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In another kidney punch for reputable publishing, Sarah Palin's new book is coming out in November. Yet another tacit admission that providing fodder for mockery is, in fact, more lucrative than providing actual intellectual content or social value. Just how pathetic can homo sapiens get before it becomes homo idiota?

"Harper Collins Thursday unveiled the cover art...[which] features a smiling Palin looking straight into the camera while donning a flag pin and flag-studded bracelet."

Heck, Sarah, why not go all the way and get a flag tattooed on your ass? Then we'd all of us REALLY know how much you love your real America and and all about that patriotism, there.

The publisher's summary says, "Written in her own refreshingly candid voice, America By Heart will include selections from classic and contemporary readings that have moved her-from the nation's founding documents to great speeches, sermons, letters, literature and poetry, biography, and even some of her favorite songs and movies."

"Refreshingly candid" presumably means she'll be making up new words left and right (well, mostly right, ha ha). It will be easy to distinguish her bits from the bits by others that have inspired her: the latter will (presumably) be grammatically correct and at least minimally coherent. No doubt Isaiah 49:16 will feature prominently.

Anyone want to take a stab at what her "favorite songs and movies" might be? The mind boggles. Although obviously since she doesn't read she must do SOMETHING with her free time...

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Not content with slogging through Churchill's magnum-opus (or as Baldrick would say, his magnificent octopus), The History of World War II in six doorstoppy volumes (plus vast numbers of appendices -- weighs almost as much as the man himself), I've also started re-reading Stephen King's seven-volume Dark Tower series. I really must be some kind of glutton for punishment. At least there's no possibility of getting the plots confused, what with the crazy evil dude who wants to destroy the world in one, and the crazy evil dude who wants...hmmm.

I'd forgotten that so little happens in The Gunslinger. However, things are hopping on the other front: Hitler has finally invaded Poland, the Royal Oak has been sunk in Scapa Flow, and Winston takes every opportunity to remind us that the valiant British will always rise up to defeat tyranny and fight for freedom no matter the cost (cue bugles and a jolly jack tar singing Heart of Oak). Bold words from a short fat man with a cigar.

Ooh! Must share this hilarious website I discovered recently: Judge a Book by its Cover, a collection of "truly hideous book covers" with humorous commentary. Fave so far is this one -- "... and somewhere, a letter "L" runs free ..." bwahahahaaaa!

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