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It's been well over a year since I talked about the searches that bring people here--well over a year even since I was keeping really close track. But now the list is, in places, very very old; and it is very very long, so I've no intention of dissecting it--I just want it out of drafts, and the last day of 2007 seems an excellent time to do that.
So... if you're bored tonight.....
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are tonsils porous
"michael chabon"
intuition over facts in the devil and tom walker
vonnegut jailbird quote kissing
stupidramblings
theric
"emotional exhibitionism"
inpostauthor:th
unclear Antecedent
bones in artwork
the famous banana sketch
rubber soul byu idaho
6qu Lewisham
"elder David R. Stone"
read the last conference 176th lds
"David R. Stone"
text i can read from the 176th lds conference
bednar david a 176th general conference
BOCTAE
BOCTAE
BOCTAE
"David R. Stone"
edgy killer bunny
new glasses
mormon mom cast
adonis dvd thirsty running
"The worth of a soul is its capacity to become as God."
44-7040-129-681
"celebrity crush"
hearst castle+canova statue
fuller reasons that you bear a similar last name with my client
ronald a rasband
William Wordsmiths "The world is too much with us"
mr and mrs smith
thmazing
moderation
Jack Black
21 Campshill Road
radio blues
byu
smashed kitten
ronald rasband
ronald rasband
indian food
"traveling metaphors" writers
"all do-us"
blacks did not support phat girlz movie
redheadded jewish
"napoleon dynamite"
raven symone measurements [first page on google for this search! take that, stupid!]
21 Campshill Road scam
Utah Valley Magazine
[[[from someone's email]]]
which school did carole lombard attend
liverpudlians in california
nasal irrigation
"Malcolm In The Middle" animated gifs
CSET
debeers wwII
21 Campshill Road Se13 6qu Lewisham London England.
daltongirl blogspot [[[[Did you mean: dolphingirl blogspot ]]]]
"sam hawk" bsa contact
Juju club torrent
chats on CSET essay questions for subtest II
utah famous for food
wealth and good luck
CSET difficult
http://thmazing.blogspot.com/
21 Campshill Road, SE13 6qu lewisham, london england (I'm #1 on Yahoo!)
21 Campshill Road, SE13 6qu lewisham, london england
apocalypse now song satisfaction free clip
"gospel-sharing home" (I'm #8 and #9 on Yahoo!)
bednar david a. stake conference prophet
21 Campshill Road
"21 Campshill Road" "london"
redheadded jewish girl
child died from drinking poison
slate.com/id/2142547
pictures of romeo drinking poison
sufjan
juliet drinking poison
Holy Ghost Fire joke
romeo mercutio killed
Why was tybalt killed (#1 on Answers!)
thmazing north
cars pixar
"Route 66"
zippermania
thmazing saved world
lds and "grow up unto the Lord
byu
tybalt killed...
http://thmazing.blogspot.com
tybalt killed...
A Person that is eating poop animation (I'm #2 on Google!--june 12, 2006)
when does lady montague die
why didnt benvolio fight tybalt
Ratatoille pixar
nyaa nyaa cute animation
raven symone (take that, stupid!)
president packer
23 campshill road se13 6qu
mercutio killed
"crocodylus niloticus" + "pluvianus aegyptius"
enema
ratatoille animated
enema
enema
enema
enema
tonsils white curds smelly
Gromit confronts
enema
hard white tonsil polyps
comments about the poem of poor richard's almanack
dirty diaper
enema
taurus 2003 "getting out of park"
enema
provo
tonsil curd
176th LDS Conference on Inner Beauty
screensavers of Haley Joel Osment of the movie Home of th Giants
jack steed
melyngoch taylor
toad spit allergy
cset
manila
enema
philip roth
enema
chinhae korea
+44-7040-129-681
"21 Campshill Road Se13 6qu Lewisham London England."
