JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
I can't believe he even used the galli cricket cliche. readmore
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I can't believe he even used the galli cricket cliche.
JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
I can't believe he even used the galli cricket cliche. readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
I can't believe he even used the galli cricket cliche. readmore
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As usual, now is a very good time to read this.
JP via aaahfooey on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
As usual, now is a very good time to read this. readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
As usual, now is a very good time to read this. readmore
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There was a time when I wouldn't wear t-shirts like these
JP via aaahfooey on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
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JP via aaahfooey on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
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Last weekend, many Indians were all agog over the planting of
JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
Last weekend, many Indians were all agog over the planting of our t readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
Last weekend, many Indians were all agog over the planting of our t readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
Garden gnomes banned from church cemetery because they are 'unnatural creatures' I think I just had an irony overdose.Incidentally, I suspect my wife would gladly offer our garden as a refuge for homeless and cast-out gnom readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
Garden gnomes banned from church cemetery because they are 'unnatural creatures' I think I just had an irony overdose.Incidentally, I suspect my wife would gladly offer our garden as a refuge for homeless and cast-out gnom readmore
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My grandfather used to wake up at 4.30 every morning, meditate
JP via aaahfooey on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
My grandfather used to wake up at 4.30 every morning, meditate and then make coffee. readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
My grandfather used to wake up at 4.30 every morning, meditate and then make coffee. readmore
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Go now, your lord is dead and can't even fight pollution.
JP via aaahfooey on Fri, 24 Oct. 2008
Go now, your lord is dead and can't even fight pollution. readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Fri, 24 Oct. 2008
Go now, your lord is dead and can't even fight pollution. readmore
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seen in traffic
(unknown author) via aaahfooey on Mon, 20 Oct. 2008
Shared by Clash ha ha! readmore
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(unknown author) via aaahfooey on Mon, 20 Oct. 2008
Shared by Clash ha ha! readmore
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(unknown author) via aaahfooey on Wed, 15 Oct. 2008
Shared by Clash From the machine that churns out book reviews! The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes.In the year 2020, the Mexican president decides to defy USA with a couple of defiant policy declarations. In retaliation, Mexico's communications networks, provided by contractors who are fronts for US government departments, are suspended. In the ens readmore
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(unknown author) via aaahfooey on Wed, 15 Oct. 2008
Shared by Clash From the machine that churns out book reviews! The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes.In the year 2020, the Mexican president decides to defy USA with a couple of defiant policy declarations. In retaliation, Mexico's communications networks, provided by contractors who are fronts for US government departments, are suspended. In the ens readmore
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*The Eagle's Throne *by Carlos Fuentes.In the year 2020, the
JP via aaahfooey on Wed, 15 Oct. 2008
The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes.In the year 2020, the Mexican president decides to defy USA with a couple of defiant policy declarations. In retaliation, Mexico's communications networks, provided by contractors who are fronts for US government departments, are suspended. In the ensuing confusion, Mexico's top politicians and king-makers revert to the written (or recorded in readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Wed, 15 Oct. 2008
The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes.In the year 2020, the Mexican president decides to defy USA with a couple of defiant policy declarations. In retaliation, Mexico's communications networks, provided by contractors who are fronts for US government departments, are suspended. In the ensuing confusion, Mexico's top politicians and king-makers revert to the written (or recorded in readmore
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Flaubert's *Sentimental Education *was all about a conceited
JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 14 Oct. 2008
Flaubert's Sentimental Education was all about a conceited ass with a smattering of Wertheresque angst who goes on to ignore the great events of his times, aware only of his own vanity as reflected in farcical forays into public life and business and a series of grotesque love affairs. No one else comes off especially well either, and the ones who do seem to have a smideeon of humanity readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 14 Oct. 2008
Flaubert's Sentimental Education was all about a conceited ass with a smattering of Wertheresque angst who goes on to ignore the great events of his times, aware only of his own vanity as reflected in farcical forays into public life and business and a series of grotesque love affairs. No one else comes off especially well either, and the ones who do seem to have a smideeon of humanity readmore
