to all of those who wronged me, i am i am a zombie

Right now my sister is watching a bunch of Veggie Tales clips on YouTube – all I can hear in the background is a Squash singing “I need to tell you somethin’, I don’t got a belly button.”

Best.Show.Ever.

To prove my point, I will force the following video upon your oculi (aka eyes.)

Ok, so I realise that was probably the worst vid I could have posted to prove how great Veggie Tales is – the douchey voice over doesnt really do it justice.So it looks like you’ll have to take my word for it. Which is ok, coz when I say something is good, it’s good. Every time. Except when it’s not.

But whatever.

Time for today’s rant debate. Well it’s not really even a debate. Since I’m writing this via blog, and you are reading it with your eyes. So unless you can contact me telepathically, this really isn’t a debate. It’s a statement of fact:

I hate the Kindle.

Seriously, it’s my worst nightmare. It’s bad enough that we’re buying more music off itunes instead of the real thing these days, now they bring out digital BOOKS??

Oh, this is it by the way: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015T963C/?tag=gocous-20&hvadid=4139607947&ref=pd_sl_7caym1p0w_b

Long live the tree-books. Came across this on Urban Dictionary today:

Tree-book

A book printed on dead trees, i.e. paper, as opposed to an e-book, which only exists electronically. Compare with snail mail.

Thomas: Hey, how do you like your new Kindle?
Andrew: I don’t know, I haven’t used it yet. I’m still trying to finish all the tree-books I’m reading.

Burn that Kindle, Andrew. Burn it now. If plastic or metal or whatever it’s made of can actually burn.

But seriously, can you imagine reading Tolstoy or Jane Austen via ‘e- book’? Might be a little hard to mentally transport yourself to the 1800′s when you are reading from a piece of plastic, which might I add, will probably destroy your eyesight over time. But it has an adjustable backlight, you say? So does Earth – it’s called shade.

No new book smell, no suspensful page turning, no sense of satisfaction when you finally finish reading – because it would be like reading one long email. There’s something awesome about having the hard copy on your shelf and being able to go, yep, I’ve read that.

This could be falling on very deaf ears here but I’d say about 18% of you  agree with me on this one. The world is always looking for ways to be lazier, to have to exert themselves less.  Hence Online Shopping. Hence escalators. Hence the Kindle.

Arghh.

I like this guy- Raymond Bianchi of “The Irascible Poet”  >>

“I certainly do not want all bookstores to go away in favor some electronic paper whatever the hell that is? Imagine not being able to browse a bookstore and find that right book?

Someone please tell me what we are to do?

I don’t want to read books- even bad ones on a computer screen. I want to sit with a book and coffee and read books that are objects not just pixels. It is bad enough that Google is stealing every book ever published but tell me why are they trying to kill the bookstore? Frankly I have had enough please go away Kindle and the rest of your satanic brethren….”

http://irasciblepoet.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-i-hate-amazon-kindle.html

He sounds like a cool guy, Raymond. Very smart. Very wise. Very SPOT ON!

Oh shoot, I just realised I missed “The Pacific” tonight – I promised my boyfriend I would watch it. Ahhh. Stupid Kindle occupying all of my thought-space and making me a bad girlfriend. I blame you.

But also me, just a little bit.

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~ by Pariss Alexandra on April 14, 2010.