tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221590800939158661.post4548616434644035299..comments2023-06-06T11:08:11.832-04:00Comments on Daily Dose: A Dose of learnin' and stuff . . . now mit pictures!!!!Rachel E. Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02680726406269892054noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221590800939158661.post-5910540289525495612009-01-13T00:21:00.000-05:002009-01-13T00:21:00.000-05:00The call center--let's just call it the Ninth Circ...The call center--let's just call it the Ninth Circle of Hell--is open 363 days per year, ridiculously busy most of those days. So when we do close, due to weather or what have you, the days immediately following that are nightmarish. If we ever had to shut down for a week . . . I'd probably quit. Or wind up decking someone I work with/under and being escorted off the premises.<BR/><BR/>Hah, you can have all of NY State's snow. I hate the stuff, myself, and most of the people I know feel the same. Plus, we'll gladly take some of those beaches off your hands--no charge, no problem-o :D<BR/><BR/>I've never seen Fargo--astonishing, I know, but I haven't. Oddly enough, I've threatened to toss a lot of people into woodchippers. Not that I've ever, you know . . . followed through. . . .<BR/>::whistles::<BR/>::clears throat::<BR/><BR/>You only miss snowball fights because you haven't got hit with an earball, recently. Neither have I, but I have a long memory for that kind of pain. And for all the trouble I got into for beating the snot out of the last little bastard that earballed me.<BR/><BR/>Balled up dead leaves might work if there were some sort of viscous mud keeping them together. And it adds the element of "ew!" to the element of surprise. Plus, you can do it all year long :)<BR/><BR/>Imagine getting hit in the ear with <I>that</I>, though.<BR/><BR/>'Salem's Lot was one of SK's best, in my opinion. Not necessarily for the prose itself, which was about his usual, but for the tone, the very stark contrast between good and evil, saved and damned.<BR/><BR/>Believable characterization in the face implacable destruction. 'Salem's Lot was very . . . heh, realistic. In comparison to the dreamlike quality of Needful Things, which nonetheless had the same tone, that pervasive feeling of doom. That something much more important than a bunch of townspeople was gonna die. Or be saved.<BR/><BR/>Blarg, I'm an incoherent book reviewer. No one kills off an entire New England town like SK, I'll say that. Salem's Lot, Needful Things, and to a lesser extent It, are really about the deaths of small towns (Jerusalem's Lot, Castle Rock, Derry), ideals (notably poor Father Callahan's, whose story is picked up a little in the Dark Tower Series), and innocence (Susan's, Mark's, Mears's)--real or imagined. There's sad wrapped up in the scary, the sense that something good could be taken away forever, even if you're not quite sure what it is.<BR/><BR/>Would've liked to see some inhuman good balance out all the inhuman evil. In-the-flesh good, not just some hokey little cross that's powered by belief.<BR/><BR/>Overall, I'd give it 7 out of 10.<BR/><BR/>You?Rachel E. Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02680726406269892054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221590800939158661.post-84909077204683628242009-01-12T21:57:00.000-05:002009-01-12T21:57:00.000-05:00The mention of "wood chipper" instantly made me th...The mention of "wood chipper" instantly made me think of Fargo.<BR/><BR/>That is indeed a copious amount of snow. I don't think I've seen that amount up front and personal for about ten years. I can honestly say I don't miss it. Except for the snowball fights. There's no good substitute for them. Balled up dead leaves do not have the same aerodynamic coefficient at all.<BR/><BR/>PS - I notice you've read Salem's Lot. What did you think?FrodoSaveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15224011199139875343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221590800939158661.post-12205317659510559202009-01-12T21:10:00.000-05:002009-01-12T21:10:00.000-05:00Wow - look at all that snow. We haven't had a sing...Wow - look at all that snow. We haven't had a single flake in Virginia. I'm actually sort of jealous of you; if we got that amount of snow here, things would be shut down for a week - Winter Holiday!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com