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'It was a stern night landscape. The sound of the freezing of
JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
'It was a stern night landscape. The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indis readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
'It was a stern night landscape. The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indis readmore
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'I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My
JP via aaahfooey on Mon, 22 Sep. 2008
'I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.' - Georges Simenon. More readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Mon, 22 Sep. 2008
'I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.' - Georges Simenon. More readmore
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'..if I am walking through the city and look into one of those
JP via aaahfooey on Mon, 22 Sep. 2008
'..if I am walking through the city and look into one of those quiet courtyards where nothing has changed for decade readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Mon, 22 Sep. 2008
'..if I am walking through the city and look into one of those quiet courtyards where nothing has changed for decade readmore
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*Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids* by Kenzaburo Oe. Set in the
JP via aaahfooey on Wed, 17 Sep. 2008
Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids by Kenzaburo Oe. Set in the second world war, this novel follows the fortunes of a group of teenaged reformatory school boys, evacuated from the city and dragged about the countryside until a village that will take them in is found. When they are finally taken in, an outbreak of disease causes the villagers to flee, leaving the despised group of boys readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Wed, 17 Sep. 2008
Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids by Kenzaburo Oe. Set in the second world war, this novel follows the fortunes of a group of teenaged reformatory school boys, evacuated from the city and dragged about the countryside until a village that will take them in is found. When they are finally taken in, an outbreak of disease causes the villagers to flee, leaving the despised group of boys readmore
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the
JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 16 Sep. 2008
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.-Gustave FlaubertThat's what. readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Tue, 16 Sep. 2008
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.-Gustave FlaubertThat's what. readmore
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*Great Apes* by Will Self.Listen up, you yahoos, there's
JP via aaahfooey on Sun, 14 Sep. 2008
Great Apes by Will Self.Listen up, you yahoos, there's nothing here Jonathan Swift hasn't already said. But Self's tale of a man who wakes up one morning to find himself a chimp in a world of sentient chimps is certainly the coked-up, post-Beat version of the old satirical trope for our times. Lovingly scatalogical depictions of chimp social behaviour hold a funhouse mirror up to our readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Sun, 14 Sep. 2008
Great Apes by Will Self.Listen up, you yahoos, there's nothing here Jonathan Swift hasn't already said. But Self's tale of a man who wakes up one morning to find himself a chimp in a world of sentient chimps is certainly the coked-up, post-Beat version of the old satirical trope for our times. Lovingly scatalogical depictions of chimp social behaviour hold a funhouse mirror up to our readmore
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Twenty years from now they'll be singing they were singing that they were singing sweet home Alabama all summer long
JP via aaahfooey on Sat, 13 Sep. 2008
The only stupider than Kid Rock paying homage to a Lynyrd Skynyrd chestnut by ripping it off and changing the lyrics, while sucking all the guitar jamming and sense of groove out of it is people singing along to said song.Dude, you're singing along to a hit song about singing along to a hit song.Just consider the hall of mirrors of utter pop cultural vapidity your life has become. readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Sat, 13 Sep. 2008
The only stupider than Kid Rock paying homage to a Lynyrd Skynyrd chestnut by ripping it off and changing the lyrics, while sucking all the guitar jamming and sense of groove out of it is people singing along to said song.Dude, you're singing along to a hit song about singing along to a hit song.Just consider the hall of mirrors of utter pop cultural vapidity your life has become. readmore
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Fernando Pessoa's *The Book Of Disquiet *is getting to me,
JP via aaahfooey on Fri, 12 Sep. 2008
Fernando Pessoa's The Book Of Disquiet is getting to me, despite my smug assumptions - I'd thought I was too evolved from the gloomy cuss state to totally appreciate the book's unrelenting pessimism and ironic self-regard. But there are virtuoso passages of rare lyrical beauty, observations that must resonate with the experience of any hapless denizen of any city and, most incredibly, readmore
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JP via aaahfooey on Fri, 12 Sep. 2008
Fernando Pessoa's The Book Of Disquiet is getting to me, despite my smug assumptions - I'd thought I was too evolved from the gloomy cuss state to totally appreciate the book's unrelenting pessimism and ironic self-regard. But there are virtuoso passages of rare lyrical beauty, observations that must resonate with the experience of any hapless denizen of any city and, most incredibly, readmore
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