I’ve spent a good portion of my day reading the New York Times, McSweeny’s, Salon, and my usual brain brunch of stuff on disinfo.com. While typing a reply to an e-mail about some of my favorite non-fiction books, I stumbled on this little gem from amazon.com and was intrigued. After browsing and clicking around a bit, I ended up kind of accidentally starting one of those wish lists.
Yeah I know, I’m feeling as ill about it as you are. The idea of anyone knowing my account name and whatever being able to take a gander at the types of books I like is unsettling big brother type stuff to me. But after “vanity googling” and thinking long and hard about what my library card shows about my reading habits (not to mention my borrowing and debt collecting habits) – I’ll share my literary appetites with the rest of the cyberworld as well. Hey, if agent Smith (I think that’s the guy that’s assigned to me for the moment – agent Waxler is on vacation from what I hear) is doing his job correctly, he already knows that I’m radiating excitement regarding the upcoming release of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows and I’ve still got that Hunter S. Thompson book on my shelf. If he’s really keen maybe he’ll realize that the only reason why I’m going to end up rereading Cosmic Trigger right now is because I lost my copy of the Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy and can’t afford to purchase E-mail to the Universe.
Sadly, that damned website doesn’t sell booze – so looks like this year the birthday pixie will have to trudge down to the liquor store like any other year, and Santa is going to have to squeeze Blizten and the gang into that tiny ass parking lot Binny’s has next Christmas Eve. Every April I usually get a set of plain 3X5 notecards that have the words “best wishes from the team” written on them in envelopes postmarked from Quanaco. This year, I hope agents Smith, Waxler, Albertson, Gerard, Newman, and the rest use their vast network of intelligence gathering and send me a copy of Failed States when it comes out. That or they can at least leave a bottle of Origin on my front porch for me. They’re only 5.99 at Jewel.
