Neanderpundit

At Dibney. I sat on a boat and had a long conversation with a British gentleman about books, and he reccomended ths book to me, he central character, Hieronymous Bosch (the LA detective, not the artist) is well written and compelling. I haven’t read a murder mystery this good in a very long time, and it’s a bit annoying this guy was out there and I have missed him all this time.

Now, my tastes vary. As will yours. While I know that Dan Brown’s work is mostly crap, I still enjoy reading it, as formulaic and predictable as it is. This guy is (at least from his first book) nothing like that. I’m reading his second, “black ice” right now. I’ll let you know howit goes. Meanwhile, stick your head in at the library and read Black Echo. If you like murder mysteries, I think you’ll like this one.

To the left, in the blogroll, click (when you’re finished reading this) “hog on ice“. the link actually goes to his old domain, “little tiny lies“. He paid for that domain, and I’m here to make sure he gets every single visitor he can. Soon, the domain will expire and I’ll re-blogroll him, but in the meantime, use it up while it lasts. Not fair that his money should be wasted. Get’em while they’re hot! If you want to be boring and go directly to his site, click here Or just go directly to the post about making fart noises on marvin’s belly.

Suck, and they suck more than the vacuum of intergalactic space. All of it, at once. Face it, you can’t get there from here, wherever there is. And it’s all due to the wonderful planning of road construction companies and the municipalities that employ them.

It now takes me, on average, 4.5 hours, roundtrip. To go 110 miles, 55 each way. Not a day goes by that I do not have the overwhelming urge to grab ten or twelve construction workers, tie them to my trailer hitch, and drag them through traffic at high speed, paying particular attention to the areas rife with potholes that are NOT BEING REPAIRED while PERFECTLY GOOD SECtIONS OF ROAD ARE DESTROYED AND REBUILT.

I know its not their fault entirely, it is the brainchild of morons who schedule these projects lest their budgets be cut.

Cut their budgets. Fuck them. Fuck them with a ben-gay soaked saguaro cactus. Fuck them with a flaming porcupine. Fuck the morons who decided that the 83rd street toll plaza (which has JUST BEEN FINISHED IN THE LAST YEAR) needs to be torn apart six lanes wide for two miles in each direction so that they can put in a high speed Ipass. There is nobody on planet earth I despise more than the morons responsible for the 5.3 million dollar congestion relief plan put in place by the Illinois Tollway System,. and I have to say, right now, I have thoughts unbecoming a christian. Shit, I have thoughts unbecoming a Nazi; i keep thinking thoughts of protracted disembowling and deep frying epithelial nerves with boiling safflower oil to make a sort of “blooming idiot” (like a “blooming onion” only you do it to an idiot)who only requires the right sauce to be unspeakably toothsome. I bet that would really, really hurt, and I hope I can do the whole epithelium without causing death.

Shit, was that out loud? Sorry. Hey, a guy has to have his dreams.