Cardamom, take me away…
In that I received out of the blue two things from my wishlist: A history of CURRY and a big coffee table book of picture of ATOMIC BOMB BLASTS, both courtesy of the lovely, talented, and much-appreciated rumplestimpskin!!! Off to read one or both of them to the cat. THANKS STIMPY!!!
edit: fixed markup so it actually makes cognitive sense I didn’t like Vonnegut. He had one good book in him (Slaughterhouse-Five) and then he kept writing it again. Norman Mailer had a similar trajectory. The war, then The Naked and the Dead, followed by celebrity and admiration and a string of terrible books. Vonnegut had [...]
A dictionary just for you! http://amazon.com/dp/0877796262 :)
http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2007/01/15/features/dpt-closed15.txt They held on a few months after they announced their retirement, but now it’s gone for good. The Apollo, in its original location at 18th & Newport, was a big part of my education. Others had the same experience; we found entirely new worlds in stacks of dusty paperbacks. If I win the lottery [...]
I have no joke, I just like saying “Old Man Eggers”. edit: quisatsatterak wrote the best comment in that thread. Oh dear god that was good. I want books written by the kids of today! With upgraded brand names and rock bands and haircuts! This “Moby-Dick” thing doesn’t fit my TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC!
I just ordered The Logic Of Failure ( at amazon ) ( at isbn.nu ) I like Amazon’s SIPs, and I particularly like the ones for this book: Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): storeroom experiment, bad participants, predator variable, reductive hypothesis, reverse planning, elaboration index, ballistic behavior, experiment director, good participants, moth population, problem sector, partial [...]
I went to Kéan today to get more coffee beans. They have the La Lucie, meaning the real La Lucie the way it used to be. Recommend you pick some up if you’re local and like that dark roast Zimbabwean thing. Neurofeedback today. Brainwaves are getting better (higher beta, lower theta, less gap between). I [...]