I'm reading Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography right now. Only thirty-three pages in and I've already laughed out loud several times (apparently one British term for masturbation is "milking the maggot"). The ghostwriter captures Ozzy's wacky, addled voice perfectly. (Of course, one must keep in mind Ozzy's addlepation comes from his prodigious decades of drinking and drugging, which would have killed anyone else.) It's in diametric opposition to Keith Richards' autobiography, which was so plodding, long-winded, ponderous and pretentious that I eventually gave up on it. I toyed with buying that book for a while; I'm glad I didn't.

In honor of this, here's one of my favorite Ozzy Osbourne videos: "Shot In the Dark," which also features a very young Dweezil Zappa.



I know Ozzy's had quite the life. After the bad string of young adult books I've struggled through lately, I need something light and funny. This seems to fit the bill.

I'm reading Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography right now. Only thirty-three pages in and I've already laughed out loud several times (apparently one British term for masturbation is "milking the maggot"). The ghostwriter captures Ozzy's wacky, addled voice perfectly. (Of course, one must keep in mind Ozzy's addlepation comes from his prodigious decades of drinking and drugging, which would have killed anyone else.) It's in diametric opposition to Keith Richards' autobiography, which was so plodding, long-winded, ponderous and pretentious that I eventually gave up on it. I toyed with buying that book for a while; I'm glad I didn't. 

 

In honor of this, here's one of my favorite Ozzy Osbourne videos: "Shot In the Dark," which also features a very young Dweezil Zappa.

 

 

I know Ozzy's had quite the life. After the bad string of young adult books I've struggled through lately, I need something light and funny. This seems to fit the bill.  


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There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. ~Emily Dickinson

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. ~Neil Gaiman

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in. ~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~Stephen King

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ~Mark Twain

I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. ~Walter Tevis

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. ~George R.R. Martin

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