Texas Oddities…

How’s this for random sacreligious humour.

When we were driving down to Galveston a few weekends ago we came across a huge billboard advertising a nudie bar with an attached sex emporium/gift shop up ahead. In the middle of nowhere mind you. I figured no big thing, it’s probably because some holier than thou tightwad doesn’t want the ladies shakin’ their maracas on his front lawn (which by the way, I myself would be perfectly happy with). We drive on and about 500 feet before the property line for the bar, we see another billboard that had us laughing our asses off.

Forsake the Porn & Be Reborn
– Jesus

We both were laughing our asses off at the concept of this being something that the J-man really said and was quoted on. I mean seriously. Was Jesus just hanging down at the local newstand in ancient Jerusalem watching people buy up all the ink on papyrus sketches of nubile young nazerene women gyrating with palm fronds to the beat of the Roman tribune’s marching drums that he immediately jumped up onto his pulpit and screamed the above epitaph? Somehow I think not. Though the more that I think about it, perhaps that was a deleted scene from the Life of Brian.

Food for thought.

Books are friends, not food!

Okay not as catchy as an Aussie shark saying fish are friends, not food, but I had to try. And now… by the power of greyskull a spamtastic little list of bookseseses for you filthly little hobbitseseseses!

What have I read?
These are the 25 most popular scifi books at What Should I Read Next?

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
Neuromancer – William Gibson
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
Dune – Frank Herbert
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand – Stephen King
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett

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Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Emma – Jane Austen
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Candide – Voltaire, Norman Cameron
Complete Tales and Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
King Lear – William Shakespeare
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White, Garth Williams
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Sabriel – Garth Nix
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
Abhorsen – Garth Nix
Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle, Keith Scaife
The Witches – Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Time Quartet – Madeleine L’Engle
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A Little Princess: The Story of Sara Crewe – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robin Lawrie
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L.Frank Baum

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