and have a dust mite for a cute sidekick.

Coming in 2009 from Pixar...

Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life.

Of wait, already been done.

I just finished Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson. It doesn't even remotely compare to his Mars books, but it was a good enough read. (After not being able to make it 50 pages into Forty Signs of Rain, it was a relief to read something of his that made me want to finish the whole book.

Now I'm onto A Taste of Conquest which is very interesting and so far pretty well written.

Oh, and I'm also kind of reading The Brain-Dead Megaphone on the subway, which is terrific, but I think I might buy an audio version instead because my commute is getting too crowded these days to successfully hold a book.

I'm not a morning person. This morning, after going to bed at 2AM, and tossing and turning a while after that, I woke up about 10:30, looked at the clock, and rolled over to go back to sleep.

At which point the phone rang. One of my friends calling. Not to invite me to breakfast or anything, no...she wanted to rave about a book I'd just loaned her that she just finished, and how she was so sad it ended because the characters were living in her head and could she borrow the next one in the series, and now she was going to read the other one I loaned her. It was so cute! I forgave her for calling early. :)

How do you think this applies to the gay community? Men, not chicks? (Not asking you to represent all gay dudes, BTW; just asking for thoughts, cause I'm interested in this line of thought, Matt.)

I think we face issues more similar to women's regarding what qualities are considered attractive and what people comment on. Looks are definitely the principal method of exchange in the dating game rather than security or "good provider" status, and I feel a LOT more scrutiny/pressure about my body and weight than my straight friends indicate themselves facing. Though I wouldn't say it's exactly the same, as there are only certain contexts in which I run into objectification rather than encountering it all the time from a huge proportion of the population. (I'm not being objectified by heterosexual guys, after all.)

Well, and to run with that, Matt, I think there are certain segments of the gay community where it seems to be a sliding scale--EITHER you're hot and young and probably poor (twink) OR you're older and maybe not as hot (though you're still pressured to be hot) and you've got money...

Lesbians, OTOH, tend to be poor AND fugly. :)

I don't know... I've only seen people digging for money/trophy spouses in mass media, and other than the one rentboy of my acquaintance have never encountered anyone looking to be supported or seen anyone turned down based on income. Of course, people who are villa-on-the-Mediterranean rich are pretty thin on the ground in my area of the country, so maybe there's more of it going on in Washington.

I think there are certain segments of the gay community where it seems to be a sliding scale--EITHER you're hot and young and probably poor (twink) OR you're older and maybe not as hot (though you're still pressured to be hot) and you've got money...

I was going to say -- there are definitely segments of the straight community where this holds true.

So for my children's lit class, we are doing an author project. I'm doing mine on Mo Willems and making it like a Pigeon book. Hee! I've never had so much fun!