In a dictionary


Dave likes to use his big vocabulary. Can you say "re-dac-shun". I knew you could.
What a way to kick off the holiday season! Thanks Dave.

Are posts like these an attempt to share misery? "Here listen to this it will make your eardrums bleed." or is this a commentary on our fascination with losers, failures, flops, and cringe-worthy human egotism?

Answer my maieutic challenge if you dare, Dave.

Escaping from The Austere Academy.

What can I say? I'm a sucker for good young-adult literature. If you haven't picked up the Series of Unfortunate Events books, I highly recommend them. I finished books 1-10 two years ago and decided to wait until the series was complete before proceeding further. Now that The End is here, I decided to jump back in. The first four are a bit episodic, so I decided to begin with The Austere Academy. This is the book where the Baudelaires first hear mention of the mysterious V. F. D.

You've got to have a rather dry sense of humor, appreciate a good pun, be ready to research references to classic literature that you might not have paid attention to at school, and block out a good chunk of time because once you start one of these unfortunate books, it's hard to stop until the unfortunate end.