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donatella,
thanks for the play by play on
the animation.
I don’t know how lechacal
has the patience to go
through that process of
stop and shoot, stop and shoot.
It’s always funny going over some
of our threads here with full access
to the posted links.
benson,
you will not like the Magical Realists.
on the classics, I’ve been reading
The House of the Seven Gables for like
two years now.
It’s in my carry on bag so I only get
back to it on airplane flights. 😉
Speaking of unions….Went out for lunch just now and what do I see..A union rat with a bunch of painters union folks in front of the new Trader Joes that’s being built in Chelsea (22nd and 6th). I am just excited that we’re getting a Trader Joes right by my office.
Oh, no, I forgot, two months ago I read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.
Legion, true about the golden age of baseball in NY. It was a generational thing too. For the generation which grew up in the Depression, baseball was EVERYTHING. Benson, I had a hard time getting into that, probably because I NEED to be thinking linearly to do all the things I am trying to accomplish – not too much patience for that book. I don’t read too much fiction now which I feel sorry about – the last novel I read was Anna Karenina last year.
Pete, you didn’t like the comment about unions sucking monkey nuts? BTW we missed you on yesterday’s union thread. Were you lurking?
I liked “The Corrections”. I think it was overrated and overhyped, and tend to avoid books (movies, TV shows, etc., like that) but I still liked it.
benson,
you know what I find amazing about
Dante’s Divine Comedy,
aside from the fact that it’s written
as a poem,
the way he lambastes political and
religious figures of the day and
forever immortalizes them in his work.
ugh, the corrections was the ranting of a petulant child.
white noise was odd but kept me reading
currently reading chang rae lee’s “the surrendered”, all his previous books have been about the korean immigrant experience, heartbreaking at times.
“scatalogical”, BH hates when I use that word…
sca·tol·o·gy (sk-tl-j)
n.
1. The study and analysis of feces for physiological and diagnostic purposes. Also called coprology.
2. An obsession with excrement or excretory functions.
3. The psychiatric study of such an obsession.