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Franzen begins to grate on me after awhile. I enjoyed the essay Lost in the Mail about the Chicago post office and its seriously problems (mountains of undelivered mail from years ago to present day, stashed bundles hidden in carriers' apartments, fires lit with undelivered mail). Most of the other...
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It was an intelligent country, it housed cultivated people who, like cultivated people all over the globe, ran around in an unsettled state of mind amid a tremendous whirl of noise, speed, innovation, conflict, and whatever goes to make up the optical-acoustical landscape of our lives; like everybody else, they...
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Site: Links
by mjs in x: Links on 25Dec2002
http://aldaily.com/ http://bookslut.com/blog.html http://identitytheory.com/books/ http://identitytheory.com/people/reader.html http://mcsweeneys.net/ http://memepool.com/Subject/Books/ http://mobylives.com/ http://pepysdiary.com/ http://televisionwithoutpity.com/...
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Electric Circus
by mjs in x: Music: CD on 25Dec2002
Still I have heard nothing about this album in the mainstream press. Am I looking in the wrong places? Am I just not looking? Hip-hop rock and roll, keyboards everywhere, and a live band. Common, sporting an afro and beard, gets all Hendrix on us, lacing heavy electric guitar, soulful...
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Sparked definite interest in reading Life of Johnson, which is gathering dust on all 3 volumes on my bookcase. Bozzy was a jovial sort who drank too much and whored around, but when it got right down to it, he had the right friends who kept him going (and his...
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The Perfect Dinner?
by mjs in x: Food & Drink on 09Dec2002
baby lettuce with winter fruit and parmesan tarro and porcini soup whole thai snapper with white wine, parsley, lemon, anchovies butternut squash with ...... bottle of 2000 .......rizzou ah hirsch 16 year old bourbon homemade cookies (ginerbread, peanut butter, sugar, chocolate/macademia, oatmeal raisin, ...) courtesy Rose Pistola, the day of...
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Masthead
by mjs in x: Masthead on 09Dec2002
Loud Latin Laughing is a web catalog of reading. This site always under construction. Inquire within. Joyce, Ulysses, Chapter 3 My Latin quarter hat. God, we simply must dress the character. I want puce gloves. You were a student, weren't you? Of what in the other devil's name? Paysayenn. P....
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maybe just not in the mood for this historical reconstruction of the Revolutionary giants....
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The tipping point
by lz in Reading Archive on 08Dec2002
Very much enjoying this one. The three rules of epidemic: law of the few, stickiness factor, power of context. Law of the few: connectors, mavens and salesmen Paul Revere was a connector (one who is charismatic and knows a lot of people) and a maven (broker of information). Hence the...
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Reading this one, again. A week on the beach and a happenstance meeting with a gent who persuaded me of the necessity of having one's own sailboat....
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The Descent
by lz in Stranded on 06Dec2002
I had to give up on this one after 120 pages. It's clever-ish, but the whole point of the book is lost on someone living in 2002. Underground nuclear bomb shelters are quaint nowadays, and I can't muster enough excitement about the book itself to finish this. It might have...
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