Wow, so clearly this has become an abandoned blog. In part because neither Neb nor I have anything interesting to say longer than a twitter-length sentence! (Which I tried to hook into this blog via the Twitter Tools plugin, but it’s lacking features — the post titles are awkward and only one twitter account can be linked. But we’ll see.) Actually, a couple of weeks ago, my excuse would have been that we’re busy but then I had spring break last week and I wouldn’t call myself busy unless doing fun stuff or vegetating + eating counts as busy.

In any case, another one of the illegitimate and yet sadly true reasons we’ve been busy is this iPhone Kindle app which has killed my productivity. I’ve already ranted and raved about it in person to pretty much everyone I know - basically, it’s a free application that lets you read books on your iPhone; said books you can buy from Amazon but there are a bunch that are free. I’ve now read 3 novels in fairly short order (this + the 2 sequels), and Neb has read Outliers (pictured above) and he’s reading a novel now, but now I am forbidding myself from starting another until I get some actual work done. But oh goodness, I did so enjoy all my time on public transportation during when I was reading…

[”omg what the?!”]

Fury and Frost are disapproving rabbits, but of course, we all knew that — especially Frost. Unfortunately, Frost’s disapproval is much more misunderstood, because she hides her disapproving mouth.

[”hello, handsome”]

Woot!

I’m waiting for a script to finish so I can get out of here, but before I forget I wanted to post about the podcast I heard this morning. It was a rebroadcast of a NOW interview with Vonnegut from October 1, 2005. I’m pretty ignorant about Vonnegut. I read Slaughterhouse 5 I think, but too quickly and without much thought and a long time ago. I also read A Man Without a Country soon after it came out because I ran across it in the library and checked it out on a whim. I thought it was brilliant but I don’t remember details about it now (look, I don’t have much disk!)

Anyway, I was really struck by a lot of it, and I wanted to mention a bit here because I do believe I agree:

KURT VONNEGUT: … Look, we’re awful animals. We can start with that. You know, it’s a whole human experiment, if that’s what we are.

DAVID BRANCACCIO: That heart– at heart, we’re awful?

KURT VONNEGUT: Look, we after two World Wars and the holocaust and the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and after the Roman games and after the Spanish Inquisition and after burning witches, the public– shouldn’t we call it off? I mean, we are a disease and should be ashamed of ourselves.

And so, yeah, I think we ought to stop reproducing. But since we’re not going to do that, I think the planet’s immune system is trying to get rid of us.

DAVID BRANCACCIO: The planet is sort of trying to shed us as if we are some sort of toxin.

KURT VONNEGUT: Look, I’ll tell you. It’s one thing that no cabinet had ever had, is a Secretary Of The Future. And there are no plans at all for my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

DAVID BRANCACCIO: That’s a great idea. In other words a Cabinet post–

KURT VONNEGUT: Well, it’s too late! Look, the game is over! The game is over. We’ve killed the planet, the life support system. And, and it’s so damaged that there’s no recovery from that. And we’re very soon going to run out of petroleum which powered everything that’s modern. Razzmatazz about America. And, and it was very shallow people who imagined that we could keep this up indefinitely.

Also nice usage of the word razzmatazz. Neb and I use that word often, with respect to rabbits.

I shall have to read some more Vonnegut, actually read it. Maybe find out more about Humanism.

Neb and I have been listening to David Sedaris’ Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (hmm and he’s coming to CA in November). It’s quite enjoyable.

Anyway, I just thought I’d mention that surfing around about him, I found that his sister Amy is obsessed with rabbits:

A bunny is a blessing. Try this blessing, as Amy and Sarah Jessica Parker do. On the first day of each month, when you awake, before you say anything else, let the first words from your lips be, Rabbit Rabbit. This is said to bring you good fortune throughout the month. The late Gilda Radner believed in it too, but she said Bunny Bunny. Gilda authored a book with that title.

Rabbit rabbit!