Wednesday, April 25, 2007

I will repeatedly kick and punch your henchmen


Sorry for the lack of ... what do you call it?... Oh, yeah ... blogging in this space of late. Been busy and all that.

1. Twas an interesting essay from the Sunday Times mag about Amises pere et fils. I read Martin's memoir a few years ago, so there wasn't much new here to me, but it's an amusing read all the same. Martin comes off pretty well. By just about any standard, he had a pretty horrible childhood (with Kingsley always hammered and sleeping around) and it's astonishing that he not only didn't hate his father but in fact they got on pretty well (despite that fact, pointed out by Ian McEwan, that Kingsley thought Martin's books were crap.) In any case, the new Zachary Leader bio of Kingsley sounds like it might be worth adding to my already rather tall pile of reading.

2. Speaking of things to read, here's a list of the best 100 books of the last 25 years, according to bunch of British bookstore employees. I went through it about a week ago and counted 11 that I've read. Considering some of the crap on the list (DaVinci Code? Mitch Albom?), I don't feel very upset about this.

3. On the list but new to me until a few weeks ago was Glen David Gold's "Carter Beats the Devil", recommended here in a comment (to one of my posts about magic movies) by Monica. I finished it in the wee hours a few nights ago and it's really an amazingly good book. I read somewhere that Tom Cruise and his producing partners own the film rights--which I think is probably not a good sign, but who knows.

4. The trailer is out for the new Bourne movie. I love these movies. However, this is spot on: "I, Jason Bourne, will repeatedly kick and punch your henchmen. Then, as I've been known to in previous Bourne outings, I will give you a mocking phone call when I'm right outside your headquarters. You will respond with shock and dismay. If you do not, I will continue to call until you do."

5. Find our mob nickname here. Mine, embarrassingly, is "Cedar Teath." If I was a character on the Sopranos, I would have been killed after about 12 seconds.

6. Buzzy was six months old a few weeks ago. He's now a strapping 52 lbs., though still very cute and puppyish.

Posted by jwb at 10:23 AM   

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I can't believe I've beaten J-bear in a reading contest - I count 16 on this list.

I think the only reason is because it's such a crap list, maybe a little bit more highbrow than Oprah's Book Club. Though Neuromancer was a nice addition, and it's nice to see Prayer for Owen Meany get some props

Andy
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