If you had to switch lives with a fictional character for a week, who would you choose?
I have no idea what ruling body would make me do this, but thanks for the opportunity and I’m assuming they are going to pay my airfare.
I’m going to be the fictional character from Al Stewart’s Year of the Cat.
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running Like a watercolor in the rain Don’t bother asking for explanations She’ll just tell you that she came
And so the adventure begins
Well morning comes and you’re still with her And the bus and the tourists are gone And you’ve thrown away your choice and lost your ticket So you have to stay on
Have you ever liked a villain more than the hero? Who and why?
When we were kids, our parents would take us to wrestling matches. That’s where I got my cultural baptism.We would watch King Curtis jump off the top rope, George, the Animal Steel , eat a turnbuckle and Andre the Giant be really gigantic.
I’d rather liked Georgie the Animal Steel. He was just crazy enough not to really care what people thought.
As George “the Animal” Steele, Myers portrayed a crazed heel, acting like a wild man in the ring, tearing up the turnbuckle with his teeth and using the stuffing as a weapon as well as sticking out his green tongue (an effect accomplished by eating green Cloretsbreath mints).[9] The Animal had a stooped posture and a hairless head, but a thick mat of fur on his back; wrestling broadcasters often speculated that The Animal was indeed “the missing link”. At best, The Animal could occasionally manage to utter a word or two during interviews with one of them usually being “Duh-da-dahh” or “You! You go!”
But the question remains what my parent were doing, letting me stay out so late. At least, roller derby was on a Sunday.
Does anyone actually need to read 1,088 pages, complete with footnotes? I’ll keep this posted just under 1088 pages I did —but if, like me, you cannot resist spending some time with one of the finest and most fragile intellects of our age, give this enormous tome a try. I recommend the e-book, both to save your wrists and your sanity, as you negotiate from footnote to text and back again.
I rather enjoyed this book and much of it still resonates with me. It didn’t seem more that long and that’s part of the journey..