21 Campshill Road, Se13 6qu Lewisham, London, England
enema
21 Campshill Road, Se13 6qu Lewisham, London, England
21 Campshill Road se13 6qu lewisham london england
pus tonsil white spot pop
+44-7040-129-681
link:http://missnemesis.blogspot.com
doctor says wife needs enema
enema
(hit from google images looking for this)(x18)
group sex
(hit from google images looking for this)(x4)
Listerine spring for everyone
sunshine lollipops and rainbows gummy drops
food
21 Campshill Road Se13 6QU Lewisham London England
"manhattan temple" "noise"
free enema squirt
the clash band
"he whom the lord calls"
where can i listen to happily ever after the entire song
"44 7040 129 681"
some one google-imaging found this: http://www.explodingdog.com/dumbpict51/smaller/whatexplode1.gif
tonsil curd
enema bag
who is killed by Tybalt
cset english subtest III
"Raven Symone" pregnant (nod to Stupid here)
Father Son Campout Aaronic
pockets on tonsils to burst
"Ronald Rasband" utah
"like many italic sentences"
O'so krispie hairstyles
Google image to www.kinomania.ru/stars/m/Michael_J_Fox/1024/1.jpg
KVPR a prairie home companion
link:http://missnemesis.blogspot.com
theric shallow (french version of google)
naked women
a beautiful mind movie review
pixar Ratatoille (found using google slovenščina)
Crimenently
"jon magaziner"
google image:www.annexgalleries.com/itemimages/big/Sch102.jpg
"all sousa all the time"
tonsils food caught in
shakespeare "do they not bleed"
Anistony
enema
"Men Who Don't Get Married"
"half moon bay ward"
mechanized wheelchairs
ecasanova
former Sub-Comptroller working with Chevron Texaco Oil United Kingdom
"don't like mcsweeney's
groveling gifts
My late client a former Sub-Comptroller working with Chevron Texaco Oil here in the United Kingdom and had left behind a deposit of Nine Million Eight Hundred Thous
21 campshill london england
Sub-Comptroller working with Chevron Texaco Oil November 2000
ronald a rasband
"difference between if and when (Japanese version of Google)
anthony perkins lds
(Google image) www.annexgalleries.com/itemimages/big/Sch102.jpg
elder bednar
holy crimenently
elder bednar
collection of food in pocket by tonsils
21 Campshill Road
"naked women for cell phones" (the only result for Google!)
Elder Bednar offense
porous tonsils
Raven Symone's apartment roommates (beat that, Stupid!)
"eric w jepson" (this one is certainly mysterious---who IS this guy?!?!)
google image search: www.fernworks.org/images/small/l_5B.jpg
"my new glasses" "picture" "about me" site:blogspot.com
hymns conference 176
"ira fine" raisin
killed by tybalt
killed by tybalt
killed by tybalt
IMAGE: http://welshmeatdirect.com/images/chicken%20drumstick.jpg
killed by tybalt
killed by tybalt
"green libertarian" blogger
"has such a magnetic persona" (Indonesian google)
food caught in tonsils
www.metalandmagic.com piggy
Elder Wirthlin "sunday will come"
Marxism God's Favored Coffee
"brigham young" conference general martin willie handcard
http://3gcs.com
google image search: www.annexgalleries.com/itemimages/big/Sch102.jpg
Food caught in tonsils
why is lord capulet seen as a bully essay
21 Campshill Road London, England
when does juletomten give gifts
porous tonsils (I'm #1!)
Washington Irving Devil and Tom Walker realism or romanticism
"Sesame Street Canon"
ronald rasband all hands on deck our rising generation
the spook house bierce
sap OR blackjack OR cosh "Knocked her out"
three hundre two billion, four million, one hundred six
O'so Krispie hairstyle
Robert Long sub-comptroller with Chevron Texaco Oil
www.metalandmagic.com
zebrano tree
willie and martin mormon handcard company
devious elf
juletomten
elder david a. bednar
masterpiece hitchcock collection costco
google image: http://welshmeatdirect.com/images/chicken%20drumstick.jpg
santas using zebras now [Santa is dead to me. It took a long time, and now that it's over, It Is Over. ... Zebra wood? Since when do trees run away from lions? Butternut indeed! ...] (I'm #10!)
google image: www.fernworks.org/images/small/l_5B.jpg
live chat customer service me i
mercutio killed by Tybalt [I'm #1] [in Canada]
somebody's got a case of the sposita's
o so'krispie hairstyle
superman returns sound editing oscar
cset matrices
hygiene enema bottle funny picture
"joe ranft death" [[[[[RIP]]]]]
scarlet johannsen anti-wrinkle (Dutch Google)
google image: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005N8T1.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg (in what looks like Afrikaans Google)
thmazings thmusings [you lookin for me]
tonsil pores
jesus v santa claus (Portuguese Google)
stephen crane ironist war is kind (page one!)
