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I'm obsessed with porches - what a good idea!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

It feels Southern there kind of after the snow melts, with large graceful trees and dirt tracks.

HAHA'S PIZZA

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

my significant OTHER, Jane, went to Antioch.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Ohio seems to have a high number of good colleges. Or is it me?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

antioch is a bit like the island of misfit toys.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

i went to oberlin.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

deej went to wooster.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

one of my friends from HS, Er1n, went to antioch and promptly got molested by the dude who was selling her vicodin.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

I know! with Karen O!

xxp

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

liz phair and john mcentire also went to oberlin and possibly dated, or so i hear.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

haha

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

pleasant plain's book has a character called wing biddlebaum. i can't read anything set in the UK. SORRY. i was 1/2 way through 'my search for patty hearst' before i had to return it to the library (late anyway). before that i finished a book called 'RX' which i liked a lot but would only be of interest to people who like novels about girls taking drugs. its practically a genre, you know. right now im reading 'readymade'. the magazine, not the book of the magazine. i need something new.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

i can't read anything set in the UK

wtfingf, dude?!?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

at first i thought you meant pleasant plains WROTE a book!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

My wife wrote a book.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

i can't read anything set in the UK
wtfingf, dude?!?
-- Adamrl (adamr...) (webmail), Today 11:19 AM. (nordicskilla) (later)

dreary, yeah?

SORRY

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Fair enough. I accept your sweeping generalization. We all make them!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Also your husband is a d00d, so you know, fair play to him.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

oh, i am also reading "Free Jazz" by Eckcherardttdstf Jost.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Was it a children's book, Adam? Not that I'm judging anything from it, just wondering.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Sarah's book? No, it is a "chick lit" novel. You are thinking that because she used to work in children's books!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

i came to friend's "beat generation" course once for a screening of some film, and the prof asked me if i was into the beats. i said "not so much" and he said "oh, are you more into, like, chick lit?"

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

i am decidedly not into chick lit

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

chick lit is for MOMS.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

hahaha! so not true.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

there is a special category of chick lit for moms, called Mom Lit. The Red Tent, Lovely Bones, that one about the Bees, etc. i know this because of my mom's book club.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

i think my mom reads that stuff, maybe even my dad. i really can't tell what's chick lit and what's not anymore.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that is way more "On The Money".

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Adam, what was she doing in children's books?? Inquiring kids' lit publishing minds want to know!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm talking like contemporary women's fiction about relationships and shit. The stuff you see 20something gals in fancy boots reading on BART. Anyway, I think her book is good but I would say that. It's with two agents right now and I would pray for it if I were in any way religious.

xp
She worked for a "boutique" children's publisher in London, then she worked for horrible college textbook publisher, now she is assistant to big literary agent who does mostly non-fiction, some movie stuff.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

How was the boutique house to work for? I have thought of going that route...

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

shopaholic & sister?
the devil wears prada? xpost

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

my mom loves david sedaris, is he chick lit? i don't really know anything about him, mostly because i am a snob

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

no, he's not really chick lit. he's always on This American Life, reading passages from his books in a nasal voice.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

David Sedaris is not chick lit. Ian has it in two.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Also, Caitlin, I think that makes your mom pretty cool.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

my mom is cool, sometimes.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

(yay, i was looking forward to jack cole posting to this thread.)

i love love love most of the bands in reynolds book but can't bring myself to read it. i don't have a well thought out reason why other than i think i'm getting totally burnt out on music-related writing. (disturbing considering that i write about music a wee bit. getting burnt out on that too. getting burnt out on just about everything tho.)

i went to elementary school in ohio. it's a quality place to learn to cross the street on your own. it's where i started my addiction to elephant ears too.
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

The Lovely Bones is a horrible book.

that one about the Bees

There are two. Bee Season and The Secret Life of Bees. I think one is supposed to be more okay than the other, but I can't tell them apart.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

it's where i started my addiction to elephant ears too.

OH MY GOD yes absolutely. You know they don't have elephant ears in the Tri-State area/Jersey Shore, right? They have funnel cakes, instead, which I just don't like as well. And then up in Boston and related parts I'm told they have "fried dough", which doesn't seem terribly specific but then I've never tried it. I have elephant ears once a year at a certain festival in September, only time I can find 'em.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

all lit is chick lit

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

How was the boutique house to work for? I have thought of going that route...

she loved it

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

yeah, when we moved to upstate ny i was pretty pissed off at the whole funnel cake thing.

i'm thinking fried dough might actually be elephant ears, but i've never tried that either.

usually i just placate my needs with a cinnamon twisty donut. sort of a methadone treatment, but...

okay, i'm gonna have to leave the office now.
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

in rhode island we have "dough boys."

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

i was 1/2 way through 'my search for patty hearst'

this book was so disappointing! more patty and martha mitchell, less memoit PLEASE.

i got an elephant ear at my local diner. which is tri-state area.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Roze, I'd ask you to mail me one but the lovely greasy crunch would suffer, I think. Do they offer apple-cinnamon topping? MY FAVORITE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

books about the web are OUT OF DATE AKA "TIRED"

So's the web site I work on but am I authorized to change that? nope...

Also reading: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159253192X.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

It's OK, could've used a good copy editor on the theory section, but I plan on returning it to Borders after reading through anyways.

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

i dont think of the fall as punk

or postpunk

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 10 March 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

I liked the SR book, but I can't be bothered to get upset if something is deemed punk or post-punk or what have you, so maybe that's why?

I think once I finish the current batch of library books, I'm going to get the Peter Shapiro book, and read all the disco/dance books mentioned on the ILM thread. Except the Mel Cheren book, 'cause my library system doesn't have it. (But they do have the Albert Goldman!)

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 10 March 2006 01:09 (twenty years ago)

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