
This morning i laughed aloud when i read this article
Then I revealed to a friend that i had once thrown a guy to the friend zone
because he had given me a copy of a Michael Crichton as a gift.
I noticed my own stack of books on my bedside table and had to laugh at my own hypocrisy.
Here is just a small sample,i say sample cause i think my bedside tables have become the holding station.
I'm obviously accumulating a small library of my own to open somewhere in my house in 2012.
#1
I bought this book at my new favorite LA book store. I didn't really need it,cause I'm pretty funny as it is and since nothing in my own job dictates that i need to write comedy.However, I bought it based on the when i opened it up I saw the following rule #67: Magic
Bad Magicians with odd names like "the Great Masterbato" doing incompetent magic can be a funny bit......
Little Known Fact: Harry Houdini,famed magician and escape artist,was also the inventor of the knock knock joke.
You see how could i not buy the book.Also there is a whole chapter on who is the greatest comedy character actor of all time:the list includes inspector clouseau,and well thats all they had.
Book 2: was a recommend by a friend: The World Without Us I can't remember the whole story behind this.It had something to do with me watching some Bravo special about global warming,it lead to conversations about Cormac McCarthy The Road and then me buying this book . Based on my friends description of a chapter about plastics and how it freaked him out.
#3 Don't Go Where I Can't Follow two things i like,comics and polaroids. I was getting both in this book. However, i was crying by the end cause it is a true story of him and his girlfriend on there last trip together before she dies.Sorry I gave away it away.I just don't want you to be depressed like i was, i care that's all.
#4 Words Without Borders I wont lie sometimes i buy books based on the cover art.This might be one of those books. That and because i liked the name Ahdaf Soueif,to me i have no idea if this is a male or female writer.So I bought the book.I think it was supposed to be a book i was going to read on vacation but never took the vacation.
#5 is not a book. For some reason i have a vhs copy of Boy Meets Girl.
I dont think you can get a copy of this on DVD and i have no idea why it sits at my bedside.If you ever get a chance to see the film .I highly recommend you do and if you dot like it, I wont hold it against you.
It's so fucking French,you either love it or hate it.
#6 ,#7,#8 Baby Farm Animals, Watch Me grow: Ape and The Book of Mean People.Those who know these books,know what I'm referring to here.
#9 My current read : Him Her Him Again and The End of Him
the blurbs on the book read:
"i laughed at it's audacity,and cried that i didnt write it" Steve Martin
"a very funny book" Bliss Broyard
I havn't laughed at it's audacity yet, I did chuckle at the line.
" He was a narcissist.I love narcissists..you don't really have to buoy them up"
I'm on page 34.
based on my sample books, i might have been dumped before the relationship even started..I'm doomed
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