I've spent some time lately being entertained by McSweeney's. Two I've found particularly amusing are The Seduction of the World's Wildest Beasts: A How-To and Baseball Knowledge Will Not Help You Pick Up Girls (although with me it sure wouldn't hurt; I'm particularly fond of "I would trade Albert Pujols and Vladimir Guerrero for a date with you. Why are you laughing? That's a combined 70 home runs a year!").
For non-Internet reading, you should check out Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. She explores the first three presidential assassinations (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley) by going to various sites associated with them and their deaths. It's all terribly amusing. No, seriously.
Current song in my head:
"Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley
I'm sure that you know that Sarah Vowell was the voice of Violet in The Incredibles. She has a cute segment on the DVD talking about being Violet and being a writer in which she talks about Assassination Vacation. She was also on the Daily Show a few months back when the book came out and was awfully cute.
Posted by: paul at June 28, 2005 02:10 PMI did, in fact, see that. And I want the audio version of this book, as it has some cool people on it (including Mr. Stewart). I didn't realize that she talked about it on the DVD, though. That rocks!
Posted by: Barb at June 28, 2005 04:04 PM