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Post by booklady on Jun 9, 2007 12:28:11 GMT -5
Oh! We can be Aretha?! I wouldn't mind that!
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Post by booklady on Jun 9, 2007 12:31:54 GMT -5
Turns out I'm Good Charlotte, too. And I haven't heard of (her)(them)(it) either.
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Post by slb2 on Jun 9, 2007 17:52:08 GMT -5
them. males
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Post by booklady on Jun 9, 2007 18:39:35 GMT -5
If I'm going to be male, that's NOT who I'm going to be.
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Post by joew on Jun 9, 2007 22:04:40 GMT -5
If I'm going to be male, that's NOT who I'm going to be. Vincent Price?
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Post by booklady on Jun 9, 2007 22:36:23 GMT -5
Funny. Funny, Joe. ;D
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Post by gailkate on Mar 26, 2009 23:11:35 GMT -5
I'm sure we have a thread for this sort of thing, but I just picked what seemed reasonable. This warning comes from a guy I know as a perpetual candidate in St. Paul. He's not a jokester, but I know nothing else about this warning. More today here: urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_you_received_greeting_card.htm It isn't as dire as these hysterical messages often predict, but I learned from my bitter experience in January just how disruptive and expensive a little bot can be. Hi All, I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for this virus! I checked Snopes (URL above:), and it is for real!! Get this E-mail message sent around to your contacts ASAP. PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS! You should be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message with an attachment entitled 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK,' regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which 'burns' the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list. This is the reason why you need to send this e-mail to all your contacts It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it. If you receive a mail called' POSTCARD,' even though sent to you by a friend, do not open it! Shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst virus announced by CNN. It has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.
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Post by gailkate on Mar 29, 2009 18:34:49 GMT -5
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Post by Jane on Mar 29, 2009 20:00:50 GMT -5
60 Minutes tonight had a piece on some horrible virus that is poised to destroy us all. Run for cover!
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Post by gailkate on Mar 29, 2009 23:05:10 GMT -5
Did they say April 1? I think I'm just not going to log on till I hear the fall-out.
I finally gave up on 60 Mins what with the basketball delay.
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Post by booklady on Sept 18, 2009 14:01:46 GMT -5
Coming up on Wednesday on many PBS stations:
WALLACE STEGNER Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10 - 11:00pm (Eastern)
Explore the life of of the acclaimed writer, conservationist and teacher, and celebrate the 2009 centennial of his birth. Stegner, who became one of America's most notable writers with books like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, mentored a generation's great writers, including Ken Kesey, Edward Abbey and Larry McMurtry. (CC, Stereo)
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Post by liriodendron on Sept 18, 2009 15:59:07 GMT -5
Is he the one who wrote that blackbird poem that slb challenged us to copy back at the old Chatterbox? Or am I confusing my poets again? (Wouldn't be the first time.)
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Post by booklady on Sept 18, 2009 17:29:22 GMT -5
Stegner was not a poet. He was novelist and short story writer originally from the upper upper Midwest who later taught at Stanford and often wrote about the West. Wallace Stevens wrote 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Very close. You have a good mind, lirio!
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Post by liriodendron on Sept 18, 2009 21:41:51 GMT -5
I should probably know that. I am the worst read librarian ever. Seriously.
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Post by booklady on Sept 18, 2009 22:27:58 GMT -5
Oh, I doubt that.
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Post by doctork on Sept 19, 2009 16:31:00 GMT -5
You both have probably forgotten more about poetry and literature than I ever knew.
Oh well, I am pretty good at Trivial Pursuit.
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Post by gailkate on Sept 20, 2009 8:02:17 GMT -5
Didn't Stegner come up here fairly recently? I was reminded then that I'd never read any of his books. Jerry knew him at Berkeley, went to a party for students at his house and was blown away by the guy and his gardens. (The first time midewestern Jerry had seen koi ponds.) So now there's another writer to check out. It's struck me in the last couple of years that I may not have time to read all the books I want to read, not to mention the ones I should read. And what about all the books I only speed-read for college? do I have to read The Iliad again? Of course, for Trivial Pursuit, there is no better book than The Odyssey, right?
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Post by booklady on Sept 20, 2009 10:02:51 GMT -5
Depends on what you call "fairly recently." Stegner died in 1993. I've read a number of his novels, beginning with "All the Little Live Things" back in the 70s. At the time, for me, it was an interesting view of what you might call the "youth movement" -- drugs, hippies, sexual freedom -- seen from the viewpoint of an older, disapproving man. I like looking at things from different angles. Later, "Angle of Repose" reminded me a little of my parents. How do people, especially people from vastly different backgrounds, ever succeed in marriage and get over their disappointments with each other? "The Spectator Bird" featured some of the same characters as "Live Things" and I found it bewildering -- unpleasant (in subject matter, not in execution) -- why in the world did he decide to tell that particular story. "Crossing to Safety" was his last novel, I think, and looks at friendship, marriage, aging, acceptance of tragedy. Geez, I've made him out to be kinda depressing. I wish PT still posted here. I would love to read his assessment of Stegner. My feeling is that there's always an inherent tragedy in his work, something he's trying to figure out how to accept and live through. He's very serious, interested in the concepts of relationship and consequences of actions, decisions, events, and accidents.
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Post by gailkate on Sept 20, 2009 13:46:40 GMT -5
I meant that he had come up here, in some book thread, of which we seem to have had legions. But I wouldn't have said he died way back in '93. Now I feel even more aged. I appreciate your comments, because I think I'll give Stegner a pass. He sounds too much like me in my more pensive and melancholy moods. Too many bright stars of my younger days have been dimmed lately. The Iliad is sounding pretty peppy.
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Post by rogesgallery on Nov 30, 2009 1:42:49 GMT -5
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