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Replaced_Texan · 06-13-2005, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Maybe he was joking? Because otherwise, I think he's too stupid to be your friend.

I don't think so. It's possible that he was trying to shock me by talking about anal sex, but he knows me well enough to know that I'm not going to get the vapors when he talks about ass play.

ltl/fb · 06-13-2005, 04:55 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I don't think so. It's possible that he was trying to shock me by talking about anal sex, but he knows me well enough to know that I'm not going to get the vapors when he talks about ass play.

Then that is really disturbing. It has caused a frown to crease my brow.

Replaced_Texan · 06-13-2005, 04:58 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
Is it depressing? I remember trying to read something called "Rachel and Her Children" about homeless families in New York, and I had to put it down.

I realize that this is not a good attitude. Nonetheless, that's the way I am. Probably because I am a large and lazy breed.

An excerpt.

06-13-2005, 05:00 PM

I am sooooooooooooooo excited. I haven't followed this closely. Are people thinking its an acquittal?

06-13-2005, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
Is it depressing? I remember trying to read something called "Rachel and Her Children" about homeless families in New York, and I had to put it down.

I realize that this is not a good attitude. Nonetheless, that's the way I am. Probably because I am a large and lazy breed.

It will make you glad you never had to go through the New York City shelter system, which might brighten your day. But the people she follows through their rounds are living and complicated and engaging, so you're not constantly thinking about How Much American Capitalism Sucks while you read it. It's not polemic, or a screed. Or a jeremiad.*

And you are a large and lazy breed. Just remember where all the bombs are and you'll be alright.

*So rarely the chance to use in a sentence fragment. Sorry.

06-13-2005, 05:03 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
"Just for the record, I yelled at Gavin Newsom,'' she said. "I told him off. How dare him say anything about my family?"

She's Jamaican?

Anne Elk · 06-13-2005, 05:05 PM

Not.

Katie Holmes is converting to Scientology.

Hank Chinaski · 06-13-2005, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Then that is really disturbing. It has caused a frown to crease my brow.

You do realize, don't you, that if you do make a love connection with a death row guy, his prior relationship will likely have included anal rape?

Replaced_Texan · 06-13-2005, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Then that is really disturbing. It has caused a frown to crease my brow.

I was disturbed too. And very glad that I've never had sex with him.

Shape Shifter · 06-13-2005, 05:07 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Maybe he was joking? Because otherwise, I think he's too stupid to be your friend.

Was he a philosophy major?

06-13-2005, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Oh, and to do TM's job for him, since I'm all about grabbing his torch (ba dum bum):

Translation: I want you all to think I'm really smart.

I would have gone with "Taxwonk is retarded," but since you're the designated torch-grabber and all it's your call.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 06-13-2005, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Not.

Katie Holmes is converting to Scientology.

What is the position of Scientology on Abstinence?

dtb · 06-13-2005, 05:09 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I heard an interview with the author when the book first came out, and it sounded fascinating. I think it's on my Amazon wish list. There are about 200 books on my Amazon wish list.

ETA: I also read an interview with the author in Salon.com.

I'll move it up to top of the queue now.

You won't be disappointed. Imagine -- a book that can even make a badass like Ironweed a little verklempt.

I'm not done with it yet (not for lack of trying -- if I had had a solid block of uninterrupted time, I could've finished it this weekend), and it is about people in poverty -- but I don't see it as a despairing or unrelentingly depressing book.

And Ironweed, apparently Boy George (whom the author first met at his trial) spoke openly to her on the condition that she would tell no one anything if he were acquitted, or that he would kill her.

I've been reading various interviews with her on the internet today.

ltl/fb · 06-13-2005, 05:13 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
You do realize, don't you, that if you do make a love connection with a death row guy, his prior relationship will likely have included anal rape?

You do realize, don't you, that I am on a quest for MFM? So that's actually kind of hot, except for the raping part. Maybe it was more friendly.

Anyway, I am being pro-condom so I don't see why that would not go along with what I was saying.

Mister_Ruysbroeck · 06-13-2005, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Was he a philosophy major?

I'm not RT's friend.

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