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My birthday.. yay...

Today in class we started reading the Maps To Anywhere by Bernard Cooper.  We looked over the first half of the book and talked about a few of the sections.  I looked at Capiche?, the title caught my attention.  I read it think about a mobster movie.  But it turned out it wasn't that kind of story.  It was a tale about an adventure in Italy.  although in the end the whole story turned out to be a lie, which I found kind of funny because why the lie, although it was a good one.

Someone mentioned Atlantis, which asked an interesting question about where did barber poles originate from.  And, talked of the relationship of the author and his barber and how he and this man were closer than him and his father.  We also look at How To Draw, about how his art teacher said his art wasn't art because it didn't meet her standards of what art should be.  I also found this one funny because isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder, how can one person defame someones art or compare someone's art to another.  That hardly seems fair.

Then we read sleeping with my father, which talked about the author's father.  This talked about his father's marriage to his mother and his job during the author's boyhood.  How his father, a lawyer, would cheat on his mother with the secretary.  Then after the divorce, his religious second wife and his third wife who seemed to always be in heat.  Then the author talks about how sad his father seemed to be later in life and how they began to form a real father son relationship because his father was distant and busy at work during his childhood.