Pray and Grow Rich (Unabridged) - Cather... Well written and interesting. Don't let the word prayer and the Biblical references decisive you. It's about affirmations, meditation and law off attraction and many other new age/ spiritual concepts. The only problem with this book is that the author is a minister so she twisted the names of these concepts in a way that they sound religious, like prayer of affirmation instead of affirmation and so on. Therefor readers who follow other ideologies or have other believes might , rightfully, feel that they are not her selected audience. Still this problem can be easily solved by ignoring the religious stuff, and thinking of God as source energy or the universe or all that is.

I'd like to believe that all my favourite funny things - Python, KITH, Mr. Show, and numerous others - transcend time and place, and are objectively funny. I know that's not true, as tons of people don't like Python, for example. But I'd like to believe. And I'd like to believe it about all great humourous art, not just serious art. But I honestly don't know if it's true or not. And when I read something like this, I lean more toward the side that humour isn't transcendent; rather it is contextual and without context you may not be able to appreciate it.

And I believe that about The Ponder Heart because I find it spectacularly unfunny. I understand that it is supposed to be humourous, and I understand what type of humour it is, and I understand that there is a certain craft behind it, but I think I chuckled once, maybe twice.

Now I know this is a style of humour that I don't normally like, but I'd like to think that I can at least appreciate the craft. But I can't help but just find the whole thing frustrating and infuriating. I'd like to think that if there was more to this than just a goofy little story about a lovable old rich gentleman, I'd have something to appreciate. But I just don't see it.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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LONDON, Ontario (The Skwib) — The web is still reeling from the revelation that a blogger has been pondering things instead of musing about them.

 

“Yeah, I’ve spent a lot of time musing, in fact, the tagline from my blog used to be ‘muted musings from Jeff’s tasty trumpet” — clever, eh? But . . . I don’t know, it just seemed like it was time to, you know, start pondering instead,” Jeffrey Trumpeter told The Skwib in an early morning phone interview.

 

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