TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

i heard in yoga class once that if you lie with your legs in the air it will help you sleep. i mean, not in an exercise way, you just slide your butt to the edge of the bed and rest your legs up against the wall and let everything decompress.

my ex used to hold his arm up in the air because he said it would the effort would tire him out enough to sleep.

xpost wilter you obviously have not really listened to enya

she is my secret shame :/

You are not alone:

by Ned Raggett

Ned's been lovingly clowned about this on another thread, right? I'm not trying to get all personal on an internet dude here.

hey JOHN JUSTEN WE HAVE SIX BOOKS IN COMMON according to librarything:

Books you share (6)

See in library

1984 by George Orwell

The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

The Crying Of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Libra by Don DeLillo

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson

except i don't have 'nine stories' so i don't know where librarything got that information. i do have 'franny and zooey' and 'seymour: an introductions' and 'raise high the roofbeam carpenters' and 'to esme, with love and squalor'.

that is an excellent review by ned

i also share 6 books with neddy-noodles:

Books you share (6)

See in library

Burning Chrome by William Gibson

The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) by Thomas Pynchon

His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

To Kill a Mockingbird (The Folio Society Slipcased Edition) by Harper Lee

I want to read Pynchon. Where i start?

I meant to buy some of his books a few months ago but forgot about it.

i've only read 'lot 49' so not sure about the rest of his stuff. it's a weird but interesting book. i had to read and reread it quite a bit (i read it for a class on literature in the digital age).

LOL all ILXors have copies of Snow Crash.

GO SEE IRON MAN WHY BECAUSE IT IS AWSOME

OKAY I WILL DO ALL THAT FILM WATCHING WHEN THE SUN STOPS SHINING

also I would like to nominate this kid as ITR hero: 13 Year Old Steals Dads Credit Card To Buy Hookers

gravity's rainbow is surely th' only place to start, unless you are not sure you are for long and difficult books -- in which case you might try 49, though it is relatively minor as canon-fodder save for its relevence in high school english classes.

'against the day' is one of the more readable pynchons, though it is sooo long it might offput the staunchest of diahrreaders.

I don't have a copy of Snow Crash and have never read it and have not ready ANY Pynchon and also do not use librarything ;_;

Snow Crash and librarything are both great yay.

http://www.librarything.com/profile/NedRaggett

Ned's been lovingly clowned about this on another thread, right?

I stand by it!

Dude, Tanith Lee????

What?

I mean I'll grant she's a classic case of her books rewriting the same idea eight million ways but her short story collection Dreams of Dark and Light's pretty sharp.

Okay I can get behind her in short story form. Her novels are like sub-Mercedes Lackey nonsense.

Hahah, ouch. But yeah, way hit and miss on that front.

I have never read these, either.

I can claim to have listened to enya, however.

Plz send good vibes to me tonight at 6 pm central time, as I will take my renal/endocrine test at that point. I'm at a total loss as to whether I'm prepared or not. I just want to get it over with at this point.

If I can remember to send good vibes in advance of GOING TO SEE THE CURE LIVE, I certainly will!

Thanks!

And I hope you know that if you send me the good vibes, I will not hate you for all eternity for seeing The Cure tonight while I take a freaking TEST.

I suppose quitting school and running away from home to become a homeless person wouldn't help me see The Cure, either.

I'M TRAPPED ;_;

Ned I adore your Enya love. Watermark is golden and fuck the h8rz.

thank you abbott! i also have shepherd's moon but it's not as good.

time to go to class. ack! i need all this time for projects!!!!

OMG note to ppl ever using excel: put headings in FIRST because if you do it later when you're about to print and find out they run into the content and insert rows ALL your formulas in 3000 different linked up sheets get fuxored. KILL ME

booking flights to SF. Goddamn Atlantic expensive to cross in a hurry

also estela: did you ever get on to the sandbox? It seems to work if you go to http://www.ilxor.com:8090/ILX/

i had a dream last night that the pinefox's real identity was revealed to me, and i was all OOOOOOOOOOO!!! THAT IS INTRIGUEING

stet, it still doesn't work. is safari a problem?

i wish i was going to sf, are you going for fun reasons?

yes! also beer, which is serious business.

Safari shouldn't be. I'll try again to sort you out, 2s.

SF, you say? When exactly?

Chunks of June, until the 19th. Are you about?

estela:this is weird, it all works fine until I try to log in with an "estela" displayname. Still fixin'

side trip to seattle wouldn't cost too much more

guys, this is awesome: nine sacred pearls of vedic wisdom (make sure to scroll down to see pictures)

side trip to seattle wouldn't cost too much more
oh that's an awesom plan

depending on when you come, you got free accomodations here

depending on when you come, you got free accomodations here

<3 ilxors! remy: webmail'd you w/dates. Estela: webmail'd you w/password. Jergins: posted on yr secrit borad

thank you stet<3

hey estela i have a question for you: is american sweet potato the same as kumara?

i'm eating roasted golden kumara right now and thinking how much i'll miss it if sweet potato isn't exactly the same.

it isn't exactly the same. you can't get kumara in australia either. i had an earnest sorrowful discussion on this exact topic on sunday with my sister and my parents and f. luckily we were eating delicious creme brulee with a spiced apple sorbet at the time so we didn't die from grief.

The American sweet potato is a yam.

oh man, i don't really like yams :(

american yams are not the same as nz yams, they are more like kumara than nz yams are, but not exactly like kumara.