SOUNDTRACK: TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA-“I Got a Cheese Log” (2004).
We bought the Trout Fishing in AMerica Christmas CD (Merry Fishes to All) this year. It arrived on the day before Christmas, so we didn’t get to listen to it too much). But I rather enjoyed the nonsense of this song–everybody else got exactly what they wanted for Christmas but “I got a cheese log.” It’s catchy (with piano, which is a bit unexpected for them) and the punchline of the chorus has a great wanh wanh sound.
But getting only a cheese log is enough to make anyone turn evil.
[READ: December 31, 2012] Vordak the Incomprehensible
Technically, according to the cover, the author of this book is Vordak the Incomprehensible, but I’m going by the copyright page.
C.’s school had a Scholastic book fair. I grabbed this book (with its large $2.50 sticker on the cover) figuring I could get him a surprise gift. Of course, the people who work the Scholastic Book Fair seem to have no idea that one might be trying to surreptitiously buy a book for the child one is with–imbeciles! brain-dead nincompoops!! (See the book is working, I feel more evil already). Anyhow, since C. saw it, I told him that he could “buy” it for me for Christmas. Which he rather liked. And so, I read it on the last day of 2012 (making sure he saw me read it).
This book is very funny and a lot of fun. I feel like it may be a year or two too old for him to really appreciate (like Wimpy Kid)–he would certainly laugh at most of the jokes, but I think it would be really really funny with a bit more, dare I say it, life experiences.
So the book is written by Vordak the Incomprehensible, an evil mastermind who is retiring. He is passing along every thing he knows to you, the reader, despite his utter lack of faith in your abilities. (more…)
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