[Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

[WhiteDragon]

Napa: "Hey Vegeta, what does the scanner say about the Dow Jones Industrial Index?"

Vegeta: "IT'S UNDER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAND!!!!"

[danc1005]

Napa: "Hey Vegeta, what does the scanner say about the Dow Jones Industrial Index?"

Vegeta: "IT'S UNDER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAND!!!!"

Win.

I mean...WHAT NINE THOUSAND?!

[chocobojoe]

[Riot]

Megaman 3 with lyrics!

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1832996

[lgolem]

Megaman 3 with lyrics!

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1832996

[Amp Divorax]

So we have the power level of the Dow Jones starting to match Nappa's, a legislative investigator determining that Sarah Palin violated State Ethics laws over Troopergate, an Obama fundraiser being convicted of fraud, OJ getting found guilty on all charges in the Las Vegas robbery 13 years to the day of being found not guilty of 2 counts of murder, and now Sarah Palin has a sex scandal to contend with!!!

[Riot]

[chocobojoe]

First dog picture is obviously not the same or even a similar dog.

[Riot]

First dog picture is obviously not the same or even a similar dog.

SUSPEND YOUR MIND. OPEN YOUR EYES OPEN YOUR MIND.

WAIT FOR IT.....

NOW!

[Merk]

It's back over nine thousand!

[Riot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHwhzJ6cbSA

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[Merk]

I enjoyed the post-defuse through-the-wall random bullshit kill that you got on de_nuke it was awfully loller

[Riot]

I enjoyed the post-defuse through-the-wall random bullshit kill that you got on de_nuke it was awfully loller

I like to shoot through walls, boxes, and smokes and randomly get headshots as you can see a few times throughout the movie. =)

[Fluffyumpkins]

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My review:

Bret E. Ellis's much touted blurb should be embarrassing to him, but more so to those who buy his books. To mention Danielewski's charade in the same sentence as Pynchon, Wallace, and Ballard shows only that Ellis hasn't read any of those other writers. King, who is indeed the King of Hacks, is a proper comparative I suppose.

In Infinite Jest Wallace used copious footnotes to help tell the story. In House of Leaves there is one footnote that helps tell the story, and that is the group of letters from Johnny Truant's institutionalized mother. Those letters are the best part of the book. The rest is typing. 99% of the footnotes can be ignored, and as you approach the end, you can pretty much skip every other paragraph to the finish. Fake scholarly works inserted into a rewriting of The Amityville Horror (or pick your haunted house story) do not make it scholarly. Lots of Latin and Greek references do not make it intellectual, and telling a story within a story does not make it literary when you don't care about the people involved. None of these characters is particularly endearing, and putting the words on the page in imitation of the geography the characters are experiencing is impressive only to those easily impressed. High school kids probably love this book. Or college business administration majors.

Anyone who wants a challenge or to read something experimental should try Robert Coover's The Public Burning or John Hawke's The Beetle Leg.

If this book changed your life, you need to get out more, go to a bookstore, then get in more.

There is nothing deep or deeply intellectual about this book, it is not a difficult read, unless you are unable to physically turn the book to read upsidedown or sideways, and there is certainly nothing to lead any well-read person to compare it to Wallace, Pynchon, or Ballard. THere was not one sentence in this book that made me laugh the way Wallace does, or marvel at its genius the way Pynchon does. As many have pointed out, it is simply dull. I think a lot of people probably love the fact that they can say they read a 700 page book that is actually about 100 pages long if all the nonsense is removed and there aren't 20 pages with only one sentence or one word on them.

Most of all it's dull. I usually toss aside a book this boring, but I wanted to be able to review it in its entirety. I don't know Danielewski personally, but as a writer he and Ellis are a good pair, all hype. Two literary big hats with absolutely no cattle.

[lgolem]

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Clearly needs more Pendulum