Sunday, May 01, 2005

Referring URLs of the week

People Google- and Yahoo-searched these phrases and ended up at my site:
"my wife sucks in bars"
"smashing thumbs" (Again. Five times.)
"Paul Reiser spotted"
"Josh asshole"

Listening to: Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star
Reading: Borderlands 4 (This is an anthology of horror stories I'm reading after a crippling wave of nostalgia hit me at a book sale. I bought a handful of horror anthologies there. I was a horror fanatic between the ages of five and fourteen. I still love horror movies, but horror fiction hasn't really held up for me. I have no problems with adults making movies about vampires, werewolves, etc., but somehow a grown person writing about vampires seems kind of pathetic and embarrassing. I can completely understand a group of people getting together and saying, "Let's rig up this cool exploding head effect and film it. Yeah. That would be an excellent thing to do," but I have no such understanding for some writer sitting alone in front of a typewriter, pecking out words like, "Judy felt the familiar throbbing at her temples, signalling a return of the awesome but destructive psychic powers she had unleashed so far only on a handful of mice near the barn. This time, her father stood in her way. His head exploded like a ripe melon, blood and pulpy matter spewing from the hole where his face once had been. He'll never touch me again, Judy thought." Still, I had so much fun reading that stuff, and enough time has gone by, that I'm giving it another try. So far, I'm enjoying myself, but I wonder if I'll want to read the other ones I bought. I wish I could read this stuff with my thirteen-year-old head. If I had that head, though, I might still be listening to L.A. Guns, so I guess I'm okay where I am.)

1 comment:

Old Stallion said...

I have the same problem with gay porn. I mean, hey, it makes sense to film two guy going down on each other, but writing about it just seems kinda gay.