The perfect place to raise a family ...

[rivkat]

Of genetically engineered killer bats.

Sorry, but that tag line for a new SciFi Channel movie just got me. I mean, I'm a person who went to see Species because the tag line was something like, "For ten thousand years, humans have been at the top of the food chain.

Everything changes."

David Sedaris's Me Talk Pretty One Day meets the "can it make Rivka laugh out loud in the gym, in front of people who look at her funny" test. But man, is his family fucked up. The essay on family pets was simultaneously hilarious and heart-wrenching, as so much love can be.

There, that might justify this entry somewhat.

Comments

[logovo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love David Sedaris and that is one of my favorite essays of his. Was it his reading of it that made you lol?

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

No, I read it in print. I listen to music at the gym -- I've never been too good at books on tape, and that way I can do three things at once, an otherwise impossible task for me. I'm the stereotypical girl who can't both walk and chew gum at the same time.

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[logovo.livejournal.com]

I'm not the greatest fan of books on tape either, but his delivery is so deadpan it *really* is great. Just in case you're curious and would like to hear it I have the mp3 and could zip and e-mai it to you.

bye :)