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[Osaurus]

FYI: Doing 2 Insanity workouts in 12 hours is not a good idea....at least for my fat ###. :deadbanana:

 

[YSR]

My husband just rolled in from a poker game he went to at 9:00 last night. Probably going to be a pretty productive Saturday.

 

[flysack]

Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.

Geekgasm.

 

[Guster]

My husband just rolled in from a poker game he went to at 9:00 last night. Probably going to be a pretty productive Saturday.

Does he smell like sparkles?

 

[Abraham]

Where's COlin or Rude? I think one of them should lock the "do you think this thread can get to 560 posts?" thread at 559 posts.

You missed my post in that thread, I see.

My husband just rolled in from a poker game he went to at 9:00 last night. Probably going to be a pretty productive Saturday.

Challenge him to something. "I bet you can't rake all the leaves in the yard in under two hours....I bet you can't cook a ribeye medium well for me...I bet you can't rub my feet for thirty minutes without stopping..."

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Where's COlin or Rude? I think one of them should lock the "do you think this thread can get to 560 posts?" thread at 559 posts.

You missed my post in that thread, I see.

My husband just rolled in from a poker game he went to at 9:00 last night. Probably going to be a pretty productive Saturday.

Challenge him to something. "I bet you can't rake all the leaves in the yard in under two hours....I bet you can't cook a ribeye medium well for me...I bet you can't rub my feet for thirty minutes without stopping..."

Great minds think alike. I hadn't even read the thread when I posted that.And good advice to YSR. On the extremely unlikely chance Romo lost at poker, he's gonna want to win at SOMETHING.

 

[YSR]

Where's COlin or Rude? I think one of them should lock the "do you think this thread can get to 560 posts?" thread at 559 posts.

You missed my post in that thread, I see.

My husband just rolled in from a poker game he went to at 9:00 last night. Probably going to be a pretty productive Saturday.

Challenge him to something. "I bet you can't rake all the leaves in the yard in under two hours....I bet you can't cook a ribeye medium well for me...I bet you can't rub my feet for thirty minutes without stopping..."

Great minds think alike. I hadn't even read the thread when I posted that.And good advice to YSR. On the extremely unlikely chance Romo lost at poker, he's gonna want to win at SOMETHING.

Oh, he won. So, I got the "just think of it as my coming home from working a night job". Oh, ok.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Where's COlin or Rude? I think one of them should lock the "do you think this thread can get to 560 posts?" thread at 559 posts.

You missed my post in that thread, I see.

My husband just rolled in from a poker game he went to at 9:00 last night. Probably going to be a pretty productive Saturday.

Challenge him to something. "I bet you can't rake all the leaves in the yard in under two hours....I bet you can't cook a ribeye medium well for me...I bet you can't rub my feet for thirty minutes without stopping..."

Great minds think alike. I hadn't even read the thread when I posted that.And good advice to YSR. On the extremely unlikely chance Romo lost at poker, he's gonna want to win at SOMETHING.

Oh, he won. So, I got the "just think of it as my coming home from working a night job". Oh, ok.

Did he chain the other players to their chairs until he got in the black, or did he come home with the deeds to 5 houses?

 

[phishphan]

IMPORTANT CAT UPDATE!!!!!!!!!111111111ONEONEONEONE

Went to find out if we had (1) zero, (2) one, or (3) two cats dying tonight. Turns out the vet on call was not the bald, bearded and bespectacled, kindly Dr. Williams, but the I'm-not-kidding-she's-tweaking Dr. Such-and-Such (didn't catch it). So I have no idea if the cats are dying, or I am, or exactly what's going on, but got to take the young fuzzy one home and left the old one for another night in the hospital, though the young fuzzy one might have to go back tomorrow or go to "some university teaching hospital" like the tweaker said. Also the young fuzzy one might have something in his kidneys that we could have seen if the tweaker could figure out how to put the x-rays up, turn off the room lights, and point out whatever she was pointing out, without losing her train of thought 1862 times.

Need a new vet.

Is Dr. Snow (the young one) still there?

 

[Guster]

I wonder if regular meditation time at work would help k4 in the short term?

