Annoying people at dinner, books, poetry etc...

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Went to Zodiac tonight for dinner. Yay for super-messy chicken sandwich (for once I didn't order barbequeue barbeque- dammit, I can't type the word, I type "queue" too much at work.... - BARBECUE, dammit!!!! duck!) Spent a large chunk of the time with a couple of sappy lovebirds at the next table giving each other dental exams with their tongues and groping and whatnot. (If you've never been to Zodiac, well..."at the next table" means they're practically shoulder-to-shoulder with you.)

So these two were really irksome and I was seriously considering addressing them directly. I mean, for serious people, if you want to get it on, go somewhere that's not arm's distance from my dinner table.

In other news, I finished reading Scar Night last night (http://www.alanmcampbell.co.uk/) I recommend. The first third is kinda slow, but well-written. The rest of it though is quite great. I wait for the sequel this spring.

Now I need to decide what my fiction for the month of February will be...I'll probably try to make another effort to grab one of the books I own but never read.

But before I pick up another piece of fiction, dammit, I am going to finish Walden so I can move onto something else and make some progress on the CTP.

And again unrelated, I found a couple of poems by Keats to Apollo tonight. I will probably post them tomorrow.

Comments

[iapetus11.livejournal.com]

I read Scar Night a couple of months ago. Agree that it's a great book. Do wonder where they're going to go with it though. The ending was quite . . . big.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Yes, it definitely should be interesting to see what happens with Iron Angel.

By the way, I see that we have no common friends or communities and only a couple of extremely broad common interests, so no big deal, but I'm curious as to how you happened upon my journal.

[iapetus11.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry about that, should have introduced myself. I was flicking around on that new Explore thing that they've set up and your post was one of the random posts linked to on the first page.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

yah, think you and I could hang out if we didn't live half a country apart.

Speaking of which, whereabouts in Texas are you? There's a semi-decent chance that I'll be in Texas later this year sometime between October and December...but it would be in Dallas (I went to Southern Methodist University for a while, and a couple of my closest friends there and I all decided back in 1998 that we would get together again in 10 years...)

[dcnblus.livejournal.com]

perhaps it should be spelt "Barbie-queue" -- tho, that may have some different connotations in a truly sick, perverted and/or twisted way. I guess Ken would be first in queue?

[fuego.livejournal.com]

that's awful. Truly awful.