Paterno Noster
Nov. 15th, 2011 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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bethje's birthday today! Happy birthday!
I suppose I'd better say something about the Michael Ian Black show we attended on Friday, huh? It was at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, and there was an opener whose name I can't remember, but he had some good jokes. Since we were in Pennsylvania, Michael himself kept referencing the Penn State scandal.
I haven't really been keeping up on said scandal, but I think it's totally ridiculous that there were actually riots when Joe Paterno was fired. So what, you SUPPORT hushing up pedophilic rape? In a way, though, I'm not too surprised, because Penn State's obsession with football is really freaky. I actually applied there and got accepted, but after seeing the campus I wasn't really interested in going there. The whole football thing was just WAY too creepy for me. My brother did go to Penn State, though, and I don't think he's a particular fan of football.
What else can I mention? Well, I'm still working on cataloging the characters from apocryphal Oz books, which is generally a fun task. I'm currently working through the March Laumer books, and I'm not entirely sure whether I should include the Russian Magic Land characters or not. Laumer's usual approach was to present Magic Land as an alternate version of Oz that has some communication with the main one, but it's not always as neat as that makes it sound. For instance, Urfin Jus shows up in the main Oz from time to time.
Yesterday, I had to get the brakes on my car replaced, which cost me quite a bit of money. And that pretty much brings us up to the present. I haven't had a chance to watch the Simpsons episode from Sunday, as I was at work at the time, but I might have something to say about that in a later post.
bethje's birthday today! Happy birthday!I suppose I'd better say something about the Michael Ian Black show we attended on Friday, huh? It was at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, and there was an opener whose name I can't remember, but he had some good jokes. Since we were in Pennsylvania, Michael himself kept referencing the Penn State scandal.
I haven't really been keeping up on said scandal, but I think it's totally ridiculous that there were actually riots when Joe Paterno was fired. So what, you SUPPORT hushing up pedophilic rape? In a way, though, I'm not too surprised, because Penn State's obsession with football is really freaky. I actually applied there and got accepted, but after seeing the campus I wasn't really interested in going there. The whole football thing was just WAY too creepy for me. My brother did go to Penn State, though, and I don't think he's a particular fan of football.
What else can I mention? Well, I'm still working on cataloging the characters from apocryphal Oz books, which is generally a fun task. I'm currently working through the March Laumer books, and I'm not entirely sure whether I should include the Russian Magic Land characters or not. Laumer's usual approach was to present Magic Land as an alternate version of Oz that has some communication with the main one, but it's not always as neat as that makes it sound. For instance, Urfin Jus shows up in the main Oz from time to time.
Yesterday, I had to get the brakes on my car replaced, which cost me quite a bit of money. And that pretty much brings us up to the present. I haven't had a chance to watch the Simpsons episode from Sunday, as I was at work at the time, but I might have something to say about that in a later post.
