Today's Quote:  "What's that watermelon doing there?"  ---  Buckaroo Bonzai

Synonym alliteration du jour: RATIONAL, reasonable

Well, I started writing all about the fabulous rain storm we just had but my daughter was reading over my shoulder and mocking me so, yeah.  I deleted that part.  But I'll admit:  I am a push-over for thunder.  I do love wild rain.  There is something primal and appealing about lightning.  I itch to run out and dance in the weather, even as I type!  I might have made a good Neanderthal . . . . well except for the hunting-gathering thing.  And the lack of indoor plumbing.  And no ice cream.  Or chocolate.  Or good shoes.  Then there's the little problem of going all extinct.

*Sigh*

Since today is my last blog of the week I thought I'd talk about The Outsiders.  I mean, I was just dissed by my teenager and it's a classic teenaged story from the seventies. 

S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders forty years ago !?!  My daughter read it in school this year, so I re-read.  It's just as good as it was the first time, and the language didn't feel dated like it sometimes does in older books.  (Try reading Moby Dick.  OMG)  One thing pulled me from the story though, and that was the way the author couldn't allow the characters to swear.  Now-adays, those boys would just let it rip!