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Shadow Valley Condoms. If you lived here, you'd be home now.

fidelio, you beat me to it!

any chance Seattle based readers of your forum and other fans could meet with you during your sojourn here?

When I lived in the south, I absorbed a few colorful phrases. One was, "he's so ugly his mom had to tie a porkchop around his neck to get the dog to play with him." There's some application here.

Advice please. I have a first edition Wizard of Oz w/ the Densmore illustrations that was much loved by my mother and then by me both a very long time ago. A friend last night told me that I should have it rebound. Won't that destroy part of the value? The binding cover on the spine has split off halfway but there are no pages falling out.

Thanks for your thoughts.

For those of us in Seattle, who have no chance of being an attendee, could there be an opportunity for a get together nonetheless?

More generally, someone was lamenting the loss of competition in newspapers in NYC today, saying that pre-'63 strike there were many, many more choices you could make, but now there's just a few.

I think that is, in part, why the internet took off. Lack of choice/pov in the MSM. And if net neutrality is not protected, we will eventually end up just like the newspapers--big, bad, and few.

protected static and Janet Croft:

Versailles, KY is down the road apiece from Athens, KY (pronounced w/ a long 'a').

11 years ago the office I worked in hosted a group of Belarussians. They came to Wa state to learn about the capitalist society and we were their hosts. I remember a visit to Costco, where surrounded by a warehouse full of goods, they asked the Costco representative what they did when someone bought all the goods up.

But I digress. This group brought with them suitcases full of vodka which they shared with all who entertained them. They also brought in their suitcases bacon lard (which caused the police dogs at the airport to go absolutely wild) because it was their belief that if they ate the bacon lard first, they could drink as much vodka as they needed to w/o ill effect. Must have worked, b/c while the rest of us were spinning after a few snifters, they were going til very late in the evening. The singing was the best.

Oh, and may I reommend this piece from daily kos on the Albigensian crusades?

Albigensian Crusades.

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I understand it's pretty hot in TX these days. And dry too.

Thank you for this distraction from real life. Fashion perhaps has a purpose beyond what its supporters envisaged.

Belated best wishes for an important milestone. Your work both here and with your authors has brought me great joy. I hope some is reflected back to you.

Blew through Spin last night in record time. Reminded me a small bit of A Mote in God's Eye. not sure why.

But one quibble. (and minor spoiler warning)

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I didn't get the sense that Simon, Diane's first husband, was the cult leader. He seemed to be more of a follower. Guess I'll have to go back and look it up.

Dave Kuzminski:

Re can art. When I was at Macalester College in the early 70's a couple of 'proto geeks' built a pipe organ out of coke cans. They called it a Cokenfloete, and it worked! IIRC, they got at least one tv appearance out of it.

I remember hearing Dire Straits for the first time in the fall of 78. Stopped me in my tracks but as i was living in Brussels, it took a while to find out who the group was. The Police were big. As were Talking Heads. But I was still going to Dead and Bruuuuuce concerts, after I returned to the states in 79.

BTW, and utterly off onto another topic, I was hoping that our hosts would have some comments on the James Frey brou ha ha particularly wrt the actions of his agent and editor... I found the following elsewhere, but think that more could be said.

http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/

I adore Booth Tarkington and am so glad to see him well represented here. I've also read Gene Stratton Porter as a child, and note there was one Frances Hodgson Burnett book on the list (anyone remember Little Lord Fauntleroy setting a fashion of long hair for boys at the end of the 19th century?).

I'm surprised by all the Winston Churchill books in the early 20th century. Must check that out. And then, Rafael Sabatini. I am told that anyone who is a fan of Dorothy Dunnett must read Sabatini.

Thank you for a wonderful treasure trove of book information. Off to the library for me!

When I was growing up in Defiance, Ohio, there was a local undertaker's whose two principals were Stick and Frye.

I just deposed an orthopedist named Dr. Ricketts two weeks ago.

One of the attorneys in my office is named Rusty Fallis.

A guy I went to law school with was named Dick Downey.

That's all I can remember at present.

my son is rereading A Song of Ice and Fire before beginning Vol 4 of the opus. Last night, he looked up about halfway through Game of Kings to say, "That scene was so good. (It's one involving Arya being chased into hiding into some forgotten dark tunnels, he said) If I ever write a book, I want to put a scene like that in it." Somehow seems to fit w/in the general subject matter of this thread.

This is absolutely great! I've been missing the renegade freeway signs that were posted around the country (mostly on the coasts) prior to the 2004 elections. Maybe Howard can give the Democrats a spine.

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