Of Gems and Chunky Bacon

I swear, I’ll return to a regularly scheduled blogging! Maybe with tales of woe, tales of “d’oh!”, tales of “whoa!”, and tales of dough. Gluten-free, worry not.

But not before mentioning how, like, OMG, holy cow, I’m reading a strangely compelling book.

It’s a picture book with a deeper hue of the child-like humor found in the epic series Captain Underpants. Take burnt sienna. Now dunk it back in your local toaster, set to 11. Crisp-eh-licious.

It’s a story that folds in The Isle of Dr. Moreau with cartoon foxes. One part starmonkey, five parts chunky bacon.

While I wait for an Amazon-sourced and Cicero-serious book in dead-tree form, with content surely as dry as a witch’s tit, I bathe in the mobile bath of the Google-sourced and painfully playful online book, content as moist and dripping as… the outside of this Dunkin’ Donuts small iced coffee. Cream and sugar. OK, sure, and one blueberry cake donut, please. Just this once. Don’t judge. Thank you. Nah, keep the change. No, thank YOU.

Have you ever been inspired to create, but it involves learning a new skill? Like a computer programming language? Like Ruby? Where you hope to have fun while you’re at it?

Take a look:

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
tenderly written and illustrated by why the lucky stiff

…It’s in a book. A Reading Rainbow