walk him and pitch to the giraffe.

thanks for posting the link, i had forgotten it.

edit into nothingness

"I hope their check clears."

hereafter use the words "bad mistake" when describing things like this, damn.

top 'o the spheroid, ma. top o' the spheroid.

SPOILERS!!!!!  DAMN IT! SPOILERS!

i thought it went well with coffee brandy. but what the hell its a long winter in Maine.

99% of the time this is the best advice in 99% of any situations.

finished Blood Meridian, Prague Cemetery and a bio of James Buchanan last month. started a bio of U.S. Grant and The Last Empty Places. decided to pull Guns, Germs, and Steel off the shelf and try to get through it, last time was a failure. may read it along with The Better Angels of our Nature, just to play with my…

he's dead.

Major League gets trotted out for viewing before the start of every baseball season, but i think Bull Durham is the best sports movie.

i read that three times as "She-Vampires of the GTO". excuse me, but i have the weirdest erection right now, gotta go.

BTW, in the movie the dad and uncle are twins, which is why they could get away with casting the same actor.

from another unnamed website:
What did the Mama character look like on set? Was a lot of her CG?No, no, most of it wasn't CG. We had this amazing Spanish actor performer who was Mama. His name is Javier Botet. He has this insane body — he's like the skinniest guy I've ever seen, and very long-limbed. Then they had the…

hey it took almost 4 months to get through "Infinite Jest" and and if this is like any other Pynchon, except "Crying of lot 49",  4 months would be a walk in the park. i mean fuck, M&D got thrown into the corner several times where it sat for periods of time. and it looks like "Better Angels" will require lots of side…

ahhh fuck, this fucks up my whole reading year. i've already got Blood Meridian, Better Angels of our Nature, the Last Empty Places and a bio of president Grant on the  to be read table. when the fuck will i have time to read Pynchon and still have anything like a life?

i sold Grit.

i sold Grit.

"Better Angels" is on my list for next year. several folk have recommended it, but have said it is a tough read. any thoughts, Pugs?