I recommend at least 30 minutes twice each week

 

[Guster]

Seriously congrats GBG.But meditate? Seriously? I would have such a hard time sucking it up and going to that.

In a normal work environment, sure... But this place is much more "creative"I mean, there is a gong on every floor, bean bag chairs and exercise balls all over the place Plus the team is really close. There are 6-8 people total in this group and they are in a renovated old building downtown, separated from the rest of the company. When there are only 7 other people in your office, i imagine you tend to get to know them pretty well and develop a certain level of comfort.

What would you be creating?

Ideas. Haven't you been paying attention?

 

[Guster]

Just talked for a while with SLB. One of these days I'm going to drink and smoke with him. My phone kept geeking out and he sounded like RoboCop for most of the call. I felt bad that I kept saying "What?"

That wasn't your phone, it's just a voice Bob likes to do when he's drunk

 

[Thorn]

Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.

Geekgasm.

Nice. I happen to really like Morrison. Never heard of this Brodsky broad though.

 

[charvik]

Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.

Geekgasm.

I think Morrison is enormously overrated, there I said it. No :hoods:Still pretty cool.

 

[flysack]

Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.

Geekgasm.

I think Morrison is enormously overrated, there I said it. No :hoods:Still pretty cool.

The problem with Morrison is she's either spectacular or average. Beloved is as good as American letters gets. Jazz? Not so much. From what I heard, Song of Solomon is extremely impressive and Paradise is no slouch either. The Bluest Eye hasn't aged as well, but still holds up as 'the' experimental/postmodern era work by an African American writer. I think her best work deserved the Nobel Prize though (she's the last American to win one too, a "scandal" the Americans never fail to harp about every time a new award is announced).I dig her because she writes in my own creative lineage, which I (roughly) trace back to Faulkner and see branching outward in two main veins: white male Delillo and black female Morrison.

Really looking forward to the reading - if I can tickets.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Seriously congrats GBG.

But meditate? Seriously? I would have such a hard time sucking it up and going to that.

In a normal work environment, sure... But this place is much more "creative"I mean, there is a gong on every floor, bean bag chairs and exercise balls all over the place

Plus the team is really close. There are 6-8 people total in this group and they are in a renovated old building downtown, separated from the rest of the company. When there are only 7 other people in your office, i imagine you tend to get to know them pretty well and develop a certain level of comfort.

Sounds fun

Agreed. Probably in the minority here and I can see certain people thinking it's flakey, etc. of me, but that sounds like a great work environment for a corporate gig, Gust. Just so long as they don't bust out a goat and some rubbers during meditation initiation. You may even like it - like someone said, it'll be like a mid-afternoon nap. I'm curious to know what kind of meditation they have you do. I'm guessing some cheesy new age guided meditation, but you never know. Also, if they actually offer yoga - GO. Any hot office chick (assuming there is some) will be there in yoga pants showing you how flexible she is. Yes.

Ah my old high school pick up line.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Where's COlin or Rude? I think one of them should lock the "do you think this thread can get to 560 posts?" thread at 559 posts.

What's going on in there?

Damned if I know. I just thought it would be funny to lock it down before reaching its goal

That thread won't see the other side of 100 unless people shtick it up

hmmm.....

What? Do you know anyone?

No, Red - I don't know anyone. Not one single person. Hard to believe, I know, but I actually know nobody.

 

[Thorn]

Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.

Geekgasm.

I think Morrison is enormously overrated, there I said it. No :hoods:Still pretty cool.

The problem with Morrison is she's either spectacular or average. Beloved is as good as American letters gets. Jazz? Not so much. From what I heard, Song of Solomon is extremely impressive and Paradise is no slouch either. The Bluest Eye hasn't aged as well, but still holds up as 'the' experimental/postmodern era work by an African American writer. I think her best work deserved the Nobel Prize though (she's the last American to win one too, a "scandal" the Americans never fail to harp about every time a new award is announced).I dig her because she writes in my own creative lineage, which I (roughly) trace back to Faulkner and see branching outward in two main veins: white male Delillo and black female Morrison.

Really looking forward to the reading - if I can tickets.

