Sunday Morning Shh!

It's Sunday morning and I'm goofing off from work to blog quickly before returning my attention to my ::gag:: weekly report. This week they've added about half a million new stats to it and I really don't care to figure out what I should be doing this week. They're only going to change it next week so it's not like it matters.

I've cranked David Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans" since no one is home and Mayhem really digs it for some reason. Strange cat. I think she's deaf or slightly mad. In any case she really digs this song and is going to tell me about it if she ever wakes up enough to do more than twitch her tail to the beat. Honest, she really loves the song I think. Her twitching in her sleep increases whenever I play it. So she's either annoyed or ... well she just woke up, looked around, and walked off. There goes that theory.

Dammit.

"God is an American."

Finished "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman this week and I kind of digged it. I had been reading it off and on since before my trip started. My friend Mandy read it and beat my in finishing it by about a week. Okay, so I'm a slower reader than she is, but I really liked the book and didn't want to finish it. In comic terms it was a novel on the scale of "Crisis on Infinite Earths." Meaning there were a million characters and stories besides the main story and they gelled together nicely to provide an entertaining overall story. A lot of twists and turns along the way and it made comments on American society and fame that I hadn't thought about before.

Do we worship celebrities? Is fandom a form or worship? Is downloading someone's picture from the Internet and following their appearances a form of tribute? Are gods created simply from a fan lighting a candle for them on their birthdays? Furthermore, are saints some form of gods? In the Catholic faith there's only one god, but there's a million saints who we celebrate their birthdays or holy days. Is that another form of worship? Out there somewhere, is there a Britney Spears goddess just waiting to launch on the world? Let alone the Olson Twins? Oh dear god. Literally.

I hope this is one of the books that Leo actually read. He interviewed Gaiman on the air when it came out and said it was "Fantastic" and "he loved it" but then again, he says that about everything so god only knows. If Leo actually read or loved everything that he says he does he wouldn't have time to be on the air. Outch. Seriously, it's worth the read especially if you're a techtv level celebrity.

On that note, I'm outta here. Work calls ...

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