It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.  By that I mean the dark gray sky with no visible sun.  It is 4PM and I have to turn on lights to make it through my house.  Days like today are why people in Wisconsin drink.  I found a list of the drunkest cities in America and Milwaukee was in the top 10 and Madison was in the top 25.  Oh well days like today make me want to read the classics.

With my background in Christianity and my training at a Lutheran college, I understand what the title of this book means HOWEVER, it gives me the creeps.  I always hated teaching about circumcision in my class.  I need to move on.

Well it does look like they are hugging or maybe that is what butt-stroking is.  If you remember butt-stroking from one of my previous blogs, I think this is it.

Why is the goat sticking his horn up the painter's butt and the book is entitled gay-time painting book?  Oh, alternative lifestyle coloring books for kids.  The old man in the background looks to be enjoying the goat and kid(hahahaha) a little too much.  Well when I was in grade school I hated art class and thought it was gay now here is my proof.

Oh it is.

You know it's true.  Why do teenage girls like this book?  I guess they relate too well with the main character WHO IS A GUY!!!!  It probably is the fact that it is one of the first books teenage girls read in high school that contains profanity, sex, and alcohol abuse and they are somehow affected.  It could also be that they are planning to become assassins.  Yes, Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon, was carrying this book when he was arrested and John Hinkley, who attempted to kill President Regan, was obsessed with this book.  Oh, teen angst!

Reading this book made it seem like WWI went on forever.  I recently watched the movie that is supposed to be a masterpiece that is based on this book.  It was horrible.  The movie made war look like a summer camp.  I guess movies in the 30s didn't want to rile the masses.  Maybe I have found my calling.  Remake this movie and make it dark and filled with gloom just like a Wisconsin November day.  God, I suck.

Yeah it was banned at my high school but not at my college.  I actually enjoyed this book but I think if I read it as a high schooler it would have given me a horrible vocabulary.  I am impressionable that way.

Yeah, definitely not the good old days.  This is an excellent read.

If I saw that headline I would have actually read this book instead of skipping straight to the Cliff Notes.  I just could not stand this book.  I am weird, yes, but this book just didn't do it for me.  Maybe if the were bootleggers looking for their swag and dames in flapper dresses then I might be interested.  Well at least it was better than The Scarlet Letter. 

Isn't suicide brought up in every Hemingway novel and hasn't every member of his family killed themselves?  Quick answer: yes...ok not everyone just his father, two siblings, and his granddaughter Margaux.

I just don't think this would be a good book to carry around in your front pocket....or would it?  Hmmm, it might help me land a girlfriend especially those in this area who seem to only want sex in relationships.  I need this book.

How clever!  I am off to watch more coverage of his ongoing pretrial.  It is so hypnotic.