Song of Solomon is one of the best books I've ever read.ETA - for me it struck that perfect balance between telling a story with a strong narrative and being "literature," for lack of a better word. Enjoyable and readable, but also much more to it than just a story.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Best of luck with your cats, Krista.

 

[Thorn]

Where's COlin or Rude? I think one of them should lock the "do you think this thread can get to 560 posts?" thread at 559 posts.

What's going on in there?

Damned if I know. I just thought it would be funny to lock it down before reaching its goal

That thread won't see the other side of 100 unless people shtick it up

hmmm.....

What? Do you know anyone?

No, Red - I don't know anyone. Not one single person. Hard to believe, I know, but I actually know nobody.

Can't believe I just now clued in that T Bell = red.

 

[YSR]

Best of luck with your cats, Krista.

Just now really able to scroll back through and read the recent posts in the thread. Best of luck with the kitties, and also, glll with the job stuff. Sounds like you (and others) have some good things on the horizon.

 

[Thorn]

Best of luck with your cats, Krista.

Just now really able to scroll back through and read the recent posts in the thread. Best of luck with the kitties, and also, glll with the job stuff. Sounds like you (and others) have some good things on the horizon.

though I didn't really understand the vet thing. Hope all goes well :(

 

[Aerial Assault]

Best of luck with your cats, Krista.

Beat me to it.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

What kind of money did Romo pull down last night? This is all getting reported to the IRS, RIGHT!?!?!?

 

[flysack]

Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.

Geekgasm.

I think Morrison is enormously overrated, there I said it. No :hoods:Still pretty cool.

The problem with Morrison is she's either spectacular or average. Beloved is as good as American letters gets. Jazz? Not so much. From what I heard, Song of Solomon is extremely impressive and Paradise is no slouch either. The Bluest Eye hasn't aged as well, but still holds up as 'the' experimental/postmodern era work by an African American writer. I think her best work deserved the Nobel Prize though (she's the last American to win one too, a "scandal" the Americans never fail to harp about every time a new award is announced).I dig her because she writes in my own creative lineage, which I (roughly) trace back to Faulkner and see branching outward in two main veins: white male Delillo and black female Morrison.

Really looking forward to the reading - if I can tickets.

Song of Solomon is one of the best books I've ever read.ETA - for me it struck that perfect balance between telling a story with a strong narrative and being "literature," for lack of a better word. Enjoyable and readable, but also much more to it than just a story.

:lit chat activatedostoevesky is the master of this. If you haven't read The Brothers Karamazov, pick it up asap. You'd love it. It's the ultimate thinking man's page turner.

 

[YSR]

What kind of money did Romo pull down last night? This is all getting reported to the IRS, RIGHT!?!?!?

Came back over $500 in winnings (including his KKKK winning ~$100 for high hand of the night). All in play money, of course.

 

[flysack]

Best of luck with your cats, Krista.

Beat me to it.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to beat me to a cat sympathy post.

 

[Aerial Assault]

You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to beat me to a cat sympathy post.

Must be true; stayed up all night and still didn't manage it. Good to know there are cat lovers in the GMTAN.

 

[Guster]

Can't believe I just now clued in that T Bell = red.

I had to inquire

 

[Thorn]

Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.

Geekgasm.

I think Morrison is enormously overrated, there I said it. No :hoods:Still pretty cool.

The problem with Morrison is she's either spectacular or average. Beloved is as good as American letters gets. Jazz? Not so much. From what I heard, Song of Solomon is extremely impressive and Paradise is no slouch either. The Bluest Eye hasn't aged as well, but still holds up as 'the' experimental/postmodern era work by an African American writer. I think her best work deserved the Nobel Prize though (she's the last American to win one too, a "scandal" the Americans never fail to harp about every time a new award is announced).I dig her because she writes in my own creative lineage, which I (roughly) trace back to Faulkner and see branching outward in two main veins: white male Delillo and black female Morrison.

Really looking forward to the reading - if I can tickets.

Song of Solomon is one of the best books I've ever read.ETA - for me it struck that perfect balance between telling a story with a strong narrative and being "literature," for lack of a better word. Enjoyable and readable, but also much more to it than just a story.

