What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[Batman]

What a bloody strange book that was, I suppose I should have expected it with it being by Kafka but still.

Gregor basically wakes up one morning and finds he has transformed into a giant bug, his first concern isn't that he is a fucking bug but 'oh shit how am I going to get to work' he's quite a laid back dude to say the least, anyway his family turn on him and can't accept him, he spends all his time locked in his room and isn't allowed out, he spends his days crawling on the walls and ceiling until his family pretty much decide that they want him gone so they can get on with their lives.

It isn't so much a book about a giant bug but more a look at how close relatives opinions can change towards someone who is ill and needs constant care, almost as if the bug represents someone with dementia or alzheimer's, you know the person is in there but you have no way of reaching or communicating with them and the amount of care that they require is a constant source of stress.

Really good book and quite humorous in parts.

[El Kabong]

I'm reading 'Pure Dynamite' which is an autobiography of Tom Billington 'The Dynamite Kid' who was a great wrestler in the 1980's. It's interesting reading more so in that you get the back story, the behind the scenes dirt...it's not a cerebral read, but come on it was never going to be. Tom Billington was supposed to be one of the biggest assholes in all of wrestling, but so far (and I'm early on in the book) everything he's done seems understandable to a certain extent. He's pulled some tough pranks but mostly in retaliation, and he's only had fights or arguments with people who owed him money, reneged on promises, or attempted to ride his coattails. Apparently his cousin Davey Boy Smith was the bigger asshole in that he was big time riding on the coattails and he was very unappreciative of that too.

Dynamite was one of my favorite wrestlers when I was growing up as well which is why I'm reading the book a tiny bit of nostalgia for myself.

[Batman]

I've not had the chance to read anything in the last 2 weeks because of moving out, I'm hoping to get back to it now that I've got everything all sorted

[El Kabong]

Recently in the news here in the United States a The Accomack County Public Schools in Virginia have banned Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn' and Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird' because the books have racial slurs in them......




....fucking ridiculous it's as if the person/people who made the final call on those books had not read those books at all or knew anything about them

[Master]

I'm reading 'Pure Dynamite' which is an autobiography of Tom Billington 'The Dynamite Kid' who was a great wrestler in the 1980's. It's interesting reading more so in that you get the back story, the behind the scenes dirt...it's not a cerebral read, but come on it was never going to be. Tom Billington was supposed to be one of the biggest assholes in all of wrestling, but so far (and I'm early on in the book) everything he's done seems understandable to a certain extent. He's pulled some tough pranks but mostly in retaliation, and he's only had fights or arguments with people who owed him money, reneged on promises, or attempted to ride his coattails. Apparently his cousin Davey Boy Smith was the bigger asshole in that he was big time riding on the coattails and he was very unappreciative of that too.

Dynamite was one of my favorite wrestlers when I was growing up as well which is why I'm reading the book a tiny bit of nostalgia for myself.

I watched him as a kid on TV, did you watch British wrestling too?

[El Kabong]

I'm reading 'Pure Dynamite' which is an autobiography of Tom Billington 'The Dynamite Kid' who was a great wrestler in the 1980's. It's interesting reading more so in that you get the back story, the behind the scenes dirt...it's not a cerebral read, but come on it was never going to be. Tom Billington was supposed to be one of the biggest assholes in all of wrestling, but so far (and I'm early on in the book) everything he's done seems understandable to a certain extent. He's pulled some tough pranks but mostly in retaliation, and he's only had fights or arguments with people who owed him money, reneged on promises, or attempted to ride his coattails. Apparently his cousin Davey Boy Smith was the bigger asshole in that he was big time riding on the coattails and he was very unappreciative of that too.

Dynamite was one of my favorite wrestlers when I was growing up as well which is why I'm reading the book a tiny bit of nostalgia for myself.

I watched him as a kid on TV, did you watch British wrestling too?

I did not get that opportunity, but I enjoyed a lot of British wrestlers when they wrestled for WWF/WWE or WCW or MidSouth or NWA or WCCW. I can check out a lot of the older matches on YouTube though from the territories I hadn't seen before Stampede out of Calgary, Portland Wrestling, etc but the best of the best is the stuff from Japan in the 1980's.

William Regal, Fit Finlay, Lord Alfred Hayes, Dave Taylor, Chris Adams, and hell I just saw Rockstar Spud at an event the other week, funny little guy.

[Master]

British Bulldog was on the English wrestling circuit before he "bulked" up.

[El Kabong]

British Bulldog was on the English wrestling circuit before he "bulked" up.

Yeah he was Dynamite Kid's cousin and funnily enough Davey Boy asked DK for steroids and bugged him enough to where DK loaded up a syringe with milk and shot it into Davey's ass cheeks telling him it was diabonal or some such thing and I guess Davey got a little upset when the other wrestlers started "Moo-ing" at him

[El Kabong]

A slightly more cerebral book I have in my queue at this moment is a work that Andrew Breitbart did with Mark Ebner called 'Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in babylon---the case against celebrity' it is described as: a sometimes frightening, occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of meltdowns and flameouts, and the inexplicable behavior on the part of show business personalities.
Charting celebrities from rehab to retox, to jails, cults, institutions, near-death experiences and the Democratic Party, Hollywood, Interrupted takes readers on a surreal field trip into the amoral belly of the entertainment industry. Each chapter — covering topics including warped Hollywood child-rearing, bad medicine, hypocritical political maneuvering and the complicit media — delivers a meticulously researched, interview-infused, attitude heavy dispatch which analyzes and deconstructs the myths created by the celebrities themselves.

Celebrities somehow believe that it's their god-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. Hollywood, Interrupted illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell... And we're not going to take it any more.



As much as I'm not a tabloids reader, I do find it irksome when Hollywood elites, the Learjet/Limousine Liberals attempt to be standard bearers for American society. I also really despise their disdain for anyone not in/from LA or NYC....lots of those shitbags who "play pretend" for heaping amounts of cash aren't all that smart, and the propaganda newsreaders from the mainstream media who just assume they are aren't far behind.




Not sure what I will read after this though....I might do another history book.