But why is the cannibal wearing a space outfit?

[mayhap]

My good friend from high school came over yesterday to show me her costume sketches for a performance of Into the Woods. She observed the tub of Legos (or, alternately, Lego) in our living room. which now contains a blue castle inhabited by pacifistic soldiers who think they are renfaire escapees, a cannibal island inhabited by one live cannibal, one cannibal being devoured by a shark, and one monkey, and also two very confused men in rowboats with cannons. Then, unfortunately, she had to go home, and I had to go to work.

In other news, my father has nicked my copy of The Sword and the Stone to read, which is vaguely disturbing to me. I mean, intellectually, I know that the actual book itself does not contain messy boysex, but still ... Hey, at least he'll probably want to take me to that King Arthur movie this weekend.

Am writing other things. Should get back to that, I suppose.

Comments

[mayhap]

Yes, it's a fantastic book whose narrator is an autistic boy who loves the character of Sherlock Holmes because of his use of logic and such, which is something that he can empathize with. The story begins with a mystery of a dead dog and the boy decides to solve it, and things turn out to be rather complicated. The mystery is all the more difficult to unravel because the narrator can't follow the emotional cues of the people around him, and the reader gleans just a bit more than he does from his descriptions.

Oh, and I cried at the end.

[maldiligenta.livejournal.com]

That actually does sound pretty interesting.  Maybe I'll give it a shot after I feel enough time has transpired that it's no longer the current trendy book (I saw two people reading it on the subway this past week... though at least it's not as ubiquitous as that blasted Da Vinci Code).

[mayhap]

Or you could go back in time and read it before it was a trendy book ... no, wait ...

There's a great cartoon in the latest New Yorker of a plane crash site littered with copies of The Da Vinci Code. Which, seriously, why is everyone still reading that book? Everyone was reading that book last summer! Haven't they finished it yet?