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it's gonna be a cold one, too--supposed to snow up to 4 inches in the next 36 hours.

i am curious how much the liquor consumption increases around these part in the winter months.....

Confederacy of Dunces rocks--I need to remember to pepper my conversations with reference to my "pyloric valve" the mere name of which I find hysterical. Also, a good ending--upbeat without beeing cheesy. On the other hand, I also found this book rather sad after I found out that John Kennedy O'Toole was an overweight intellectual who lived with his mother and killed himself. It kinda took a bit of the funny out of Ignatius to think he was a vicioius self-parody of the author--for whom the real ending wasn't being rescued and leaving New Orleans, but rather self-loathing and suicide.

On that upbeat note... I absolutely recommend The Club Dumas, esp. if you're a Dumas fan. It's SO much better than that crappy movie they made out of it--in "The Ninth Gate" they took out the entire Dumas subplot. One of my favorite parts of the book is a sex scene told mostly through Battle of Waterloo metaphors.