Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I spent some time book shopping this weekend and picked up one long-awaited item, the new novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, whose Pulitzer-winning "Interpreter of Maladies" was among the most magnificent short story collections I've ever read. Also the new novel by Chuck Pahlaniuk, which sort of fits in this poll and sort of doesn't.

Which leads me to this poll. What book do you most want to see published? Based on either topic, author, or whatever, but what is the book you look for whenever you browse in a store?

George RR Martin has three books called "The Song of Ice and Fire" series. I can't wait for the fourth. I look for new Dave Duncan books too, and to a lesser extent, more space opera crap from Lois McMaster Bujold. And any good new bridge books.

In response to yesterday's poll about the most amazing thing you've ever seen, I think mine is when I played in a national bridge event and my partner came down with a 29 point hand, something like

Ax
AKQx
AKx
AKQ

We mis-bid it and wound up in six spades, but ended up winning the event anyways.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
In other news, I'm only 20% lazy. 96% of people are lazier than me, and only 2% of people are less lazy. Someone be ready to catch my SO when I tell her this.

I could tell by the running dinosaur.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
So how come you are not named Zoyd Wheeler?

'Cause I can't imagine having a daughter named Frenesi? Because I don't have any faith that I'd be rescued from the next Brock Vond? Because I'd rather dodge rockets than jump through windows? Dunno. But I think Vineland is wildly underappreciated.

And clearly you missed all of the allusions I make in my posts about huge rolling cheeses.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
George RR Martin has three books called "The Song of Ice and Fire" series. I can't wait for the fourth.

That too, but it's been pushed back so many times I am starting to think it doesn't actually exist at all.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Most authors that I really look for bring out at least one new book a year, and sometimes three (that go together) in three months!

Let me amend my poll to say that updates on Erisa authority do not count.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Let me amend my poll to say that updates on Erisa authority do not count.

Very funny. Madeleine Hunter, Jo Beverley, Mary Jo Putney, Mary Balogh etc. may not even know what ERISA is. Madeleine Hunter has three (3) books coming out before the end of the year.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
'Cause I can't imagine having a daughter named Frenesi? Because I don't have any faith that I'd be rescued from the next Brock Vond? Because I'd rather dodge rockets than jump through windows? Dunno. But I think Vineland is wildly underappreciated.

And clearly you missed all of the allusions I make in my posts about huge rolling cheeses.

I was sufficiently underwhelmed that I never finished it. Got about 1/2 way through. But Frenesi is a fine name, and the jumping through windows I kind of liked.

Sometime I'll tell you my own, personal, huge rolling cheese story. I did survive, but it wasn't a foregone conclusion. Crazy kids. (Edited to add, I should also tell you my story about the cheese pig, even if it's not quite as good as the huge rolling cheese story. Ah, the power of Cheese!)


Perhaps what's most surprising about the huge rolling cheese story is that I decided it wasn't the strangest thing I've ever seen. I'm still thinking about that one.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
In response to yesterday's poll about the most amazing thing you've ever seen, I think mine is when I played in a national bridge event and my partner came down with a 29 point hand, something like

Ax
AKQx
AKx
AKQ

We mis-bid it and wound up in six spades, but ended up winning the event anyways.

What's more amazing is that he only had 12 cards and you still made the contract.



Flinty, the Contract Bridge Timmy.

[str8outavannuys]

It was four years ago, give me a break.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Most authors that I really look for bring out at least one new book a year, and sometimes three (that go together) in three months! If more than a couple years go by with no new books, I usually forget who the authors are and rely on friends/relatives to pick up the books and then lend them to me.

Edited to say that if Dorothy Dunnett weren't dead, I'd be looking forward to a new series from her. Her stuff is not nearly as trashy as a lot of stuff I read. But she's dead. There's one book of hers I haven't read because I accidentally sent it to my parents' house when I ordered it and now I have to wait until I see them to get it.

Antonia Frasier, Tim Severin and Bryce Courtenay. Works by Severin and Courtenay are hard to find in the States. Severin's older works are out of print and Courtenay's stuff is rare in the States, amazon.com only lists The Power of One.

Can anyone recommend a good mystery or historical fiction series? I've gone through all the Dorothy Sayers, Elizabeth George, Dorothy Dunnett, and Conan Doyle among others. I'm looking for something new for hibernation season.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Good thing, too, because [Darryl Hannah] can't act.

Who else could play these two roles as well as she?:





Thurgreed(those shattering televisions in Splash -- not special effects)Marshall

[ias_39]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

How come no one in Texas has brought up Jerry Jones? He is fucking creepy.

Banging Penske? Even his more outre socks don't swing that way.

[ias_39]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter

Relationship status bears little relation to turgidity.

"Tumescence" is more apropos, used among other places in the Denzel flick "Virtuousity"

[ias_39]

Originally posted by bilmore

I think that what most people don't get until they're in their thirties is that you are still exactly the same person at 30+ as you were at 17.

I've noticed a positive correllation between age and both composure and impulse control. Apparent IQ too, which is why sophisticated tests adjust for age.

Physically, I've noticed a positive correlation between age and the speed with which cardio condition worsens without exercise and the time it takes to improve.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
You have replaced Atticus on my crush list. I think I love you.

It's funny, but I can only see you as a combination of these two things:



TM