:lit chat activatedostoevesky is the master of this. If you haven't read The Brothers Karamazov, pick it up asap. You'd love it. It's the ultimate thinking man's page turner.

Kooky. I have been reading it in pieces while taking breaks from Ulysses.

 

[Guster]

My daughter's Daisy troop (early stage of Girl Scouts) is having a father-daughter dance tonight. We had been planning to go, but late this morning she got all upset and said she didn't want to go. I can't figure out why, the best she's been able to tell me is that some girl she's never really cared about before quit and she's sad that they won't be able to dance together. She is a woman, so I'm fully expecting her to change her mind back and forth several times before the 7pm start. She was so sweet though, she wanted to know if I was upset and disappointed. I told her that I just wanted her to be happy and that she knows I'll dance with her anytime she wants I was planning on dropping her off at her mom's after the dance because one of my good friends is having her birthday party tonight. Looks like I might get to go to more of that than I had originally expected. Birthday girl turned 30 last year and during her party I asked her what birthday shot I could buy her. She told me she didn't care and she'd drink anything, so me being a little drunk and a bit of an ### bought her a celebratory Four Horsemen because that's how I rang in my 30th. That more or less ended her night last year.

 

[krista4]

Thorn, the vet that saw the cats seems to be on meth. That was the story.

Methvet gave me back both cats today. Still don't know what is wrong with them, since the only idea she had is that they got a blood parasite from a flea, despite the fact that neither cat has ever been outside except to go to the vet. Real vet is supposed to call on Monday with blood-test results from young fuzzy cat (they forgot to take his blood yesterday ), so I hope to get actual helpful information from him.

Fuller, haven't seen Dr. Snow in a while. Just Williams and Methvet. They also renamed the place so I'm wondering if they sold it?

ETA: Thanks for all the well wishes.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.

Geekgasm.

I think Morrison is enormously overrated, there I said it. No :hoods:Still pretty cool.

The problem with Morrison is she's either spectacular or average. Beloved is as good as American letters gets. Jazz? Not so much. From what I heard, Song of Solomon is extremely impressive and Paradise is no slouch either. The Bluest Eye hasn't aged as well, but still holds up as 'the' experimental/postmodern era work by an African American writer. I think her best work deserved the Nobel Prize though (she's the last American to win one too, a "scandal" the Americans never fail to harp about every time a new award is announced).I dig her because she writes in my own creative lineage, which I (roughly) trace back to Faulkner and see branching outward in two main veins: white male Delillo and black female Morrison.

Really looking forward to the reading - if I can tickets.

Song of Solomon is one of the best books I've ever read.ETA - for me it struck that perfect balance between telling a story with a strong narrative and being "literature," for lack of a better word. Enjoyable and readable, but also much more to it than just a story.

:lit chat activatedostoevesky is the master of this. If you haven't read The Brothers Karamazov, pick it up asap. You'd love it. It's the ultimate thinking man's page turner.

Kooky. I have been reading it in pieces while taking breaks from Ulysses.

I think.

 

[Otis]

Sorry.

Pretty sure that's not real.

Why?

 

[krista4]

Also to Thorn, did the law-firm guy try to recruit you?Congrats to all with the various job successes. Sorry I haven't posted more individual congrats--wrapped up too much in my own crap. I need to get away somewhere. Could we redo coshole in a couple of weeks? TIA.

 

[Otis]

This all looks pretty real to me.

 

[Thorn]

Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.

Geekgasm.

I think Morrison is enormously overrated, there I said it. No :hoods:Still pretty cool.

The problem with Morrison is she's either spectacular or average. Beloved is as good as American letters gets. Jazz? Not so much. From what I heard, Song of Solomon is extremely impressive and Paradise is no slouch either. The Bluest Eye hasn't aged as well, but still holds up as 'the' experimental/postmodern era work by an African American writer. I think her best work deserved the Nobel Prize though (she's the last American to win one too, a "scandal" the Americans never fail to harp about every time a new award is announced).I dig her because she writes in my own creative lineage, which I (roughly) trace back to Faulkner and see branching outward in two main veins: white male Delillo and black female Morrison.

Really looking forward to the reading - if I can tickets.

