4 posts tagged “qotd”
What won't you miss about 2007?
Submitted by uncagedbird.
Five words: Rhetoric in the Electronic Media. Sounds harmless....but it wrecks mental stability.
What's the best book you read this year?
Yeah....like I can pick one....
I may love this book because it's the last one I read....but it was different from the run of the mill fourteen dollar paperbacks. It may not have come out this year but this is when I read it so oh well.
I've always loved the movie (hellooooo John Cusaaaack....) but the book is so funny and honest. I love an honest piece of literature. If you want insight into the illogical thinkings of men when it comes to love and relationships, this must be read. It opened my eyes to how the other sex views love, sex, breakups, and everything in between.
I wish every guy came with a book like this...a sort of manual of how his brain works. We women needs this kind of enlightenment in order to function alongside men without strangling them out of frustration.
If you know me, you know how deep my obsession for Saturday Night Live and good comedy/comedy writing/stand-up runs. I think I've had a crush on Steve Martin and his banjo pickin', prop usin', ridiculous stand-up routine delivering self since I was six years old. When I saw this book in Barnes and Noble (bless you, B and N) I almost passed out. I was dying to read it. Then John Sweeney got it for me for Christmas and I proceeded to attack him with hugs and thank yous for a record ten minutes.
It's no secret that Steve Martin is a wonderful, witty writer. He's written comedy acts, screenplays, novels, etc but he's never written about himself before. This isn't so much a general autobiography as it is insight into his comic genius, which is right up my alley. It takes you from his days as an amateur magician at Disney World to his hit stand-up career to why he walked away from it all. It's smart, funny, wonderful, and brilliant.
Nothing is more compelling to me than a breakdown of someone's rise to greatness. It gives me hope that maybe hard work and ambitions CAN result in dreams coming true.
There are, of course, other notable books that are out there: Water for Elephants, The Kite Runner, and all the books I read by Chuck Palahniuk. But these two books meant the most to ME and that's what reading is about, right? Right-oh.
What are your irrational fears?
Submitted by Dan Culhane.
- I read once that we will 3.5 spiders while we sleep in a lifetime. I'm scared that a spider is gonna bite me in my throat and I'll suffocate. I hate spiders.
- My professors have so much faith in me. I feel like a fraud....I'm not that smart, I just work hard. I'm terrified to fail at life. I'm waiting for the semester when I just snap and flunk everything, even acting.
- My mom has been threatening to give up on me for some time now and I'm nervous that one day she actually will.
- I have had the reaccuring dream for years that I give birth to Yoda. I don't want a Yoda baby. It might be cute for a couple of years but it would suck for the kid after that.
- I don't want to wake up one day and be alone, no one to call, no one to talk to, no one to love, friend or significant other. I can't help it that I need people. Maybe that's weak but I don't like being alone. With billions upon billions in this world, I know I'll never be alone....but the notion still makes me sad.
List five reasons (at least) why you are awesome.
Submitted by goobers18.
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I'm a procrastinating overachiever. It's an art.
- I will always be a five year old.
- I have gotten into heated arguments about Beowulf, Jean Grey's powers, Oscar Wilde, if it's relevant for Kermit to appear in a poem among Sesame Street characters, and what the correct lyrics to One Week are.
- I'm incapable of censuring what I say. Dr. Kunka hears the same things come out of my mouth as Katie Kelley. This may seem bad, but it's a surefire way to know that I'm being honest.
- My crazy fro. That alone should suffice.
Bada-BUMP!