"i'm a banana" dr. seuss
benji st. george utah thai
thteed (Chinese Yahoo)
penguins frozen yogurt cerritos
tonsil+cheesy+curd
couvade syndrome
link:http://missnemesis.blogspot.com
couvade syndrome
personal attorney/sole executor to the late Engineer Robert
funkadelic wallpaper
http://fobcave.blogspot.com/search?q=svithe (how...?)
"up up and away" wav
"Metropolitan Areas Most Polluted by Short-term Particle Pollution"
image search for http://welshmeatdirect.com/images/chicken%20drumstick.jpg (again)
king kong
the former sub-comptroller working with chevron texaco oil in the united kingdom
ther-ic (polish google)
MySpace Oscar game
http://thecia.com.au/reviews/n/images/napoleon-dynamite-8.jpg (french google image [1] and english google image [3])
asparagus by behr
filmplus.org/03/kane.jpg (google image)
metal albums blogspot
ecasanova
behr outback paint
bitterfilms.com/rejectedbanana-300.jpg (google image[2])
THOMAS JEFFERSON ORANGUTAN (cool!)
"enema in my mouth"
"her new glasses " "picture " site:blogspot.com
porous tonsils (of course)
elder larry w gibbons of the seventy
disney's ratatoille
ronald rasband
oh the worlds a funny place ut yet iy's hard to beat (I'm #1)
A classic horror short story The Seventeenth hole at Duncaster
classic rock deep cuts
www.peggylee.com/pics/peg51a.jpg (google image search for female crooners)
Who sings ooh child in pursuit of happiness?
"what manner of man ought ye to be"
steve bacon bakersfield (that one's awesome)
http://welshmeatdirect.com/images/chicken%2520drumstick (again; google image)
underconcerned parents a problem?
http://www.sanfranciscomemories.com/musee/musee-smaller/hawiilady.JPG (google image search)
beck information album free blogspot
mash up bowie (french google blog search)
elphaba pronunciation
white pus pockets on tonsils
"shaolin soccer" I won't tell
www.pjsinnam.com/bio/images/PI/Manila%20Map.jpg (arabic google image search)
http://www.sanfranciscomemories.com/musee/musee-smaller/hawiilady.JPG (google image)
grrarrarr (I'm #1!)
cardon's formula
Juletomten story
"Creative Writing at BYU"
meaning of the song waiting on th world to change by john mayer
porous tonsils
opinion essays on wicka (Mr Fob is #1!)
http://www.sanfranciscomemories.com/musee/musee-smaller/hawiilady.JPG (again, google image--one english google, one some germanicish google)
google image: http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png - http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png - http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png - http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png - http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png - http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png - http://welshmeatdirect.com/images/chicken%20drumstick.jpg - http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png - http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png - http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png - http://welshmeatdirect.com/images/chicken%20drumstick.jpg - http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png
keith merrill
LDOTFMOTNY (you've come to the right place)
civil war "after the war had ended because"
babylon "summer cottage" maxwell
pursuit of excellence & mormon
Google Image: http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/2522/vlcsnap380508jy9.png (x22 - 1 in Deutch)
keith merrill
Transformers
september dawn
pixar ratatouille
alice keys
book of mormon, it beginneth to taste delicious to me
Robert Hales, made story (from a Korean-language search engine I've never heard of before which is awesome)
site:thmazing.blogspot.com regina
editorgirl
tonsils porous
(and a whole bunch more google image searches--guernica, sick dogs, guts, fir trees, more more more)
lindsay estes cafepress
Andy Burr solicitor
Andy Burr solicitor
HOW TO GIVE AN ENEMA
marxism coffee "god's favored"
site:thmazing.blogspot.com lorem
baby anecdotes (Google NZ)
lady dies at age 60 on 28 june 2007 at l&d (I'm #2!) (Google UK)
people lose testimony lds (terrific) (Google Canada)
Sub-Comptroller working with Chevron Texaco Oil
Sub-Comptroller of Chevron Texaco Oil in the United Kingdom
editorgirl (hi!)
double indemnity
moonpools and caterpillars
"pedro dumba" (from danish google)
fobcave katya
thmazing
Felipithecus (german google)
"tonsil irrigation"
"tick tock clock" "the clock is ticking for you"
ecasanova vegas
bill richards tehachapi (yahoo!)
