I know I owe you good people an explanation, and one will come soon. Until then, enjoy this nice tidbit.
I sit on the same floor with the marketing team, which despite the inane questions I overhear from time to time ("Is FiOS TV IPTV?" "Won't TiVo be dead in 6 months anyway?" "What exactly does the Slingbox do?") does have its perks. Namely, free copies of magazines in which they advertise.
So in reading through Sync Magazine, I see "Jeremy Roenick's Top Ten: Stuff that helped the L.A. Kings All-Star center survive the NHL's 10-month lockout." Number 6? "Books: I read three books during the lockout, including Velocity by Dean Koontz. It's the most I've read since high school."
Now, look, Jeremy. Everyone gets you play hockey, and don't need to have a lot of depth in other areas, particularly the scholarly arts. You don't need to point out that lack of depth to us, since it makes you look silly. Moreover, don't brag about reading a book every 13 weeks, particularly pulp, as though it makes you look smarter. It doesn't. Dean Koontz doesn't even read Dean Koontz. He bangs his elbows on a keyboard with his eyes shut.
Feel free to use the comments to suggest books Jeremy ought to read, or failing that, the pulpy guilty pleasures you've been perusing lately.
Posted by Bogg at October 13, 2005 09:18 AM | TrackBackWhile it's not particularly pulpy, I am just about done with _Death and the Sun_, which follows one of Spain's more prominent matadors through a season of work. It's pretty interesting, and I think the discussion of goring and making 600+ mile trips overnight by car in between fights would give a new perspective for considering the recent NHL labor ugliness.
Forget books for a minute ... that Slingbox thing is both beyond badass and scares the absolute crap out of me because I have no idea how it works. Well, I sort of do, but I can't actually put the pieces together.
What's sad is that I actually could use it.
Posted by: Cooch at October 22, 2005 03:55 AM