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Donde esta el Sagueros?
Hvor er det Sheas?
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Who are the overlords?
ReplyDeleteWhy do they seek cacti?
Who/what are the others?
I await enrichment.
We are all overlords.
ReplyDeleteCacti are Boerne folk.
The Norwegian Sheas.
I got your enrichment right here.
what happened to my other post?
ReplyDeleteI won't stand for censorship GlaDOS
Battle Royale?
ReplyDeleteCryptic much?
ReplyDeleteI'm not cryptic, I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.
ReplyDeletesee... WS was cryptic. I am single letter on a blank page.
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ReplyDeleteWhyyyy am I a cactus?
ReplyDeleteEverybody has to have a local wildlife mascot. Since you don't have any wildlife in your hometown I nominated the Saguero.
ReplyDelete(kidding kidding I know there are lots of lizards and scorpions too.)
Hey E,
ReplyDeletewe like a lot of the same music and books! Daniel and I used to read Tom Robbins books simultaneously when we lived apart. It was hard though, because Daniel's a little slow.
I like tom robbins books because he wrote one about Uma thurman.
ReplyDeleteNo. I meant I like to read slowly to savor the delicious language.
Yeah, I noticed that, too! I was impressed to see that you like Regina Spektor- she's amaaaazing. And Tom Robbins is my most favorite author ever ever ever. Which of his did you like best? (I already know Daniel's answer- it's hard to top Uma, I'd imagine, although I've heard the movie was crap)
ReplyDeleteProbably Jitterbug Perfume.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever read anything by Octavia Butler?
I highly recommend Lilith's Brood. I like so many things...I have had to physically stop my self from going on a "read this" rampage.
What's your favorite Spektor song or album?
ReplyDeleteMine is Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers. If you don't have it I'll try to burn it for you, if you want.
I haven't read her, but I'll put it on my list (which is annoyingly long; I have this really irritating tendency to buy book after book after book and then just stick them on my shelf, so this summer I'm going to try to catch up).
ReplyDeleteAnd I go on "read this" rampages all the time. My roommate, who is a biochem major and therefore doesn't read all that much but really likes to, asked me to make a list of books for her to read this summer. If I don't control myself the list might end up being fourteen million books long.
I really, really, really like Begin to Hope and Soviet Kitsch, in terms of albums, and as for favorite songs...she's just got so many! It's hard to choose. I have 11:11, but haven't listened to it all the way through. I'll give it a listen sometime today, though.
email me your address so I can send you Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers. You might like it. It's not Daniels favorite though, and even Regina says it's not her favorite, so I guess I am outnumbered. It will be good to have a fourth opinion anyway. About the books, get control of it now or you could end up with a serious problem. I supposedly have a "problem," but I think that it isn't outrageous to collect books. And so what if I have 3-5 copies of some of my King books? They're all a little different. 1200lbs of books can be a little annoying though, when you move every year. What am I supposed to do, throw them away? Get real. They are forspecial.
ReplyDeleteWow, glad to know I'm not the only one. Is it genetic, maybe? I know Suzanne has a pretty impressive book collection.
ReplyDeleteDad always gets on my case about buying books. "It's called a library, wah wah wah, whatever." Drives me crazy. He just doesn't get the attachment one gets to books, I guess.
I wonder who is more likely to have an overlarge book collection, a super-hero or a super-villain?
ReplyDeleteSuper-villain, definitely. With the exception of Batman, super-heroes have never really struck me as being particularly well-read.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much agree, but what about:
ReplyDeletePeter Parker
Reed Richards
Charles Xavier
Where the hell have I been...discussing robbins and such...
ReplyDelete"I meant I like to read slowly to savor the delicious language."
That do be the reason I read Tom Robbins. I heard an interview recently with him on NPR radio. He says when he writes a book he has no idea what he is writing about, nor what the outcome will be. BUT, he says he writes one sentence at a time. And he doesn't move on to the next sentence until he is satisifed with the previous one. THAT is why I like reading his stuff. You actually get to read his sentences 2 or even 5 times to get the entire effect he was intending.
