Jon Stewart = Awesome

Jon Stewart, awesome is thy name. Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh? There are no appropriate names for you two other than idiot.

I Really Don't Know About Some People... Pt 2

Bear Grylls. We've met previously. However, you have pushed the Holy-Moly-Oh-No-He-Didn't factor to new heights. I seriously do not know what to do or think about you. I mean, I thought you were completely off your rocker when you drank elephant poo juice, but this new survival technique really takes the cake. Giving yourself an nasty sea water-filled enema on a raft in the Pacific ocean is too much. In fact, the "too much" line was crossed about 80 million miles back (especially when you factor in that the water was filled with bird droppings!!) and yet you continue to soldier on.

I realize that you're trying to teach people a lesson and you even referenced a family that survived a lost-at-sea situation by hydrating via enema. And it's great if that is what you need to do. But, seeing as how you are being followed by a camera on a separate raft (or large ship-like boat), how can you really claim that the enema was something you needed?

You can't. And really, I think you have a strong obsession with poo. You're either drinking poo juice or shooting poo-filled water up your arse.

Honestly, you could have just described the general mechanics of an at-sea enema instead of actually performing one on yourself. I don't know why you felt the urge to bare your buttocks and shoot poo-filled water up your arse in the middle of the ocean while a person filmed you. You baffle me. I can't begin to comprehend your ways, Bear.

Please refrain from doing things like this in the future. I don't want to mention anything Bear-related ever again.

Books Read in 2010

1. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
2. American On Purpose - Craig Ferguson
3. That Was Then... This Is Now - S.E. Hinton (YA Lit class choice)
4. Paper Towns - John Green (YA Lit class choice)
5. Weetzie Bat - Francesca Lia Block (YA Lit class requirement)
6. The Postmistress - Sarah Blake
7. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier (YA Lit class choice)
8. Catherine, Called Birdy - Karen Cushman (YA Lit class requirement
9. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway - Robert Cormier (YA Lit class choice)
10. Feed - M.T. Anderson (YA Lit class requirement)
11. Beyond the Chocolate War - Robert Cormier (YA Lit class choice)
12. I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee - Charles J. Shields (YA Lit class choice)
13. Tenderness - Robert Cormier (YA Lit class choice)
14. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (YA Lit class choice)
15. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson (YA Lit class requirement)
16. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie (YA Lit class requirement)
17. Gossip Girl: I Like It Like That - Cecily Von Ziegesar (YA Lit class choice)
18. Looking for Alaska - John Green (YA Lit class requirement)
19. In the Middle of the Night - Robert Cormier (YA Lit class choice)
20. We All Fall Down - Robert Cormier (YA Lit class choice)
21. An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming - Al Gore (YA Lit class choice)
22. The First Part Last - Angela Johnson (YA Lit class requirement)
23. I Am the Cheese - Robert Cormier (YA Lit class choice)
24. Sleeping Freshman Never Lie - David Lubar (YA Lit class requirement)
25. An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
26. Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green and David Levithan
27. Up in the Air - Walter Kirn
28. Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt - Beth Hoffman
29. Going Bovine - Libba Bray (Teen Book Award Committee selection)
30. Twenty Boy Summer - Sarah Ockler (Teen Book Award Committee selection)
31. Roar of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor (Children's Lit class requirement)
32. The Cay - Theodore Taylor (Children's Lit class requirement)
33. Joey Pigza Loses Control- Jack Gantos (Children's Lit class requirement)
34. Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater (Teen Book Award Committee selection)
35. Belle Prater's Boy - Ruth White (Children's Lit class requirement)
36. Hold Still - Nina LeCour (Teen Book Award Committee selection)
37. Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis (Children's Lit class requirement)
38. Eleven - Patricia Reilly Giff (Children's Lit class choice)
39. The Giver - Lois Lowry (Children's Lit class choice)
40. The Everafter - Amy Huntley (Teen Book Award Committee selection)
41. Anastasia Krupnik - Lois Lowry (Children's Lit class choice)
42. The Agony of Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Children's Lit class choice)
44. Bone #1, Out of Boneville - Jeff Smith (Children's Lit class choice)
45. If They Didn't Have Me - Ulf Nilssen (Children's Lit class choice)
46. Linger - Maggie Stiefvater
47. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
48. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
49. Life as We Knew It - Sarah Beth Pfeffer
50. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee >> Happy 50th Anniversary!
51. The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green - Joshua Braff
52. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
53. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
54. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
55. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
56. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
57. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
58. The Feast of Love - Charles Baxter
59. The Distant Hours - Kate Morton
60. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation - Lauren Willig
61. The Masque of the Black Tulip - Lauren Willig
62. The Deception of the Emerald Ring - Lauren Willig
63. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine - Lauren Willig
64. The Betrayal of the Blood Lily - Lauren Willig
65. The Mischief of the Mistletoe - Lauren Willig
66. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins

There are many books that I started and never finished. There are also MANY children's books (picture books) that I have read multiple times for storytimes this year. These half-finished and picture books are not included in this count.