Song of Solomon is one of the best books I've ever read.ETA - for me it struck that perfect balance between telling a story with a strong narrative and being "literature," for lack of a better word. Enjoyable and readable, but also much more to it than just a story.

:lit chat activatedostoevesky is the master of this. If you haven't read The Brothers Karamazov, pick it up asap. You'd love it. It's the ultimate thinking man's page turner.

Kooky. I have been reading it in pieces while taking breaks from Ulysses.

I think.

It was serious.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

This all looks pretty real to me.

My link

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.

Geekgasm.

I think Morrison is enormously overrated, there I said it. No :hoods:Still pretty cool.

The problem with Morrison is she's either spectacular or average. Beloved is as good as American letters gets. Jazz? Not so much. From what I heard, Song of Solomon is extremely impressive and Paradise is no slouch either. The Bluest Eye hasn't aged as well, but still holds up as 'the' experimental/postmodern era work by an African American writer. I think her best work deserved the Nobel Prize though (she's the last American to win one too, a "scandal" the Americans never fail to harp about every time a new award is announced).I dig her because she writes in my own creative lineage, which I (roughly) trace back to Faulkner and see branching outward in two main veins: white male Delillo and black female Morrison.

Really looking forward to the reading - if I can tickets.

Song of Solomon is one of the best books I've ever read.ETA - for me it struck that perfect balance between telling a story with a strong narrative and being "literature," for lack of a better word. Enjoyable and readable, but also much more to it than just a story.

:lit chat activatedostoevesky is the master of this. If you haven't read The Brothers Karamazov, pick it up asap. You'd love it. It's the ultimate thinking man's page turner.

Kooky. I have been reading it in pieces while taking breaks from Ulysses.

I think.

It was serious.

Oh, well...good for you then.

 

[Thorn]

Also to Thorn, did the law-firm guy try to recruit you?Congrats to all with the various job successes. Sorry I haven't posted more individual congrats--wrapped up too much in my own crap. I need to get away somewhere. Could we redo coshole in a couple of weeks? TIA.

Turned out to be a false alarm as far as I can tell.Which I guess is fine. I did sign two new plaintiffs cases this week and also got a new medium-size box store client that wants to buy 12-20 sites in my state to purpose-build retail locations. Did I mention I'm posting from the office? Oof.

 

[krista4]

Also to Thorn, did the law-firm guy try to recruit you?Congrats to all with the various job successes. Sorry I haven't posted more individual congrats--wrapped up too much in my own crap. I need to get away somewhere. Could we redo coshole in a couple of weeks? TIA.

Turned out to be a false alarm as far as I can tell.Which I guess is fine. I did sign two new plaintiffs cases this week and also got a new medium-size box store client that wants to buy 12-20 sites in my state to purpose-build retail locations. Did I mention I'm posting from the office? Oof.

I was reminded how silly my job is when I sheepishly let three different people know yesterday that I had to leave the office really early to go to the vet, meaning I left at 5.At least today I'm working from home.

 

[FDAS]

I didn't realize RN moved to Alabama.

 

[Thorn]

Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?

 

[Good Posting Judge]

What kind of money did Romo pull down last night? This is all getting reported to the IRS, RIGHT!?!?!?

Came back over $500 in winnings (including his KKKK winning ~$100 for high hand of the night). All in play money, of course.

I might go play tonight. I have an entire night to myself, it might be debauch-time.Is this 2/5 NL? 1/2?

 

[Guster]

Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?

Not defending corporate lingo, but

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?

Agreed

 

[Otis]

This all looks pretty real to me.

My link

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Also to Thorn, did the law-firm guy try to recruit you?Congrats to all with the various job successes. Sorry I haven't posted more individual congrats--wrapped up too much in my own crap. I need to get away somewhere. Could we redo coshole in a couple of weeks? TIA.

I'm game for a 4-day weekend in Nicaragua

 

[Guster]

Also to Thorn, did the law-firm guy try to recruit you?Congrats to all with the various job successes. Sorry I haven't posted more individual congrats--wrapped up too much in my own crap. I need to get away somewhere. Could we redo coshole in a couple of weeks? TIA.

I'm game for a 4-day weekend in Nicaragua

K4 > Any update on the robbers?