Puppy Power!

Wasn't Easter nice? I had a nice Easter visiting Talya and seeing her new puppy. He is difficult to dislike, because he's just so cute. Well, when he's not eating things he shouldn't be or biting you. He's teething, so he enjoys chomping on wrists and fingers. In fact, he seems to just go for your hand instead of the toy you're holding. But, I don't want to paint a negative picture. He is soft and small and often cuddly. And since Talya does not have the technology, here he is:
And a profile shot:
As you can see in the picture, he isn't showing much interest. There's a slight worry that he might be deaf, but we have no way of knowing for sure. Puppies are supposed to be a distracted group. He does have one continued interest though: his own penis. Yes, it seems every day holds new surprises as his snout and crotch mingle again and again.

Disturbing images. Anyway, during the course of the weekend we also got to see V for Vendetta and Thank You For Smoking, both of which were phenomenal. And, I think both are even worth the price of a movie ticket. What's difficult is that you can't really know what will be worth it until you see it, except for, like, Spider-man 3 or something.

In other big news, I got a job at a tea house where I'll serve teas of all kinds. Yesterday I tried a sample of a tea called "Gunpowder," which just begs to be ingested. I start on Monday and I really like the people I'm working for (www.argotea.com) so far.

Last night I saw Jonathan Safran Foer as promised and he was nice and funny and sort of what you'd expect, I suppose. Since my copy of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close was in Ohio, I drew a copy on a piece of paper. No, I'm serious. I traced my hand with red marker and filled it in, wrote the name on it, and then surrounded it with yellow. He signed it in an unidentifiable scribble that anyone could argue was fake. Oh well. One thing I'll tell you is that book signings kind of suck, at least at borders. To get a seat you had to have a copy of the book and all of the employees save the leader were in some kind of "I don't know how to answer anything" land. And, the only people who ask questions are the people you'd expect. Like the people who were always right in Poly-Sci class. But, it was JSF, whose first book I now want to read because he was cool.

And Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation (which always makes me want to sing "Teenage Wasteland") will be at the same store in three weeks, so I might go to that, and have my book with me. He's promoting a new book, called "Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food" which seems to be a young adult version of FFN, which is kinda dumb.