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Lakeland Local /////////////////////////////////////////// Pole Snow Job II Posted: 31 Jan 2008 12:46 AM CST http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LakelandLocal/~3/226315181/pole-snow-job-ii.html I was asked this evening if the Pole Attachment Fee story wasn't old news. It is in a way, the controversy...

H. P. L.

Vita e opere di Ornello le-Comte, 5

Nessun discorso critico su Ornello le-Comte può prescindere dalla figura di Getulio Rambaron. Il giornalista rilesse la frase e si concesse un sogghigno prima di cancellarla. Gli scappavano ancora frasi del genere, dopo tutto quel tempo. Frasi adatte forse ad un libro serio, non certo ad un...

steph g

i <3 lists.

Books I Read in 2007: 1. Until I Find You, John Irving 2. Love is a Mix Tape, Rob Sheffield 3. Dangerous Angels, Francesca Lia Block 4. Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino 5. Get in the Van, Henry Rollins 6. How to Kill a Rock Star, Tiffanie DeBartolo 7. City of Falling Angels, John Berendt 8. Prep,...

LittleGreenBook

Book #055: Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...*

Synopsis: "Oskar Schell is not your average nine-year-old. A budding inventor, he spends his time imagining wonderful creations. He also collects random photographs for his scrapbook and sends letters to scientists. When his father dies in the World Trade Center collapse, Oskar shifts his boundless...

medellia

Anger is a Gift

I thought about it for a bit, and in the end it seemed that at the very least Rage deserved its own post. If I hadn't been up front, I may have posted an entry about each song because they were that good. So. Coachella. Day Three. Coachella Stage. 22:40-0:00. Best eighty minutes of my musical life....

Vincent Goes to Yokohama

no chance of boredom

Hey everyone. Here is another update. I’m playing Surreal Life the home game still and its not feeling normal just yet. Today I arrived to a third grade class to find one boy with his pants completely off and his shirt hanging on by one button. The curtains to one window parted and a boy smiled...

Sir2You

Wise Sayings (not, mostly, mine)

'When I die, I want to go sleeping peacefully, like my grandfather did. Not screaming like the passengers in his car...' Unknown 'Women don't pursue MEN who pursue THEM.' David DeAngelo 'One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.' D.H. Lawrence 'The...

YGRS

I was tagged &:o) (I'm not a very good runner...)

I was tagged by Dewi CasGwent over the weekend, in Literary Tag. I blame it on these damned heels I'm wearing PLUS I haven't been feeling too peppy lately... But anyway. Be prepared to be bored. I'm at work plugged into a phone with no time to read anything worth discussing NOR being intellectually...

smaru

Pretty - Rose Mcgowan

- Wallpapers of Pretty Actress Rose Mcgowan - Rose McGowan Profile - Name : Rose McGowan Birth date : September 5, 1973 Birth place : Florence, Italy Height : 5' 3'' Nationality : Italian Profession : Actress, model Rose McGowan Biography - Rose McGowan was born in Florence, Italy in 1975 and was...

belliebean

Bored?

This was my "big" research paper for American Lit. Not great, and it definitely trails off toward the end (fatigue sets in at 3am even for the caffeinated) but I'm tired of working hard on things only one person will ever read. So if you want to get my take on the modern male protagonist, you go...

The Girl in the Mismatched Suit

Books to Read Before You Die

"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble The Plot Against America –...

Sara

America's "Christian" Traditions: A Rant

This blog is a direct response to Timothy's post about the ACLU and the case against school-sanctioned prayer at the U.S. Naval Academy. Disclaimer No. 1: This is not directed at Timothy himself. Though he and I disagree more than we agree, he has always shown respect and courtesy in our...

ancora impara

Modern Library Top 100

Taking this parameter of the top 100 books from Hapa Love. She suggests using the Modern Library list. So, here goes: 1) Bold: I have read. 2) Italics: Those I intend to read. 3) Underline: Books I love. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school...

HapaLove

More than 6?

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. This is going around my neighborhood, and I really like the idea of encouraging people (including myself) to read the classics. However, I'm changing the game, because I prefer the Modern Library's...

Jeff D

More than 6?

I saw this on Hapalove's blog and decided to play along just to see how many I'd read. I'm also going to add another category: "Never heard of it" By my count I've read 26 of them. 1. 1922 Ulysses James Joyce (got about 20 pages in, did not have the endurance for more) 2. 1925 The Great Gatsby F....

Gregg Belisle- Chi

A midsummer night's Ramble

Cup # 1 Introduction I'm thinking of a number between one and twenty- it's a hypothetical number not yet known to me...but rather to be determined. I don't seem to recall what time it is, but I think it's about 8:30 p.m. on Friday the 25th of May, 2007. On this evening I'm sitting on the right wing...

KneeBlog

Slaughterhouse Five 1972 1:43

I finally got around to this classic based on the book by Kurt Vonnegut which I thoroughly enjoyed. I am told the movie very closely follows the book which I have never read. I should also state I am no fan of science fiction and never was a Trekkie or followed Star Wars yet the science fiction...

Soup

Culture QotD: Magazines Don't Count.

One in four American adults read NO books last year. How many did you read? I can't remember. I found some new favorites, though. In particular: 1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 2. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac 3. Junky by William S. Burroughs 4. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt...

Yasmine

Great Moments in Literature #1

On his second day. Billy was cleaning behind a radiator, and he found a spoon. To his back was a vat of syrup that was cooling. The only other person who could see Billy and his spoon was poor old Edgar Derby, who was washing a window outside. The spoon was a tablespoon. Billy thrust it into the...

Oaktree

Inspiring Me :)

Nelson Mandela “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a...