A few more steps

We went out for Bubble Tea last night, which I had never had before and of which I’m still highly skeptical. What kind of person decides that what tea really needs is mysterious balls of tapioca and sugar? Not a man who likes children or puppies, I’ll tell you that much.

It was a good time, though. I met one of her friends and we seemed to get on pretty well. Tonight: The Matrix 2. Total nerdgasm, and I’m not even one of the people who went completely nuts over the first one. I get sucked into hype so easily.

Just finished Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Man, what a cool book. A great little twist at the end, and a main character that is wonderfully defined and written. And, hey, it’s Canadian. Go read it.

Also currently reading Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, a graphic novel comic book thing. Truly amazing writing. Quote:

“The Revivals are thrown out of the Hostels during daylight hours. On to the streets. Many Revivals go into light catatonia on the streets. The tougher ones traditionally round them up and drag them back home at meal times.

Mary sticks to the alleyways, where the light and noise of the city is screened out a little. And she talks, to anyone who will listen. She tells how she was Revived; tells it in cold, quiet, terrible detail. She has a photographer’s eye. She’s made a still documentary of her new life, up in her chilled head.

And she tells stories of the past. Great rich warm human stories of Stephen Hawking mapping the universe from a wheelchair, of dancing with children in Zimbabwe dust and walking through Moscow snow with Mikhail Gorbachev, John Kennedy playing grab-ass in the White House, Nelson Mandela laughing at dirty jokes on a Jo’Burg street, a kid walking in front of a Chinese tank…

The stories that make us great.

Mary will live for maybe another century. But her story’s over.

Because you wouldn’t have it any other way.”

That’s from issue #8. This series seriously makes me wish I was a better writer. Oh well, I’m still going to submit to Epic — I need to get on that.

More tomorrow.