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Trilby · 02-22-2009, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

How are things looking for 2012? Do I need to put up more goat fence?

How many times must I say it? 2012 = Fin!

So that'd be a big NO on the 'more goat fence' question.

Griff · 02-22-2009, 02:22 PM

So how much fence is that in rods?

wolf · 02-22-2009, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

How are things looking for 2012? Do I need to put up more goat fence?

Definitely more goat fence, and more goats, but that's primarily to get you through the current emergency.

At this point, I'm approaching the halfway point. The 2012 book so far actually has very little to say about 2012 and the prophecies, and more to say about hallucinogenics as a shortcut to shamanic experience. Think highbrow High Times. Quite a few years ago, I read the SAME ARTICLE in High Times and in Shaman's Drum. Stopped buying Shaman's Drum after that. Peer reviewed journal my ASS.

There is one very good article on Casteneda and how he basically made shit up and did a lot of damage ... to the field of cultural anthropology, to the tribes that the hippies flocked to in a kind of drug tourism, and to shamanic teachings as a whole.

Kaliayev · 02-24-2009, 11:00 AM

Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations - Various
Pax Pacifica: Terrorism, the Pacific Hemisphere, Globalization and Peace Studies - Johan Galtung
A Feast for Crows - George R R Martin.

DanaC · 02-24-2009, 12:24 PM

Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s, Claudia Johson

The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century, Kathleen Wilson

The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, Mary Seacole

Doctor Who, Short Trips: Steel Skies, a short story anthology.

wolf · 03-04-2009, 02:02 PM

Heat - Stuart Woods (disposable novel I took to the conference. Still chugging through it because I spent most of my train time doing Sudoku)

Medical Science of House, M.D. - Andrew Holtz, M.D. (Throws in an occasional House reference, which is probably what put it over the edge as far as getting it published. Otherwise, it's pretty much a book on what doctors do. Still pretty cool.)

Trilby · 03-06-2009, 07:55 AM

Voluntary Madness - Norah Vincent

She's quite right about some things but she's also kind of a hack and a bitch AND manic-y.

Kaliayev · 03-06-2009, 09:16 AM

Kissinger - The White House Years
Ivan Molly - Rolling Back Revolution: The Emergence of Low Intensity Conflict
Malcom Dando - Bioterror and Biowarfare

Trilby · 03-06-2009, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Zhuge Liang

Kissinger - The White House Years
Ivan Molly - Rolling Back Revolution: The Emergence of Low Intensity Conflict
Malcom Dando - Bioterror and Biowarfare

Are you trying to make me look politically unaware?

you bastard!

Kaliayev · 03-06-2009, 10:30 AM

I like to think my reading list makes everyone look politically unaware. Especially me, since I'm the one reading them all.

Besides, its either that or read the Twilight series, and I'm not sure I can take that much hilarity again, especially so soon after the film.

Trilby · 03-06-2009, 10:03 PM

Norah Vincent is your worst nightmare: a self-absorbed depressive with a Thesaurus. OMG. I'm going to burn this book and mail the ashes to her publisher.

Reckless, irresponsible, highly flawed and just wrong.

She's like a plant: a Blooming Idiot.

lumberjim · 03-08-2009, 10:30 PM

Son of the Circus

by John Irving

monster · 03-08-2009, 11:31 PM

Just read biogs of Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong and a novel by Perri Klass called The Mercy Rule which was pretty good.

DanaC · 03-09-2009, 03:44 AM

How you finding son of the circus Lj?

I never finished that one. It's the only Irving I've ever started and not finished reading. Dunno why, wrong time to read it.

Kaliayev · 03-11-2009, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

Norah Vincent is your worst nightmare: a self-absorbed depressive with a Thesaurus. OMG. I'm going to burn this book and mail the ashes to her publisher.

Reckless, irresponsible, highly flawed and just wrong.

She's like a plant: a Blooming Idiot.

See, that sounds hilarious to me. For all the wrong reasons, but still...

Of late, I have become addicted to bad fanfic, however, which is like nothing you can find in print, x100. My new favourite site, TV Tropes, is to blame.

So far, thanks to the fearless and possibly brain damaged Tropers, I have read:

Dragonball Z/Diary of Anne Frank fanfic.
Cthulhu Date Rape fanfic
Harry Potter turns to the Lord fanfic
Hermione's new change fanfic
Paul McCartney gets pregnant fanfic, and
Snape on the Astral Plane, a fanfic so bad, I have only ever been able to find extracts of the original.

Sometimes, I worry about my own writing skills. Then I read stuff like this, and I realize I'm the goddamn Batm...uh, Shakespeare, by contrast.

02-22-2009, 02:22 PM	#1367
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	So how much fence is that in rods? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-04-2009, 02:02 PM	#1371
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Heat - Stuart Woods (disposable novel I took to the conference. Still chugging through it because I spent most of my train time doing Sudoku) Medical Science of House, M.D. - Andrew Holtz, M.D. (Throws in an occasional House reference, which is probably what put it over the edge as far as getting it published. Otherwise, it's pretty much a book on what doctors do. Still pretty cool.) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-06-2009, 07:55 AM	#1372
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Voluntary Madness - Norah Vincent She's quite right about some things but she's also kind of a hack and a bitch AND manic-y. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

03-06-2009, 10:03 PM	#1376
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Norah Vincent is your worst nightmare: a self-absorbed depressive with a Thesaurus. OMG. I'm going to burn this book and mail the ashes to her publisher. Reckless, irresponsible, highly flawed and just wrong. She's like a plant: a Blooming Idiot. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

03-08-2009, 10:30 PM	#1377
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	Son of the Circus by John Irving __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

02-24-2009, 11:00 AM	#1369
Kaliayev Magnificent Bastard Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 216	Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations - Various Pax Pacifica: Terrorism, the Pacific Hemisphere, Globalization and Peace Studies - Johan Galtung A Feast for Crows - George R R Martin.

02-24-2009, 12:24 PM	#1370
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s, Claudia Johson The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century, Kathleen Wilson The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, Mary Seacole Doctor Who, Short Trips: Steel Skies, a short story anthology.

03-06-2009, 09:16 AM	#1373
Kaliayev Magnificent Bastard Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 216	Kissinger - The White House Years Ivan Molly - Rolling Back Revolution: The Emergence of Low Intensity Conflict Malcom Dando - Bioterror and Biowarfare

03-06-2009, 10:30 AM	#1375
Kaliayev Magnificent Bastard Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 216	I like to think my reading list makes everyone look politically unaware. Especially me, since I'm the one reading them all. Besides, its either that or read the Twilight series, and I'm not sure I can take that much hilarity again, especially so soon after the film.

03-08-2009, 11:31 PM	#1378
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Just read biogs of Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong and a novel by Perri Klass called The Mercy Rule which was pretty good. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-09-2009, 03:44 AM	#1379
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	How you finding son of the circus Lj? I never finished that one. It's the only Irving I've ever started and not finished reading. Dunno why, wrong time to read it.

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