April 26, 2005

The Rabbit Candidate

As it happens, yesterday was a fabulous day. Bright sunshine, warm, perfect day to blare music and drive down the road a lot, which is what I ended up doing.

This was prefaced by an excellent weekend wherein the parental types left for the coast, and I had the house to myself for three days, which as you can imagine was just fine by me.

I also watched the remade Manchurian Candidate, which was exceedingly cool in a very creepy way. Kind of reminded me of Fight Club, in a way. I shall now need to acquire and watch the original.

I also read all the way through Watership Down, which although it contained no actual rabbits in space*, was pretty cool. Would've been even better had I read it when I was 10, but oh well. I want to read The Mouse and the Motorcycle again now. And The Indian in the Cupboard. The Indian in the Cupboard was about the coolest book ever. I've got all sorts of neat plastic stuff I'd like to make real.

Obviously all the work I've been doing in children's check-in at the library has been bringing back memories of my long-repressed childhood, or something. Hopefully it doesn't turn out that I was brainwashed by squirrel aliens during the Gulf War or something.

* - For those of you who went "What the HELL?" which I assume is most of you, consider two things. 1) Spacefaring water-carrying ships in the Battletech universe; 2) Blackhawk Down. Probably they're saving the animal tactical combat book for after the squirrel alien takeover, though.

Posted by Dwip at April 26, 2005 12:36 PM
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See? I know something about rabbits!

You asked what's next. Answer: Redwall. Redwall would also have been better when you were 10 (I read about a dozen of those books in sixth grade), but you'll still like them. (Because if you don't, small forrest animals will no longer ally with you. Muahahaha.)

Posted by: Regina at April 26, 2005 6:17 PM

Watership Down will be forever ruined with the new Blackhawk Down done entirely with rabbits that is wedged in my head.

And Redwall would be a logical next step.

And go snag an Arthur C. Clarke short story anthology too. No rabbits, but a lot of stories about the oppression of beings without opposable thumbs by those that have them.

Posted by: Tim at April 30, 2005 10:10 AM