thebitterguy

A) The iCBC app. It will have a variety of things on it, like schedules, and maybe links to podcasts, etc. But the most important thing it will have is it will sync up with your GPS and tell you what frequencies CBC 1 & CBC 2 are on. Dammit. Because there's nowt as frustrating as traveling cross country and losing Cross Country Checkup!

B) iLendstuff app. iLendstuff will have three pages. One page will list stuff you think someone will like (I think Mike would like to read my Wil Wheaton book) and another page will list stuff you've lent someone (I've lent Elizabeth Y the Last Man vol 8 & 9) and another will list stuff you've borrowed (I have borrowed Mike's copy of Bioshock).

Because there's nowt worse than the day after getting together with a friend and going "Wait, what did I think they'd like to borrow?"

So, I finished Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking last night.

I was expecting a harrowing tale of addiction, maybe about how her coke habit and her film-making collided. Some stuff on her marriage (specifically to Paul Simon) and a bit on her diagnosis with Bipolar and her treatment.

You... You KIND of get that.

The problem with this book is.. Wow, there ain't much here. It's 156 pages. That's a short book. It features generous use of fonts and margins. Look, I figured out that trick in high school. The best part of it is the cover. But if you're reading it for stuff about Star Wars, you'll be dissapointed.

Fisher has a great way with words. I loved reading her telling of her parents marriage and its breakup. I can't get enough talk about Eddie Fisher's penis. And the stuff about going to New York to work in a broadway show with her mum is good.

But if someone is selling "how I was drugged out of my skull while making some small independant movies in the late '70s/early '80s you might have seen", they should give us more than just a reiteration of George Lucas' directing style ("Faster! More intense!") and adventures in being an action figure/PEZ dispenser.

If the combination of drug abuse and ECT therapy have rendered her unable to remember the period (a defense she offers up herself in the early parts of the book), that's something I'd like to hear more about.

That's just my fanboyism being a dick, I guess. What there is of the book does an ok job covering her life so far, and I'm glad to know which Paul Simon songs refer to her (Graceland, Allergies and Hearts and Bones).

Fisher is very, very funny. The bit about waking up in bed with a gay, drug using Republican? Who among us, right? I wish now she'd done a Q&A at FanExpo last year, or that her stage show had come to town.

In the end, yeah, I'm glad to have gotten this through the MPL, but it was an enjoyable read for a distracted evening.

*I present a link to pics of Carrie Fisher from when she was making Empire to make up for the omission.

• 11:02 Thank God it's starting to warm up. Last night was not a fun night to drive in. #
• 14:55 Just read Pride of Baghdad at the library. To compare it to a similar book, it makes WE3 look like Beatrix Potter. #

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An interesting tune, but...



Isn't that a picture of California they show when they say Florida?

• 19:21 Making Winterlicious reservations. Booked at Flow and Lobby so far. I love any menu where we have to google recipies or ingredients. #
• 20:14 Uh oh. I am totally marking out for the Legion appearance on Smallville. Cynical blackheartedness, why hast thou forsaken me? #

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• 09:50 The ides of January were on Tuesday. Darn Romans. #

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• 21:00 Being Erica, about a thirty-something who's coming to regret choices in her life. This is how POWs must have felt watching Hogan's Heroes. #
• 21:02 Hey, Dan Redican. Good to see one of the Frantics on tv. Oh, time travel shrink is laying down ground rules. It's the anti-Quantum Leap. #

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I Aten't Dead.

Mostly for my own reference, but terminal_pariah posted this link to the Google Blog Converte recently. I guess it would be useful if anyone's still trying to do conversions or extractions.

Many have called me mad for loving this, but if it's wrong for Johnny Cash to promote a bank's ATMs that were named after him, I don't want to be right.



Torontoist had an article about an entire Youtube channel dedicated to electronic nostalgia from around the province called RetrOntario. It's delightful.