Looks like the kitty has the brain today.

It happens once a year or so.

Just finished reading Wild At Heart (David Lynch's film was based on this book), currently reading Perdita Durango, next up is The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula, all by Barry Gifford.

I'm reading The Piano Teacher. The author has a peculiar writing style to get's a bit tedious.

Not even....

More like Brigadoon, eh?

More like a mass extinction - not in the average lifetime.

(I love Lerner & Lowe!!!)

It's nice of CeeGee to share them with you.

Hey, Pussy, your book never showed up. I know you said you sent it. Maybe it'll show up in a month, covered in customs tape.

OH XIT!!!!

No worries. I'm glad the monkeys didn't misplace it.

I just found out that my newest shipment of books is scheduled to arrive Wednesday.
I have to stretch my book out until then.

Guess I'm gonna have to dumb it down and sound out all the words all slow-like.

I'm waiting for some I ordered, too. I picked up used copies of BF Skinner's Walden II and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. I'm rereading them both — one to counteract the other.

I love that Solzhenitsyn book. I need to reread it for the gazillionth time.

I'm surprised nobody has noticed this place. It could almost be a sister site.
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issu...4-southpole.htm

This is a particularly good article about drinking in the south pole.

Actually, we have had a few links to their articles before.

By the way, I find it somewhat serendipitous that the Modern Drunkard Convention is being held the same weekend as LCLF05.

Grate minds...

I'll send it to you, if you want. Pass it on.

Just in case you missed it, Abby . . .

I think people should get banned for posting clown images.
A two-week bitch-slap would be nice.

Don't tempt me.

Yeah!

Thpppppppptttttttttttttt!

Thanks, but there is at least one copy somewhere in the house.

Awrighty folks, time to strap on the old horn rimmed glasses again!

Invisible cities, by Italo Calvino

Ohhhhh yeah!!

Calvino writes with an allegorical style that is reminiscent of the very best science fiction. These are truly cities of the mind.

Tales of Ordinary Madness, by Charles Bukowski

Buke's gotta be the classiest drunk ever, and not only that, he is also a master of the short story. Each one encompasses its own little world of drunken whoremongering, worthless humanity, and dog racing. Not to mention rape, shitting in a bag, inappropriate gifts, and poetry.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais

Don't ask me which is the best translation, but nothing beats the original Paul Bunyan. What do you get when a 100m tall giant king loads up his ship with 10,000 barrels of wine and goes adventuring? A rollicking good time, that's what!

The Redneck Manifesto, by Jim Goad

Finally, the cultural defense every hillbilly needs! Smashes white racial apologetics into smithereens.

Happy reading, you drunk bastards!

Maldoror, by the Comte de Lautreamont

God's pubic hair.

'Nuff said

Glassy,

I got the book today.
It's on my list now. I have to finish Earthquake Weather and then Lamb first.

But 1) thanks for sending it!
and 2) fuckin' hell, what is it, the Holy Grail? Ease up on the packing tape. Christ, it took me a half hour to open!

Oh fuck,
I tell her that all the time.

She's quite thorough, that's for sure.

I have had my share of shipping disasters.

When it comes to packaging, I take no prisoners.

If there's a nuclear explosion, cockroaches and Glassy's packages will survive.

At least they'll have something to read. Anyone ever read The Cockroaches of Staymore?

Oh, goody!

Ship ME somewhere, Mistress...

Please?

Finished my "loose trilogy" (as it's been called).
Now I'm depressed that it's over.

Oh well, the blasphemous two on deck should help with that.

I read The Piano Teacher. On to Atonement.

Just finished Jarry's Ubu Roi. Now reading American Falls, a collection of short stories by Barry "Wild At Heart" Gifford.

Finished Homeland by Sam Sam Lipsyte.
Hilarious, written as letters to his High School updates newsletter
about his and their pathetic lives. Brilliant.

Into Tibet
Actual story of OSS/CIA covert ops into Asia, Mongolia and Tibet from 1948-1952.
First to help the Chinese rulers fight off Mao during the Revolution then to spy on Russian nuke tests and the Chinese, and the half-assed efforts/indifference towards helping Tibet repel the Chinese.
Fascinating read.

Now reading Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen, a fantastic writer.

No More Secondhand God by. R. Buckminster Fuller

The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by Von Neumann and Morgenstern

Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski.

good book.
it's really hard not to drink whilst reaking hank, though.

I know.

Especially whilst reaking hank.

CG is reeking havoc.

As always, thank Jeebus.

well, besides eating, boozing, and taking up a LOT of space, that's what i do best.

Such a good boy.

Cybernetics, by Norbert Wiener

I've been reading this.

Oh my.
That was a hoot.

Um, no.

But that's assumed.

I'm reading The Corrections (thanks to a buddy ).
That and a bunch of cripe for my thesis.
The Corrections is betterer.