A few quick things

I used to read a lot of books. For a while I was reading the classics . . . War and Peace, The Grapes of Wrath, On The Road, Catcher in the Rye. Then I went through my crime phase - lots of Elmore Leonard and James Ellroy. The last few years it's been more modern literature - Chuck Palahniuk, Brett Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, stuff like that. But lately, I've just been reading magazines. There's less words, and usually pictures too. I spent $25 yesterday on a subscription to "Esquire", mainly because Chuck Klosterman is a featured columnist. Also, I have a keen interest in how a $3,000 Italian suit could complete me as a person.

On the subject of Chuck, I finished re-reading "Killing Yourself to Live" for like the third time the other day. It is now far and away my favourite of his books, it seems to make more and more sense to me each time I read it.


Hmm, the Owen Wilson fiasco. To start off with, I kind of blame Kate Hudson. But more than that, I blame Goldie Hawn. Yes that's right, Goldie. As I have an important job with the Government, I was discussing the situation with a colleague yesterday afternoon. And she told me that Goldie has gone on record as saying that she doesn't think monogamy is normal. So you raise a daughter who gets married, leaves her husband for a fling with Owen, then dumps him to shack up with some D-list celebrity. Yeah, it's all fun and games, until someone tries to slash their wrists. So if the world misses out on "Wedding Crashers 2", I'm holding you responsible Ms Hawn.