My mom sent me these pics in an email and I thought they were pretty neat (some of the images are a little small, so if you can’t tell, pretty much everything in these landscapes is made from food):
Archive for March 24th, 2008
24
Mar
playing with your food
First ‘real’ day of my break, a day I could NOT feel guilty about spending hours reading peoples’ blogs and checking out weird websites, and answering emails, and predictably, there’s nothing to absorb me for hours on end. One blog that myspace isn’t letting me view the pictures from, a couple messages on DA. That’s about it.
Murphy’s law.
Something.
I need more caffeine.
I had to work yesterday (suck!) and then we went to Briggs’ parents’ house for piggie dinner.
I just finished reading “Go Ask Alice”, an apparently famous and controversial book, supposedly based upon the diary of a real girl (though later evidence suggests that the ‘editor’ wrote the whole thing) living in the late 60′s early 70′s who gets doesed with LSD at a party and then spirals down into a dark world of drug use and unsafe sex.
What I mostly got out of the book was not ‘don’t do drugs’ it was ‘don’t have friends who are jerks that can’t respect your decision to stop using.’ Also, that Coos Bay, OR, tends to be rather rainy.
Now I am reading ‘Extras’, the fourth book in the ‘Uglies/Pretties/Specials’ series.
As always, the series makes some less-than-subtle social commentary — this time around, freed from their empty-headed pretty partying, what has become big is (basically) podcasting. The better known a person is, the more credits they receive to purchase what they want, and one of the best ways to get noticed is to put out interesting stories on the nets and have people read them. Our protagonist is a 15 year old nothing named Aya living in the aftermath of Tally Youngblood’s revolution, trying to figure out how to get noticed, when she falls in with a group of girls pulling extreme stunts, and, inexplicably, seeming to go out of their way NOT to have anyone no about it, EVER. Of course, if Aya were to kick the story of these girls, that would earn her INSTANT face cred…
Anyway, pretty good so far — following in the style of the three previous books, and regarding teens living in a future that the people in charge are still trying to get right…I am wondering if any of the characters from earlier in the series will be showing up at all, however. So far, Tally has been mentioned, but that’s been the extent of it.
Now, time for more caffeine.
Oh! Wait!
Afore mentioned image of Nova and Mercury curled up on the sofa together!
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