"Ronald Rasband"
sposita's parking
The board of directors of the company now adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money within the next 15 official working days or forfeit the money as an abandoned (google new zealand)
thmazing
smashed kitten (I'm #1! Yes!)
Barbara Boxer (Google Blog)
Cicada Pleats
http>//singingcicada.blogspot.com
Equiano homecountry (Google Korea)
rulesforareason2.blogspot.com (Technorati)
potter snape christian (Google Blog)
(Google Image: homepage2.nifty.com/~deko/jujuclub/3rd.jpg)
(Google Image: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j90/thmazing/books/FlightVol3.jpg)
Cicada Pleats (yes, again!)
lds general conference uncle fred story (I'm #5)
monson priesthood red hair (I'm #2)
thomas monson "flaming red hair" "can do anything" (I'm the only one!)
president monson dye hair (I'm #2)
president monson's talk, vision, faith, virtue (I'm #1)
lds conference talk flaming red hair (I'm #4)
"door of history turns on small hinges" (I'm #2)
elder cook apostle lds utahn blog (I'm #7)
thomas monson flaming red hair (I'm #1)
monson, red hair, missionary (I'm #2)
PENROSE school thy feelings (I'm #18)
uncircumcised boy (I'm #4 of google blog search)
"scott smith" "the ruins"
foundation and empire asimov (french blogger search)
bacardi rum cake lds general conference (I'm #2)
april 1969 does arthur live? (I'm #*)
procrastination donald l hallstrom (I'm #3)
donald hallstrom priesthood session talk (I'm #6)
circumcised (google blog search)
monson flaming red hair (I'm #2)
eating rat song (I'm #9)
Donald L. Hallstrom Talk (I'm #2)
cut foreskin (ask.com)
Thomas Monson Flaming Red Hair (I'm #1)
circumsized uncircumsized five spots
chip kidd (google blog search)
when does lady montague die? (I'm #9)
meaning of sposita (I'm #s 1, 2, 3, 4 and Lady Steed is #s 5 and 6)
elder bednar (blogs ice rocket .com)
introducing preach my gospel FHE (I'm #1)
turtle soap dish (I'm #5)
"flaming red hair" monson (I'm #2)
lds general conference uncle fred story (I'm #6)
thomas monson "flaming red hair" "can do anything" (I'm the only one)
link: asiamex.com
difference between wicked the book and musical
steve + editorgirl
orson scott card "three types"
divvied up california vote*
monkeys high
circumcised (google blog)
"I hate dave eggers"
what is the electoral college in the summit /campaign (ask.com)
Heartbreaking work of staggering quotes "sleeping with someone"
how to dimensionally sculpt a pumpkin
turtle soap dish
famous benefactor
leatherby's caramel sauce
wicked musical why-is-glinda (I'm #4?)
"why 1830" mormon (#2!)
Long long time ago + wallpaper
supercuts sterilize combs (#1, baby!)
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (#3 on a Korean search engine called NAVER)
"i hate dave eggers" (#2)
thank you for all th e love (#2)
"After Happily ever after" lds songs (#1 and #2)
a splatting sound (#7)
fecetious (#5)
"pedro dumba" (#7--and don't listen to the man)
Russell Ballard October 07 conference talk
FOB junior (#3---and Mr Fob doesn't even make the top 100)
there will be blood daniel day-lewis PERFORMANCE
Elder David R. Stone of the Seventy
good decision by gorgias Walter Hamilton (#5)
serial book 2007 (google blogsearch)
How workable is the shower soap? (#1(?))
peanuts schroder a child is born unto us (#4)
lemony snicket (blogsearch.google.com)
"rick veitch"
uncircumcised penis (aol; #8)
"scott mccloud" (blogsearch)
eyring joseph smith prayed woods forgiveness
lds "redeem the dead" committee
Sub-Comptroller working with Chevron Texaco Oil here in the United Kingdom (still #3)
"Plato and a Platypus" (google blog)
orson scott card disfellowshipped
"chip kidd" (blogsearch)
bathroom soap container (#14--why do I get so many of these? and why do I rank so high?)
brian kershisnik (#6)
brian kershisnik woman walking dog
"which would be his finest hour" churchill
Dallin Oaks picture of catalogue good, better, best (#1)
golfer "arthur lees"
meat is murder wallpaper (spanish google)
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman quotes people are not all hitler (#1)
old navy commercial december 2007
vegetarians adolph hitler (the #1 hit also mentions he had but one testicle)
old navy commercial december 2007
dave eggers AHWOSG
Brian Kershisnik
thanatopsis compared to Because I could not stop for death (search engine: zoomtown)
illogic in the book of mormon
the term persuader used in in six shooter
moonpools And Caterpillar cd album cover pictures (Filipino Google)
"hermetically sealed" sedaris (#1!)
