the best book description i've ever read

From "Publisher's Weekly"

Eternal Pleasure, by Nina Bangs

In a series inaugural from Bangs ("One Bite Stand"), the Gods of the Night are incarnated for the first time in 65 million years, summoned to protect humanity from an all-encompassing evil that is coming in 2012, at the end of the Mayan calendar. While currently incarnated as deadly, handsome men, they have the ability to assume their prior forms- those of gigantic dinosaurs.

Bangs's skillful blend of vampirology, Mayan lore and extinct monoliths lays solid groundwork for the series- and almost makes it possible to wrap one's head around the idea of men with the souls of dinosaurs as sex objects.

A moment

I had a beautiful moment on my drive to work this morning. As I was waiting at a stand-still on Dhiyafa in the leftmost lane next to the grassy median, I noticed a bird very close to me. It was a small bird, brown and black with bright yellow rings around the eyes and a yellow beak and legs. It was quite a slick little bird… until it chirped, when it would puff up like a pufferfish with feathers fluffed up in all directions!

I watched him for a while, totally entranced, with my mind rather numbed by the previous night’s work on infrastructure asset operating models until 3am, with the window open in the mild morning heat, with the sun on my face, with Willie Nelson on the iPod.

I think that was one of the only times thattime stood still for a moment while the Dubai traffic stood still.