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A story I almost forgot to tell: a week ago I accompanied ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazatron to see a production of It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman!, which is, yes, a musical about Superman. It was at a theater at UCLA, and it was one of those fabulously weird L.A. events, where before the show we got to see Mrs. Partridge having a nice chat with the Mayor of Sunnydale in the lobby. But once we got into the theater and I received my program, I discovered something...disturbing.
The actor portraying the bad guy in this musical? Richard frickin' Kind.
*wails* OMG LUCIUS STOP FOLLOWING ME!
Not to mention singing at me! About how you've never won a Nobel Prize! Assiriaeve said, it's like you ran out of mission reports and started raiding Rodney's personal stash of nightmares! It's freaking me out!
*whimpers*
Anyway, Superman eventually defeated him, and thus made him stop talking. (And singing! *shudder*) All together now: THANK YOU, SUPERMAN!
Which brings me to the following, which I happened to have recently grabbed from the library and decided now deserved my attention...
Week 20: 14-20 May
( 111. It's Superman! — Tom De Haven ) The book is a good 425 pages long and when I reached the end all I wanted was for it to keep going. It had only just started to get gay! ;-)
( 112. At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances — Alexander McCall Smith ) the whole series could be said to be slight in length and even slighter in content.
( 113. There Will Never Be Another You — Carolyn See ) This doesn't really work. Wherever it was going, it didn't get there.
( 114. Cotton — Christopher Wilson )while individual sections of this novel are quite compelling and enjoyable wacky, it really fails to come together.
( 115. Small World — David Lodge ) Note: the cover of the 1984 British Penguin edition has an illustration of a bare-breasted woman bound by chains to the 'W' in World; this will make you incredibly popular with strange men who sit down next to you on the bus.
( 116. The Transitive Vampire — Karen Elizabeth Gordon ) Which I guess makes The Transitive Vampire an appropriate (if not especially reassuring) guide; its subtitle is A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed. Yup, that's me! *whimpers*
Total Books: 116
spazatron to see a production of It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman!, which is, yes, a musical about Superman. It was at a theater at UCLA, and it was one of those fabulously weird L.A. events, where before the show we got to see Mrs. Partridge having a nice chat with the Mayor of Sunnydale in the lobby. But once we got into the theater and I received my program, I discovered something...disturbing.The actor portraying the bad guy in this musical? Richard frickin' Kind.
*wails* OMG LUCIUS STOP FOLLOWING ME!
Not to mention singing at me! About how you've never won a Nobel Prize! As
siriaeve said, it's like you ran out of mission reports and started raiding Rodney's personal stash of nightmares! It's freaking me out!*whimpers*
Anyway, Superman eventually defeated him, and thus made him stop talking. (And singing! *shudder*) All together now: THANK YOU, SUPERMAN!
Which brings me to the following, which I happened to have recently grabbed from the library and decided now deserved my attention...
Week 20: 14-20 May
( 111. It's Superman! — Tom De Haven ) The book is a good 425 pages long and when I reached the end all I wanted was for it to keep going. It had only just started to get gay! ;-)
( 112. At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances — Alexander McCall Smith ) the whole series could be said to be slight in length and even slighter in content.
( 113. There Will Never Be Another You — Carolyn See ) This doesn't really work. Wherever it was going, it didn't get there.
( 114. Cotton — Christopher Wilson )while individual sections of this novel are quite compelling and enjoyable wacky, it really fails to come together.
( 115. Small World — David Lodge ) Note: the cover of the 1984 British Penguin edition has an illustration of a bare-breasted woman bound by chains to the 'W' in World; this will make you incredibly popular with strange men who sit down next to you on the bus.
( 116. The Transitive Vampire — Karen Elizabeth Gordon ) Which I guess makes The Transitive Vampire an appropriate (if not especially reassuring) guide; its subtitle is A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed. Yup, that's me! *whimpers*
Total Books: 116