"broken arms" blogspot "first day of school" (I'm #1; TB's #3)
Robert J. Sawyer neanderthal parallax torrent (#1)
Widower Robert Fulghum (#1)
"harlan ellison" (via icerocket)
turtle soap dish (via aol)
andrew burr esq
elder oaks criticism wormwood
Penis profiles (#3 on aol)
Andrew Burr(Esq.)
andrew burr esq. (don't buy what this guy's selling, kids)
porous tonsils
marie asmond hair cut (#1 on Yahoo!)
"Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur."
masterba (#6 on dell---and what a way to end a post....)
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2007-12-31
2007-12-30
Elder Ballard Sez
(a svithe)
.En-her-gy Girl spoke in church today (and did a fine job, btw) (which makes three bloggers to give excellent talks this month). Anyway, she mentioned something my brother blogged about and that I had intended to svithe today, but nearly forgot: the apostolic call to blog.
Yep, the word's come down from Elder Ballard: we Mormon bloggers need to get the LDS viewpoint out on the Vital Issues of the Day.
I'm not much-a-one for a) New Year's Resolutions or b) blogging on the Vital Issues of the Day, but I think we can expect lots of silly talk about Mormons out there in the void come 2008. So my svithe/NYR today is this: I resolve to get into the fray in a wholesome, bright-eyed way, thus obeying a prophet of God and, perhaps, getting interviewed on a highly rated radio program where the host is a jerk and hates everyone. I furthermore resolve not to loose my temper or to stew about that &*^%$$# for ten to twenty days afterward.
I also resolve to stop seeking out monkeys simply to make dog collars from their tails before the ASPCA finds out.
Amen.
2007-12-29
Thvlog VII: Sleigh Ride
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Do to technical difficulties, viz, we left the camera at grandma's house, this video is much delayed. Due to other technical and weatherical difficulties, the image quality is bad even for YouTube.
C'est l'hǒliday season.
Do to technical difficulties, viz, we left the camera at grandma's house, this video is much delayed. Due to other technical and weatherical difficulties, the image quality is bad even for YouTube.
C'est l'hǒliday season.
2007-12-27
2007-12-24
The Eighteenth Five Books of Two Thousand Seven
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090) A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, finished December 23- When the Big O overheard me telling his mother that there was no way we would finish this by Christmas at our current pace, he sat me down and we read over one hundred pages right then. Voila. Done by Christmas.
Then we drove over to see a big local nativity originally built by a Sikh man for his neighbors and this year sponsored by the Soroptimists. As we drove we listened to Jonathon Winters perform A Christmas Carol on NPR. I like Mr Winters, but, much like these silly five-day events like Duel and Clash of the Choirs, it just didn't fly.
So! What I want is this: I want Peter Jackson to make a five-hour, five-day Christmas Carol with Ian McKellan as Scrooge. Tell me that would be awesome. One day for each stave. It would be the best thing ever.
Anyway. The book. It's good. Still good. I think I smell a holiday tradition.
The copy I bought for this year's reading
was copiously (and well) illustrated and the Big O enjoyed it. Maybe not as much as Peter Pan, but he can run you down the Christmas-Carol story and tell you all about Scrooge's change of heart and he'll tell you he liked the book.It was much more successful than when we read him Oliver Twist
(a gift from Nemesis--thanks, Nem!). But then . . . he was only about ten days old when we started that one . . . .two weeks
089) The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ edited by Mormon and Moroni, finished December 21
- Believe in Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ.
And if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for they are the words of Christ, and he hath given them unto me; and they teach all men that they should do good.
And if they are not the words of Christ, judge ye—for Christ will show unto you, with power and great glory, that they are his words, at the last day; and you and I shall stand face to face before his bar; and ye shall know that I have been commanded of him to write these things, notwithstanding my weakness.
