How fitting is it that Maren Stefanie Genow, who made me promise to read books of no substance for the summer is arriving in New York later today, the very day in which I finished reading my first such reading endeavor. Yes, this morning, I finished Angels and Demons. As I previously predicted, I like it. I mean, it’s an action movie in book form. Who wouldn’t love that? And it involves religious conspiracies and secret societies. That’s the stuff dreams are made of.
Reading this book has made me want to read lots and lots more about secret socieites, like the FreeMasons, but then it also makes me not want to because of one very paranoid fear that I have:
Namely that these secret organizations that you read about do exist and thay they monitor your book purchases (throught your credit cards) and they then monitor your email and BLOG posts and thus they know when you are onto them and they come after you and you will likely find yourself in a Turkish prison or jumping out of a helicopter to save your life only no one will belive what you say because they will have somehow messed with your credibility and you will end up like those people who claim they have been abducted by aliens who no one believes and everyone thinks is crazy!
I think the lesson here is that I will take some time to really think it out before I dive head first into some conspiracy theory research.
In only slightly related news (aliens) I watched Independance Day over the weekend. Yes, Dad, it was on and I was hungover and needed the distraction and I watched it. And, let’s be honest, loved it. As I do everytime that I watch it. I mean, I am Steve Genow’s daughter, how could I not. It also got me to thinking that I should memorize the speech that Bill Pullman gives right before they go off to fight the aliens in case a similar situation arises and I might need a similarly inspirational speech to rally the troops to fight off whatever we are fighting-Freemasons, aliens, monsters from the deep, you name it.
And in case you weren’t quite sure before, I think this post has proven that I think some really strange things when reading books and watching movies. Perhaps this is why I’m such a big reader, I mean, with thoughts like these rolling around during a read, who could possibly put down a book?
