By way of something different....

We're getting more snow this weekend. I swear I don't know how much more of this I can take.


But, since it looks like sometime after noon tomorrow I will be homebound I have stocked up on good reads. My failure though is that I completely finished one the them tonight. I should have waited...but I'm like that. I just finished Cormac McCarthy's "The Road". I wasn't sure if I wanted to read this one since it's pretty dark and fairly disheartening but, I have to admit, it was a good read. Made me think and really got me in the end. I recommend it. Tomorrow, while the snow flies, I shall be taking on "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts. This was recommended to me by Jessica, Alex's sister. I just read the blurb on the author and, crap, if this book is half as interesting as his life it will be well worth it. He was born in Australia, convicted for perpetrating several armed robberies, spent some years in prison, broke out, ended up in Bombay, India for ten years working as a smuggler, counterfeiter and gunrunner for a branch of the Bombay mafia, got caught, was sent back to prison to do the rest of his time plus some and wrote this book while he was in prison. Whew! Now that's a life! I have no idea what the book is about yet but it's big with lots of good words and it will be the perfect thing to curl up with protected from the snowy blast.

On a completely unrelated note...I was channel surfing tonight and came across this tele-evangelist named Pastor Melissa Scott. I listend for a while, not because I thought what she was saying was all that interesting, but because she just had this strange thing about her that was compelling to watch. Not like any evangelist I've ever heard...so, after a few minutes, I Google her name... turns out not only is she the Pastor of a ginormous congragation in Los Angeles, she is also the wife of a very eccentric (now deceased) evangelist named Gene Scott who was about 90 years old. She is 30 or so AND....she is also a porn star known as Barbi Bridges. How this all ties together or why I even find this so interesting is beyond me but, man, doesn't that sound like a made for Lifetime movies waiting to be made? Haha!