And I pray the Father in the name of Christ that many of us, if not all, may be saved in his kingdom at that great and last day.
ten months and two weeks
088) Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë, finished December 13- Started reading this like a brushfire, then I had to stop to read some other things for class. Which is a shame.
Wuthering Heights is a great example of how much our understanding and use of p-o-v has improved since the birth of the novel--almost all its faults are directly connected to trying to filter the tale through the faceless Mr. Lockwood. But the art of the novel was new then and Emily was creative and clever in her attempts to overcome the p-o-v issues she ran into.
Here are some topnotch words on the novel from Emily's sister Charlotte:
Whether it is right or advisable to create things like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent to 'harrow the vallies, or be bound with a band in the furrow'--when it 'laughs at the multitude of the city, and regards not the crying of the driver'--when, refusing absolutely to make ropes out of sea-sand any longer, it sets to work on statue-hewing, and you have a Pluto or a Jove, a Tisiphone or a Psyche, a Mermaid or a Madonna, as Fate and Inspiration direct. By the work grim or glorious, dread or divine, you have little choice left but quiescent adoption. As for you--the nominal artist--your share in it has been to work passively under dictates you neither delivered nor could question--that would not be uttered at your prayer, not suppressed nor changed at your caprice. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.
Wuthering Heights was hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials. The statuary found a granite block on a solitary moor: gazing thereon, he saw how from the crag might be elicited the head, savage, swart, sinister; a form moulded with at least one element of grandeur--power. He wrought with a rude chisel, and from no model but the vision of his meditations. With time and labour, the crag took human shape; and there it stands colossal, dark, and frowning, half statue, half rock: in the former sense, terrible and goblin-like; in the latter, almost beautiful, clothes it; and heath, with its blooming bells and balmy fragrance, grows faithfully close to the giant's foot.
two and a half months
087) The Faith of a Scientist
by Dr. Henry Eyring, finished December 7- First: note that this is a smaller version of the original book. The essays are unabridged, but there are fewer of them.
Second: note that Dr. Eyring probably attended church in my building, back when he was getting his PhD in Berkeley.
Third: note that I am glad this was a smaller version of the original book because it got to be a bit repetitive. It was good, I grant you, but, well, I get it.
Fourth: note that I read its little tiny pieces during my lunches.
Fifth: note that I checked this book out of the library belonging to the building noted above; note also that that library has lots of books I hope to eventually read (but no comics, alas).
Sixth: note that I recommend reading a couple of these essays but doubt you need to read them all in their entirety--just don't miss the moonmen.
Seventh: note that this book is ridiculously expensive and someone should reprint it. You Eyrings getting this message?
Eighth: note that this is the penultimate note.
Ninth: no more notes.
less than a month
086) Memos from Purgatory
by Harlan Ellison, finished December 1- If you have ever heard me rail against Harlan Ellison then you will be rightly surprised to see this book here--I mean, I've been working on The Other Glass Teat
for for four years now and am unlikely to ever even open it again, and here I am picking up--and finishing!--another Ellison book? Explanation?Well, it's in my class library, and I just happened to grab it to thumb through it and noticed on the back cover that it was about street gangs and, as I'm always being asked for more raw books, I thought I would see if there was any impressive violence in it. Next thing I knew I had read the last half of the book. Then the first half.
We own a goodly number of Ellison books and Lady Steed's always asking don't I hate that guy (yes) can we get rid of these books (no). Why? Half because if I ever do grad school I want to have the option of writing the anti-Ellison paper; half because many writers I respect are gaga over him and I can't figure out why.
A big part of what I hate about Ellison is how didactic his fiction is; he can't pick up a pen without preaching at me, and that drives me nuts.
Memos is autobiographical (and I believe him, as opposed to, say, Og Mandino
). Sort of like Hunter Thompson with the Hell's Angels, Ellison joined a street gang; unlike Thompson however, he actually joined a street gang--he took on a street name and took part in heisting guns and nearly killed a kid in a knife fight. In other words, he did something I would never even half-imagine to do. And no, I don't think that was good or admirable, but I feel like I understand him so much better now than I used to. I don't think I will start liking his fiction all of a sudden, but I did like this book--and it was definitely raw--about the rawest thing I have ever read. Or hope to imagine.Stay in school, kids.
ps: a few days after writing the above, I realized that this book is just as lousy as all Ellison's stuff, for all its merits. Like, notable, how in the end he pulls a moral-to-the-story out of nowhere (he loves morals-to-the-story); he then plops it into a preface as well. this kind of sloppy nonsense (and abject moralizing) is what drives me crazy about him.)
three days
....previously in 2007....
