Morning Radio "News"??

On my morning commute, I normal listen to npr, but this morning I was feeling a little drowsy, so when they started talking about research on sleep patterns I though maybe I would change the station, listen to some music, wake myself up. Switching over to The Beat (a local hip hop station) I land on a segment about celebrity rumors. Not my thing, but I figured it wouldn't make me spend my ride to work thinking about my bed & sleeping.

It spent time telling me how Khloe & Lamar had split up and how Khloe had moved on to a baseball played.

OK, not sure how this information is relevant to me in anyway...heck all I wanted was some upbeat music to wake me up during my morning commute...

Then suddenly I hear them saying how Khloe is a smart hoe & it's a new trend for hoe's to get smart & hook up w/ baseball players because they have guaranteed contracts (aka lots of money), and some woman (I don't know who) was smart for getting knocked up by a baseball player & getting him on lock down or whatever. I learnt that women are now all gold diggers, they just date these men for their money & apparently women should be proud of that fact....oh wait, sorry, us hoes should be proud & those hoes not in that position should aspire to be. 

What the hell am I listening to?!!!? Really...so in the less then five min I was on this station, women were referred to as hoe's. Any woman dating an athlete is a hoe. Basically I'm getting all women are hoes. Getting knocked up by a baseball player is smarter then any other athlete...and I just can't say how many things were wrong w/ that short segment I just listened to. 

I switched back to NPR. Listening to research on a sleep study beats the hell outta listening to a generalization about women = hoes & gold diggers. 

And I'm glad I did, the sleep segment was very interesting. 

And Another Thing….

I have been reading a lot lately, but thanks to a new job, I just haven’t had the time to post them. After spending 8-9 hrs a day typing and working on a computer, sometimes I would rather come home and read a book or watch TV then to spend more time on the computer, but not always :-). So I am finally playing catch up!

My best friend in the whole wide world sent me And Another Thing… on CD, which was GREAT, because I could listen to it on the way to and from work. It took me a little longer to finish it but after HOURS and DAYS (maybe a month) I finally finished!!

My friend gave it to me over Thanksgiving while I was home because she knew I would love it. It is the latest (or final…not really sure yet) installment of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy” book 6. (hahaha). My mum actually bough me The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy about 5-6 years ago. She said “You will love it” and I did. I cracked up from the first page to the last! I would call up my best friend and read her quotes and sections of the book and by the time I was done, she had to have it to.

And Another Thing… is written by Eoin Colfer, so when she said here read this, I was a little nervous. Since it wasn’t written by the genius Douglas Adams, I feared it wouldn’t be as good. And to be honest it wasn’t as good, but it wasn’t as bad as I fears. I did crack up as much, but Eoin Colfer worked hard to get into Adams mind and write the characters.

And Another Thing… picks up right where Mostly Harmless ended (HARMLESS, HARMLESS cried Arthur, “well I updated it” “to what” “Mostly Harmless” “MOSTLY HARMLESS”)

Side Note: I love how all of the book titles come from quotes the first book. Mostly Harmless, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish (that one has always cracked me up. I like dolphins)

Anyway, back to the plot – the book starts off with Arthur, Ford, Trillian & Random standing in Club Beta on an alternative Earth which is again about to be destroyed by the Vogon (because it seems the that is all the Vogon strive for in life). However right before this occurs, Zaphod appears (yet again) in the Heart of Gold to rescue them. Since Ford & Arthur had last seen Zaphod, he had somehow separated his two heads, and now Left Brain (or LB) from the Left Head is hooked up to the Heart of Gold, and is for some bizarre reason, rather intelligent.

But before they can make their escape in the heart of Cold, Ford accidentally freezes LB and they are trapped. Lucky for them Wowbagger, and immortal that has traveled around the universe insulting people saves them and takes them to Nano in exchange for Zaphod finding a way to kill. Back in the old days Zaphod had actually taken a colony of Earthlings over to Nano and they had created a new society.

On the way to Nano, Zaphod take off to strike a deal with Thor and Wowbagger falls in love with Trillion. Once on Nano, Zaphod convinces Hillman Hunter to make Thor their new God. Right before Wowbagger and Thor start go throw blows at each other, Wowbagger decided that he doesn’t want to die, because he is in love. But it is too late and the battle was on.

And in the mist of it all the Vogons have hunted Nano down on their mission to destroy all Earthings….

And I will stop there.

Read the book :-)

It is worth it. I give it a 7 out of 10 stars!

"Zaphod Beeblebrox says "YES" to Zaphod Beeblebrox"