Finally got my new 24″ Samsung monitor today from Overclockers. Apart from coming with an American style plug, it’s excellent – a real upgrade from the tiny (in comparison) 19″ Samsung that I was using before.

Just got “God Hates Us All” through the mail. The book is from the hit Showtime TV show “Californication” and is written by Hank Moody: the show’s main protagonist.

A wry literary masterpiece, God Hates Us All is a coming-of-age tale for the apathetic generation. Hank Moody’s self-loathing yet darkly likeable narrator is a college drop-out-turned-accidental-drug-dealer enveloped in a world of contradictions. His boss — a bong-hitting, dreadlocked Pontiff figure — runs a remarkably organized and ingenious illegal trade patronized by, among others, a sweater-set-wearing Upper East Sider, a Wall Street hotshot, and a wannabe rock star with a hard-to-resist model girlfriend. The lonely narrator yearns for more than the tenuous but intimate thread he shares with his clients. To escape his mother’s desperate expectations, his father’s endless disappointments, and his certifiably insane ex-girlfriend, he moves to the city’s mecca of ambitious slackers — the Chelsea Hotel — where the pursuit of lust (and the rock star’s girlfriend) sends him on a series of well-intentioned misadventures that lead him right back where he started. Told in a unique and subtle voice, God Hates Us All is ironic, optimistic, and unforgettable.

I’m going to read it over the next few days (as it’s only around 200 pages long) and give a quick review soon after!