View From the Bushes

For reasons which are better left unsaid I started reading The Da Vinci Code. I must admit it had an extremely gripping opening, but as I get farther along it's started to lose some of it's steam. As an example I was talking to a friend of mine today who got her masters degree in feminist critical theory, and I mentioned jokingly that I was reading The Da Vinci Code that great feminist book and after her shocked gasp she mentioned precisely the point that I was going to make, that Dan Brown (the author) tried much too hard to make it into a feminist book. Still I'm not done yet so maybe this assessment is premature.

He also takes great pains to tie everything into some pagan mystical root. At first it was charming, but around the time he talked about the deep pagan roots of iambic pentameter I started to lose my "suspension of disbelief", which I must confess was already wounded. In any case lest I mislead you I am enjoying the book and I'm sure I'll finish it today, it's just not quite as superlative as I had hoped.

I mentioned a week or so ago that I had more GenCon pictures. These particular ones were taken by a guy I meet while at the con so I take no responsibility for the content or the astonishingly high percentage of females in the pictures. In any case here you go.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross