Wavery dissolve into dream sequence...

I'm reading Sarah Vowell's 'The Wordy Shipmates' about the Puritans of the early 1600's Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Unsurprisingly, life for the Puritans is harsh and strict. Reading this has made me wish rules were more strictly enforced in our day and age.

If only I could be Ye Olde Mayor - those guys knew how to punish...

Dear Diary - Our most fair and just Lord Mayor MC of Etcher was forced to punish me this day, with thirty righteous lashes of the whip, when I neglected to wring out and properly store the scrubby-sponge on the scrubby-sponge drying tray. Instead, I left the scrubby-sponge in the sink, wet, soapy, and with bits of last night's spaghetti still clinging to it.

I have learned well the error of my ways, that a dank scrubby-sponge with bits of spaghetti still clinging to it is without doubt Satan's playground, and the cavorting demons of bacterial plague within the scrubby-sponge is like unto a teeny Gomorrah.

Amen.

She's also Violet in 'The Incredibles'

I've been enjoying 'Assassination Vacation', where Sarah Vowell makes pilgrimages to sites relevant to the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley.

She is knowledgeable with her subject matter, delivers just enough detail and has a good sense of humor about these trips. She is well grounded by the friends she 'drags along' (though I would happily volunteer for this sort of historical tourism).

It's a fun and interesting read - I already have another Vowell book, 'The Wordy Shipmates' (about the early U.S. colonists) requested from the library. I'm looking forward to it!