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Cool, I have your number. I also might be able to crash at my friend Nick's house, I just remembered.

xpost

― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having trouble making it through Special Topics in Calamity Physics (a work of fiction, if the title was confusing) -- the narrator is just so annoyingly precocious. Maybe if she learns to drop the Daddy-worship, it'll get better.

She doesn't. That book was very annoying.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

(Are we going to get to see her picture in this thread, John?)

Jordan, I'm playing a show tomorrow night but there could be room in the attic here to crash.

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Book-jacket photo still hot:

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2006/10/marisha%20pessl%20better%20silent.jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yup

http://booksense-stores.booksense.com/images/stores/1657/storeevents/pesslweb.jpg

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

it just drove me batshit crazy that he had to simplify every decision to a place where it was so un-nuanced that it was hardly worth discussing anymore

uh oh i think i just had a moment of awful self-recognition

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

*shivers*

*decides to forget*

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh wow.

beartrap to mr. que.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

man, i CAN NOT WAIT until it's warm and women aren't buried under layers of wool and gortex and hats and scarves. hope springs fucking eternal, even in the face of history and reason.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait either.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

pessl is cute, but in person not nearly as much

http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/archives/bookread.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

That's probably just a bad pic. She's cute, just kind of teethy.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://duranduran.no/cms/images/stories/nu_shooz-i_cant_wait.jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

also, i have it on good authority that she's a whiny over-entitled bitch

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

nice, dude. real nice.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i should not repeat second hand stories, i don't guess, but one hears things

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

i guess maybe you should repeat it, for the benefit of mankind

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

It's hard, because I want to give her the benefit of the doubt of writing a *character* who lacks self-awareness re: her own pretentiousness, but I keep suspecting that Pessl drops all these literary/cinematic references specifically to show off how erudite she (the author) is.

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

xpost nah, i'd mess it up

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

but I keep suspecting that Pessl drops all these literary/cinematic references specifically to show off how erudite she (the author) is.

Also: her references got really really old after awhile, and it's a long book.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

The damn thread is still in italics past a certain post if you load all the answers.

― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

TONIGHT'S GONNA BE AWKWARD FEST 2007!

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

How so?

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

a confluence of people and situations and suspicions and accusations and recriminations and petty jealousies and drugs in the confines of ronny's.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

neat!

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

no. not neat. the more i think about it the less neat it gets. but i'm going anyway.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like a line from a Paul Simon song.

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

AWKWARD FEST ~~2007~~1996!

S.L.M.P.N.

― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Simon's "a confluence of people and situations and suspicions and accusations and recriminations" is a classic!

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

and with every email in it gets more and more convoluted. if i play my cards right i won't even get punched out in all this.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure you can arrange for someone else to get punched out, there's certainly no shortage of candidates.

― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

petty jealousies and drugs
in the confines of Ronny's

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'll get your back if need be.

― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

negotiations and punch-outs
are often mistaken
for one and the same

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

She said "Don't I know you from the T&G 25th weekend?"

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

this work?

http://lh3.google.com/image/kevin.rys/Rh5fuhKyhvI/AAAAAAAAABU/LcoRYB2oE1g/s144/C%3A%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5Cvhahinrysk%5CMy%20Documents%5CMy%20Pictures%5Cimage002.jpg

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure you can arrange for someone else to get punched out, there's certainly no shortage of candidates.

laurel otm.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

it's really not my habit to intrude
and furthermore i hope my meaning won't be lost of misconstrued
but i'll ask, at the risk of seeming rude

wtf is this all about, kevin?

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm afraid to visit you ppl in Chi now. so much DRAMA.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Dr. M, nobody knows anything about this except for Kevin and Laurel.

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

fist fight are good for you. Haven't you seen fight club?

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to do a "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" homage, but Kevin and Laurel and hard names to rhyme.

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

xpost itisamystery.gif

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/images/Frankenstein-headshot-smaller.jpg

FIST FIGHT ... GOOOOOD!

― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

make fun of my typos, go ahead. GO AHEAD, LAUGH AT THE DUMMY.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

it's just a weird thing that happened with this dude who didn't take the break up with his girlfriend as well as she did. i had a crush on her before they met and in fact was the one who introduced them. then something else happend. flash forward to last wednesday the dude got pissy and tried to goad me into hitting him. coming into town will be another dude who got friendly with the pissy dude's ex. he'll be playing a show on the same bill with the pissy dude's band which is being put on by the girl's current and past interest. it's a fucked up situation and i'm taking myself out of it by not going.

the end.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

and i really shouldn't air my dirty laundry here.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

note to self.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

why does getting laid have to get so weird?

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

I washed my laundry last night.

That sounds crazy, Kevin. When I go to bed at night, I have a tendency to think OH MY GOD my life is so crazy and overwhelming and when will it all calm down?! And then NIck reminds me I'm just being silly and that I do that every night.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

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