I wasn’t online much this weekend, time spent online was pretty much spent chatting and catching up on email so I never got a chance to write anything. I was in a crankie mood anyway, heh… saturday I spend like, the whole day reading, ’cause Myk needed to get work done here in the computer room so I wandered off so not to distract him. Anyway, I finished one book (and series, since it was the last book in the Malloreon series) and read another… it was a productive day %) I wrote up the reviews too…:

Guardians Of The West, King Of Murgos, Demon Lord Of
Karanda, Sorceress Of Darshiva, The Seeress Of Kell,
By David Eddings, 438 pages, 403 pages, 404 pages, 371 pages, and
374pages respectively

This series, “The Malloreon” tells of the quest of King Belgarion and a
close-knit group of friends and family. He is the Child of the Light and
is destined to confront Zandramas, the Child of the Dark, to decide the
fate of all the world. A fantasy tale complete with Kings, Queens,
Theives, Sorcery and Evil, these books take you on an extrordinary
journey. The story spans the whole world and vastly changes all the
characters involved, including a few “divine” changes… I was really
impressed with how well the characters were developed, when reading this
book I was helplessly lost in their world, I felt like I knew these
characters, a feeling that more than once stayed with me even after
putting the book down for the night. I would recommend this series to
any fantasy fan because to me, it seems to be one of those “staple”
series’ you just must read. Eddings is truly amazing!

Wilhelm Reich In Hell, By Robert Anton Wilson, 164 pages

This book is a play that depicts Wilhelm Reich, a radical psychologist
and philosopher in a circus themed court, trying to express his views
and prove his sanity. In 1957 his books were ceased by the US Government
and burned, because at the time his views were seen as dangerous to
society. A year later he died in prison. This play expresses his views
by making one see the fundamental, if not unavoidable, flaws in modern
society, or the “Emotional Plague”. Reich believed that all physical
sickness was linked to this Emotional Place, and could be cured with
treatment of the mind. He was deemed insane, and in this play he fights
that off, saying he is not the one who is dangerous and insane, the
governments are, the governments are “building the bombs” not him!
Although I don’t agree with everything Reich believed, I was truly
impressed with the way this play described his beliefs, it really gets
the reader (or audience) to see where he was coming from, what his
beliefs stemmed from, so one is able to play with the ideas he is
proposing… Mixed with humor and utter seriousness it keeps the reader
involved and focused. The introduction to the written play, 3
introductions really, are aimed at getting the reader of the play to
look at the play objectively, without the natural adversion to these
believes, or particular “glosses”. This was acheived very well I think.
In any event, this book made me think quite a bit about how I look at
myself and the world around me.

Sunday was much the same I’m afraid… although Myk did stop working in the evening so we could spend some time together %) Ended up watching some TV (tv is just an excuse to cuddle and do nothing you see…). We watched this movie called “Door To Door” .. I was sceptical, but it turned out to be a really touching movie, as far as made for tv movies go anyway. Then watched adult swim on the cartoon network… that’s always entertaining, hehe.

So today… I got up and after talking to a friend online this weekend I added his link to my links section, then realized that my links section was really big.. so I moved all the links of my friends to a separate page. I linked it all up to my site this afternoon… so wanna see some kewl sites made by my friends? Go here. I havent done much else today, playing around with some of Gimp’s perl scripts… chatting some… oh my friend Eric (the one in art school who is making a comic for my site) talked to me today, he wrote out a script finally for the first few weeks of the comic, yay! He sent it to me and it’s really funny… He’s trying to order a computer from dell today (dell’s ordering over the phone process sucks SO bad.. he’s spending over 3 grand and he’s kept on hold…). Well when he gets the computer he’s going to start work on the comic…so hopefully my site will have some comic by september… Art takes a long time and he wants to have a few weeks done before we start so if he slacks off a little he wont have to worry about his adoring public freaking out about missing a week, hehe.

I think it’s time for a rant %) Ok so I have this friend online, a very good friend, but he tends to be a pathological liar, a trait I have found among far too many people online. Now i’ve known this about him for quite some time… tried to overlook it but it just gets to be too much sometimes. I ended up completely pushing him away because I cant stand being lied to. I sorta started thinking about this when I was listening to some old Ani DiFranco mp3 that I have “As Is” … S’about loving someone just as they are, not because of lies they tell to better themselves. About having no delusions about how a person really is, and loving them in spite of that. I personally have flaws, tons of them, I could go on for days telling you what’s wrong with my personality.. and I am ready to accept the same sort of things in friends and family that I love because no one is perfect. So it really bothers me when people won’t admit to what they really are…even after I tell them they dont have to be anything superhuman for me to care about them. I’m not sure if it’s because they arent accepted so much in real life, or because it’s just so easy to lie online, or whether they are simply insecure about themselves… but I just wish for once that some of these people who lie would just stop and be themselves. I’ve talked to several people who come into #13thHour that no “RPG Character” could ever be as cool or interesting as a real person. That people don’t have to put on a false face to come online and “be cool” … it’s the most geniune people that are treasured and loved. Of course lying and impressing people could create a following, admirers… but when you log off at night you KNOW that isn’t really you they love and you hate yourself for it. I’m not saying something should be done about it, I’m just complaining that people are silly to think they are worthless and boring. And I’m ashamed that even this friend of mine still sees fit to lie to me, even after I’ve made all this clear to him *sigh*

Hmmm… I’m definately in a ranting mood %) But complaining too much in one day will put me in a bad mood so I’ll stop here… S’already a long entry.. I should go get some work done %)