one good book

paul neilan is one of my favorite authors. if you get the chance, i highly recommend 'apathy and other small victories'. if reading anything over 4.5 pages not only makes you nauseous but also a little teary eyed in the fact that you havent completed an entire book since charlotte's web in grade school [where all you had to do was follow along, but somehow your new onset fascination of farting left you immobilized on the path to grasp interest in literature - you know who you are], then at least check out his blog.

here are a couple of my favorite quotes from paul:

"These Are Some Of The Things I Did At Work Last Week:
Invented a new game called Stand in Front of the Urinal. It's exactly what it sounds like. I guess it's more a test of endurance than a game. Bonus points if the same guy sees you standing there after he's already been in and out of the bathroom more than once, and for saying "What's up dude?" whenever someone's at the urinal beside you, and for whistling the entire theme song from MASH. Hero points for doing any of this with your pants pulled all the way down."

"I think our generation has been called to apathy just as our grandparents were called to defeat fascism and the baby boomers were called to get divorced and fuck around for most of their adult lives before bankrupting the entire goddamn country when they retire. But we have the chance to do something really special here. Imagine a world where people didn't care enough to go to war over anything. Where some guy gets up in the morning and says, "I know God wants me to kill the infidels and keep gay people from marrying each other, but I just don't give a shit. I'm going back to bed." It would be paradise on earth. This is our mission. I think we can make it happen, but I really don't care either way. And that's called hope."