Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason

Awhile back I was talking about how awesome Mike Sack's book Our Bodies Our Junk was. The book that parodied the Our Bodies Ourselves manual that every self respecting liberal mother traumatized her child with back in the late 1970's/early 1980's.

Well Mike was nice enough to send me an advance copy of his upcoming book Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason and asked if I wouldn't mind talking about it if I liked it. Well I liked it, a lot.

A few of my favorite highlights...

* He lists all the things someone might want to know prior to making love to him, opening with my favorite line in the whole book

"First of all, welcome. Thank you for coming over. I’d appreciate it if you did not turn off the metronome, it’s there for a purpose." (And via email Mike verified that he does indeed use a metronome when making love, set to "slow".)

* He writes a chapter from the perspective of a die hard Tweeter on Twitter updating followers through every moment of his wedding and wedding night.

 "Walking down aisle. Stopping. Family and friends waiting for me to finish update. Patience, people! And . . . done."

 "Making love now. Check out this amazing article on the guy who invented wonton soup http://tinyurl.com/yftcny6"

 * He poses as an editor offering suggestions for Anne Frank's diary, helping her to revise it in order to make it more appealing to the masses.

I don't want to give away too much more. But the entire book conveys Mike's ability to poke fun of the absurdity of our lives in a way that is clever enough that we are left impressed and charming enough that we don't mind being mocked one bit. Witty, creative and recommended reading.

Snow Baby Snow!

We're waiting for the snow.

Chicago Snowstorm 1935

The epic 2011 Chicago snow, the historic snow, the storm that is supposed to contain thundersnow and is coming our way today!

In order to prepare for the blizzard I went shopping. And as I stood behind like minded pantry stockers bearing worried expressions, their carts filled with bottled water, batteries, bread and milk, I wondered...was I buying the appropriate supplies for this pending snowstorm? Hell yes I was!

My Snowstorm Shopping List
Beer
Frozen Pizzas
Cookie Dough
Us Magazine
Condoms
Glade Candle

Chicago Snowstorm 1967

When I hear snowstorm I think of two things; that scene in The Long Winter when Pa Ingalls has to make a snow tunnel to get from the house to the barn in order to milk the cows and how awesome it will be to have an excuse to sit on the couch in my pjs for 2 days thinking about how much it would have sucked to be Pa Ingalls.

Chicago Snowstorm 1979

I hope it snows so much my husband's is forced to stay home from work, the kids get a snow day so they can jump off the roof into moutainous piles of frosty goodness and I get to stay inside eating hot cheesy carbs, reading my gossip magazine and not getting pregnant by the light of my Clean Linen scented candle. Because a snowstorm equals guilt free sloth, all day snuggling and a great excuse to eat cookie dough right out of the tube.
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Update: Storm has hit and is feeling a little less cozy and a little more Stephen King's Storm Of The Century. Still eating the cookie dough though.