No big plans for this Sunday afternoon. Maybe make some time with my Wii for SSBB. I'm really just aiming to unlock the characters so I can bring the game out when I have company over. But "Subspace Emissary" takes friggin' forever. Plus it suffers from being a platformer, using the controls of a game which are intentionally loose. Brawl's controls are great for schizophrenic combat, not so hot at precise jumps.
I'm also reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions." Pretty heavy, darkly comic stuff so far. Not guessing that will change. Vonnegut reminds me of Mark Twain in some ways (and it's not just the crazy hair and 'stache). Speaking of Mark Twain, an excellent example of how bizarre divine justice looks from the outside is presented in his final story/novella, "The Mysterious Stranger." Said stranger is an angel with divine powers of creation and destruction, who uses them sometimes arbitrarily and generally against our reason. Case in point: to make a man happy, he makes him insane. Twain wrestled with conceptions of God a lot, I guess. Interesting that he and George MacDonald were acquainted and grew to be friendly.
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