Game: Worms 2 by Team 17, Micro Prose, 1999-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This computer game is fun and funny. Good solo or multi player or teams or anything. If you remember the early cannon games or apes launching explosive bananas at each other, this is the evolution of those. Cartoon worms try to blow each other up. When we were getting tired of using the caverns and islands, we started making our own terrains.

Book: Memoirs of a Sword Swallower by Daniel P. Mannix, 1950/1996, V/Search Publications, San Francisco.------------------------------------------------------------------------------

It's about a guy who joined a sideshow, ten-in-one, and learned how it works. First he became a fire-eater, then a sword swallower, then an escape artist, then a mentalist. Freak shows are expected to be Dark, but here it is just folks. It was interesting to get an inside view of the carnival life. Not too long, it give just the right amount of explanatory info. balanced by how it feels to live the life. You end up thinking you know how it must have been, and wishing it was still available.