Jitterbug Perfume, or possibly Skinny Legs. Not sure which is my more better.
Ever notice how much of Skinny Legs came true on 9/11 even though he wrote it 11 years before? He even described the use of planes to destroy buildings in New York...scary shit.
Scott, you're the one who got me started reading Tom Robbins in the first place. I think I was all of about twelve, and Jitterbug Perfume shocked the hell outta me.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is still Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. No idea why, except maybe that I find a kindred spirit in the oh-so-paradoxical Switters (minus, of course, the pedophilia aspect).
Do either of you lit-tards ever read Margaret Atwood? Also, I already mentioned Octavia Butler who made an impression on me. Tom Robbins is sooooo February 7th, 2009. But I hear that retro is back so...
ReplyDeleteNegatory on Atwood, although I have heard of her. You have to keep in mind that for the next six years or so I'm not actually going to be allowed to pick the books I read (right now, for example, we're about to start The Wife of Martin Guerre for my 20th Century American Novel class, and then after that it's Lolita). In my free time I'm working on studying for the GRE Subject Test in English Literature, reading fun stuff like Paradise Lost and The Faerie Queene. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteFor fun, though, I'm working the list of the 1001 books you must read before you die (google it) because I'm a literature snob like that. I might take a break from cramming my brain full of dead boring people and give Butler/Atwood a shot this summer, though.
Have you read The Time Traveler's Wife? Suzanne recommended it to me...it's very, VERY good.
love regina spector. listening to conor oberst of late. has been a non-fiction winter for me so I don't have much to add other than I just bought an Atwood that is non-fiction..will let you know. Time Traveller is still a favorite.
ReplyDeleteConor Oberst?! Ugh. His new stuff is okay but I have yet to get past the utter crap that was Bright Eyes. When he sang he sounded a bit like a goat gagging on a spoon while being used as a show-room demonstration for Bobbleheads.
ReplyDeleteAhem...I assume that by literature snob you mean that you are in fact lit-tarded. I only point that out because you made it sound like Octavia Butler (A pinnacle of feminist literature) is in someway inferior to the boring dead people. She IS dead though, if that helps. Can I put in a *snap* here? I know it's old fashioned, but it does seem to fit the situation...
ReplyDeletePS. If you can't find time to read solely for pleasure then your grades are too good.
Nah, I'm sure she's in no way inferior to Milton/Spenser/whatnot. I can't stand those guys. Milton, for all intents and purposes, was potentially the worst writer in the history of literature, next to James Joyce, who arguably didn't even write in English. Snap away.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of, well, nothing we were talking about, have you read Zadie Smith?
Never even heard of her until now. I wikied her of course and she sounds kind of cool but...
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't really sound like there is/are any:
magic
hermaphroditic aliens
mustached assassin witches
quasi immortal gunslingers
goat gods
Chandrian-hunting redheads
resurrected Egyptians
schizophrenic amputees
possibly robotic investigators
Precrime
Chicki Nobs
Terran monitors
Tabula Rasa
I could think of more but...
See the problem really is... that without school pushing me to broaden my knowledge base, I read only for pleasure. And when you read only for pleasure you have to be convinced ahead of time that you are going to love it. (especially if you have this problem where you can't stop reading a book you've started even if you hate it.) There is no entity pushing me to read a certain book, and hence no moment of sweet surprise when I begin to like the book that was supposed to be a chore.
Don't feel too sad for me though. I am very content in my biblio-hedonistic ways. So what if my brain doesn't get any bigger; I only use it to read anyway. That Time Travelers Wife book sounds promising. Is there magic?
Neg. But the main character is a librarian who has a genetic condition which causes him to spontaneously travel through time. It's funny and heartfelt and all the stuff a good book should be.
ReplyDeleteDon't read it if you don't like crying, though. It apparently made Bill Shea sob like a baby.
I think the last book I read containing any of the aforementioned elements was...okay, well, the last Harry Potter book. That series, unfortunately, is one I'll never be able to read again, thanks to the death of a certain character who I'm convinced was killed solely to piss me off.
You should try more of the aforementioned stuff. That is, if your profs ever let you. ;P
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