A few points and a crappy year in review

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After re-reading a lot of the comments to my post about Narnia, I think I've come to a conclusion about why Lewis's proselytizing bothers me so much. I feel he panders to his audience, using the fantasy and a child's wish to escape to emotionally manipulate kids into his belief system. I don't like that. I'm not attacking the people who do, and I would never say someone shouldn't like these books, ok? Like them all you want.

WinterSilks. The best. Thanks adammaker and rowangolightly for recommending them. I'm not exactly toasty, but I'm not freezing. A definite improvement.

From themadblonde comes this advice (which I doctored just a tad for my own grammar and brevity issues): My worst obstacles are the ones I create.

I'm ready for metaquotes to be funny and/or interesting again.

Copy the first sentence of the first entry of each month for 2005. There's your year.

Nearly 22 inches of mail. jjgalahad mentions today is Nerdy Haiku Day. I've had a hard couple of months so far this year. My wrist is doing much better. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie: Good. I just shut my car door and turned the ignition when I saw a cat trotting along the edge of the road. Had a huge turnout at Aladdin last night. Fuck, what the hell happened to summer? I so rarely remember my dreams. shrijani links to a wonderful line-by-line commentary of Hollaback Girl. Point first: Thanks everyone who gushed over yesterday's icon. I don't know if my post yesterday set it off or what, but last night I was struck down with a bad case of the Blue Fugues.

Well that sucked.