Michael Gray on anything (and anyone) other than the objective facts of Bob Dylan's life, especially in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia.
Camille Bacon-Smith's Science-Fiction Culture. She engages in vast theoretical generalizations and presents as fact whatever was told to her by her last interviewee: actual research on living subjects is an undiscovered country to her.
His brother Marvin has Crohn's Disease, so GW has probably been having his colon checked for a while.
An older generation of medical pros, particularly psychiatrists, still think Inflammatory Bowel Disease is all in yer head. Which shows that they too possess the anatomical confusion alluded to here.
In my case, trying to emulate the great Justine Larbalestier. Maybe she gets around.
Apologies for relapsing into old drive-by correction habits, but I hope, being PNH, you'll understand the compulsion:
Perlstein.
Now back to policing the web for "Delaney"s.
I just don't see the Robert Earl Keen connection. "The Road Goes on Forever and the Party Never Ends" is a highly ironized misogynist anthem in the tradition of "Betty and Dupree." "Vincent" is, like "I Feel So Good", "Read About Love", "Gethsemane", "Killing Jar", and several other RT songs, going back to the Sixties, about how masculine ideals destroy men who take them seriously. Thompson's having been a liberal hippiesque son of a cop is probably relevant here. It's like another Thompson, Jim, whose novels say "You don't get it, Chandler: it's not the women who are doing us in, it's our own illusions." The focus on male psyches may leave the women little more than cyphers, but they're usually not stigmatized.
Butch Thompson's first name is indeed Richard: that confused me for years.
You know, all of these precepts will be made law if Bush has his way and puts John Roberts and Tony Barrand on the Supreme Court.
What?
Oh.
Never mind.
Dan H-- The slow-witted Abominable Snowman's references to "George" and to "wanting a bunny rabbit" allude, I'd guess, to the Steinbeck novella and play Of Mice and Men, a story nowhere near as kind to the mentally disabled as the Faulkner novel.
I'm not sure that Katherine Harris's retaining the support of her constituents is a strong part of an argument for unexceptionable conduct on her part --am I right that many of the thousands of Floridians who were scrubbed from the voter rolls don't have a say in that? No doubt someone here has followed that issue more closely than I --just thought it should be brought up in the context of the legitimacy of W's electoral victory.
I've known one or two non-voters who did good political work in their communities. But it was rare that such people tried to claim a moral high ground on the basis of non-voting. They just regarded the process with a mournful sense of futility, having been worn down by seeing their ideals so often defeated. Surely that's a state of mind many of us have been tempted by.
On the other hand, the student Marxist-Leninist Organization where I used to live (which had, I should acknowledge, done some good work in mobilizing people to call attention to social injustices) once plastered the campus with flyers to the effect that you must refrain from voting, but to refrain from voting won't do you any good if it's prompted by apathy: you must actively refrain from voting, and do it for the right reasons. How can one interpret that gibberish except as the manifestation of a belief that when the milennium comes, you'll be judged by your purity of heart? ("Back then, it was the genius of the Stalinist mindset to reduce every political discussion to an argument about motives" --Saul Bellow)
Hope you improve with alacrity, Teresa. Heck of a way to spend Purim.
But . . . but . . . they have Evil Chemistry and Evil Biology in those countries. I mean, the War on Foreigners can't hurt science, because all major scientific and medical discoveries are made here in the Land of the Free by good ol' American Know-How.
Seriously, I know people who think that way. On the other hand, university science departments, who know how much of science involves international collaboration, have been pretty alarmed for a good while now.
Pericat --you can't label them "tea": it's a non-caffeine culture as well, IIRC.
There's a physician in Tenafly named Dr. Malseptic.
. . . and are afraid that resurrected men will use them for indecent purposes?
Randolph--
. . . . and his mom. If there's one thing I was persuaded of by Franken's book, it's that Babs Bush and her beautiful mind do not conform to the persistent myth that she's the nice one in the family.
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