Too Clever By Half

This time, i'll add some text. Y'see it appears that people are reading the Blog - it's no fackin coincidence, since i started putting up videos and gear and timely, influential commmentary on the state of the nation and gear .. not really.

Actually, today being Thursday was kind of a contstructive day. I worked at Parramatta, brought my mum a couple of DVD's for her 76th birthday, drank a whole double mootzah of coffee.

Last night i finished reading a book, Wildlife, a novel, a small novel, written by Richard Ford, an angular American whose cheek bones would indicate he should eat a few more dougnuts but novelists don't eat doughnuts.

I first read this small novel around 1990 when i was in the middle of a year of doing nothing, well not actually nothing, i had withdrawn from my degree at Uni and was doing two Philosophy half subjects ( ha, ha !! ) , working very part time with my brother at a carpark and reading books on the banks of the River Torrens and gear. I came across this book while wandering a little bent throught the rows of the Prospect Public library in Adelaide. At the time, i was in the habit of getting a little bent, driving over the quivering roads to the library and scanning the rows for books. Then i'd buy a freddo for something like 40 cents !!! and settle down to some self improvement through literature.

I had never heard of Ford. And until I met Damo many years later never came across anyone else who had.

It's a funnny experience reading a book 15 years apart. I've changed. Has the book ?

The three main characters are one famlily, the father ( a golf-pro who teaches at a small local club ), the son ( a 14 year old boy ) and the mother ( a mid 30's female of the 50's trying to deal with that burden ) who have moved to Montana in the mid west of the USA. At the time, i was struck by the precociousness of the son. Now, i'm struck by the parents. To lighten the tone, the boook really should've had a dog ! It is a small book but not a light one.

I am currently only reading small novels and books ( fiction and non-fiction ) about poker.

Shuffle up and deal !!