nothing compared to making waves, and simulating movement under water. Finding Nemo not only is visual masterpiece, but it also has a great story, with characters that you immediately grow to love. Ellen Degeneres' character is a trip, the turtles are raaadical, dude! and Nemo, well, I just want to take his fishy little face and squeeze it til it pops.

There were some scary parts, though, because it IS underwater. The sharks aren't the only scary thing in the sea! But I stayed tough, I even looked at the screen during the scary parts and didn't hide my head in my jacket, or start crying like the wimpy little 5 year olds in the audience.

Speaking of, I hear that many fish have been liberated from home aquariums after kids have watched 'Finding Nemo' and been flushed down the toilet. Little do these kids know that the sewage system will most likely give these Nemo-wannabes a slow and agonizing death during the water.

Getting an honorable mention are the previews for 'Brother Bear', Disney's next animated movie, which got me a bit misty eyed. Also, Pixar's 'The Incredibles', which reminds me a lot of the CrossGen comic, 'The Crossovers', which chronicles the everyday, normal life of superheroes. I'm counting the days!

comic you should be reading

fray, dark horse comics

Somehow I missed this issue coming out. Then again, I didn't go to the store in 2 months. Anyway, I love Fray. The fact that the comic comes out every 7 months is just a minor annoyance. The story follows Melaka Fray, a vampire slayer 200 years after Buffy's time. Life is way different, but there's still vampires to kill. Joss Whedon kicks ass with the story in this book, and Karl Moline's pencils give it a gritty, futuristic feel. Kat - you need to pick it up when the trade paperback comes out!

yummy for my tummy

frapuccinos

Well, they're out of my price range right now, and have WAY too much fat (22 grams), but it doesn't stop me from staring at the people walking out with them from the Starbucks in my building.

addiction

sleeping

Been SO tired lately! I've been falling asleep at about midnight each day. *gasp* that means I've been getting more than 5 hours of sleep each day!

Posted by Yano at June 10, 2003 09:35 AM

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