no, it's national baptism day

earlier this week i was going through my bag and decided to go through the reporter's notebooks that i have in there. i almost always try to have a reporter's notebook around me at all times because you never know when you're going to need to jot something down or refer back to something.

anyway. i also use these notebooks (or at least used to) to jot down quotes from tv shows, namely emily, richard, or paris quotes from gilmore girls. and arrested development. in one of my notebooks, i found these gems:

• Adolphe Menjou's cocaine dealer (emily, gilmore girls)
• False teeth speak false truths (mr. show)
• I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty (john waters)
• America needs the wisdom of Herman's Head now more than ever (comic book guy, the simpsons)
• Only prostitutes have two glasses of wine at lunch! (richard, gilmore girls)
• Come on, like you never pretended to be possessed by somebody's dead husband for a couple of laughs (sophia, golden girls)
• I'm from the South; flirting is part of my heritage (blanche, golden girls)
• Must be weird not having anyone cum on you (showgirls)
• How come Patrick Swayze is never dead when you need him? (?)
• What are we looking for, darling? A little lump of smoldering charcoal that says "fuck" every five minutes. (?)

i also found lists that i made of people i'd see on the bus on certain days. here's a sample day:

• white trash momma with menthols and mixed-race baby
• hip-hop Sam's worker
• beautiful black woman with curled dreads and map of bus route, highlighting where every stop is
• no indian guy today

on another bag note, i've been a bit of a book whore lately. usually i limit myself to reading about three books at the same time. i think i'm currently at six or so.

i'm slowly making my way through the full run of infinity, inc. and the second TPB of starman. i'm enjoying infinity because i like buying old comic books to see how some characters i like right now were being written. and by reading these old issues, i'm surprised nobody pegged obsidan as being gay back then. starman is a comic that i had always heard about and always meant to read. and now i am, and i really like it so far. i like that jack is a reluctant hero but actually has something to fight for and a legacy to live up to.

i'm about a quarter of the way through gregory maguire's mirror mirror. i read wicked and really liked it, but was skeptical of reading any of maguire's other books for the thought that maybe he's a one-trick pony. but i was wrong. mirror mirror is great, and i like how he's cast it into more of the real world by including the lucrezia and cesare borgia.

then there's caligula: divine carnage by stephen barber and jeremy reed. this book isn't that great. it's rife with proofing errors. i didn't realize until i was a couple of chapters in that the authors are british, which explained all the extra u's and the s's instead of z's and -re instead of -er. a lot of the book is hard for me to get my head around since it all sounds like speculation and not facts. like the author saying that caligula had a 12-inch cock and his favorite sex slave/gladiator was named "superbus" and had a 14-inch cock. firstly, why are british authors using inches? hello, metric system. secondly, i'm supposed to believe that caligula used to get fucked on a regular basis by a guy named superbus? i'm mostly still reading this ... i don't know why i'm still reading this.

then there's the devil in massachusetts by marion l. starkey. i've always wanted to know more about the salem witch trials. and salem was one of the places i wanted to vacate to during my vacation this year until i decided to get intimately close with my couch and note spend money. but yeah, the two chapters i've read so far are good.

then today i decided i wanted to re-read carrie by stephen king, which i haven't re-read in a while. i love carrie. and it's one of the only books that i actually love the movie for as well. last night i was talking with a couple of friends and we got to talking a little about carrie. and i remembered how i once had a dream to do a more accurate remake. this is because i love the way the book reads. it reads like a documentary. hell, the book starts off with an excerpt from a newspaper article, the the story gets broken up by these articles and interviews that take place years after the actual story and they work as foreshadowing.

and, of course, there's the audio books for david sedaris's books. i guess you'd call those aural re-reads.

so that's what, more than six including the audio books. man, i am book whore-ish. geez.