The world is going to hell in a hand basket, George W. is on the verge of being impeached (I hope, I hope, I hope) and the U.S. is being run into the ground by a bunch of crazed religious fanatics.
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Fear not faithful reader, all is not lost.
So today I discovered LibriVox and it may well have changed my life. The fine folks of LibriVox (all of them volunteers) are hard at work creating audio versions of books in the public domain. How cool is that?
So far I’ve listened to portions of Heart of Darkness and Treasure Island. I think I’m going to grab copies of The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Road to Oz next.
Oh, and did I mention that they have a podcast?