085) Fragile Things
by Neil Gaiman, finished November 30084) The Bat-Poet
by Randall Jarrell, finished November 29083) Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie, finished November 29082) The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman, finished November 21081) One Big Self: An Investigation
by C.D. Wright, finished November 19080) Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
by Hergé, finished November 16079) Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Spencer W. Kimball by Spencer W. Kimball, finished November 14
078) Abraxas And The Earthman
by Rick Veitch, finished November 12077) Gorgias
by Plato, finished November 10076) Bighead
by Jeffrey Brown, finished November 7075) Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889
by Rick Geary, finished November 3074) Summer of Love
by Debbie Drechsler, finished November 3073) The Borden Tragedy
by Rick Geary, finished October 31072) To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee, finished October 29071) Monster
by Walter Dean Myers, finished October 26070) Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, finished October 15069) Whirligig
by Paul Fleischman, finished October 15068) Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Silver Spider
by Robert Arthur, finished October 12067) Characters and Viewpoint
by Orson Scott Card, finished October 12066) Hybrids
by Robert J. Sawyer, finished October 6065) How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Orson Scott Card, finished October 1064) Downy Duck Grows Up
by Adda Mai Sharp and Epsie Young, finished September 30063) Humans
by Robert J. Sawyer, finished September 28062) Hominids
by Robert J. Sawyer, finished September 23061) Making Comics
by Scott McCloud, finished August 20060) Tales of the Black Widowers
by Isaac Asimov, finished September 14059) The Pearl
by John Steinbeck, finished September 11 and again on September 12058) The Dog Is Not a Toy: House Rule #4
by Darby Conley, finished September 3057) Brother Brigham
by D. Michael Martindale, finished August 29056) The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
by Isaac Asimov, finished August 27055) Ode To Kirihito
by Osamu Tezuka, finished August 20054) Polygamy Was Better Than Monotony
by Paul Bailey, finished August 10053) Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, finished August 7052) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling, finished July 24051) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J. K. Rowling, finished July 21050) The Ruins
by Scott Smith, finished July 13049) Favorite Stories
by Margret Rey, illustrated by H.A. Rey, finished July 12048) Criss Cross
by Lynne Rae Perkins, finished July 2047) Flight Volume Three
edited by Kazu Kibuishi, finished June 27046) Nobody Is Perfick
by Bernard Waber, finished June 14045) First Paragraphs: Inspired Openings for Writers and Readers
by Donald Newlove, finished June 12044) The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking, finished June 11043) Dune
by Frank Herbert, finished June 9042) The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
by Thomas Cahill, finished June 8041) The Roald Dahl Omnibus
by Roald Dahl, finished June 6040) Troll: A Love Story
by Johanna Sinisalo, finished May 31039) The End
by Lemony Snicket, finished May 23038) The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962
by Charles M. Schultz, finished May 22037) The Penultimate Peril
by Lemony Snicket, finished May 21036) The Grim Grotto
by Lemony Snicket, finished May 18035) The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde, finished May 15034) Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman, finished May 14033) Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006
by Chip Kidd, finished May 9032) Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë, finished May 7031) The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960
by Charles M. Schulz, finished April 25030) Devils & Demons
edited by Marvin Kaye, finished April 23029) Talk Talk Talk: Decoding the Mysteries of Speech
by Jay Ingram, finished April 23028) Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman, finished April 20027) The Long Chalkboard: and Other Stories
by Jennifer Allen and illustrated by Jules Feiffer, finished April 19026) Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis, finished April 19025) Frank
by Jim Woodring, finished April 12024) The Complete Concrete
by Paul Chadwick, finished April 3023) The Rumpelstiltskin Problem
by Vivian Vande Velde, finished March 30022) Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson, finished March 28021) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller et al, finished March 23020) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers, finished March 16019) Batman: Gothic
by Grant Morrison et al, finished March 13018) Wild at Heart
by John Eldredge, finished March 7017) Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid
by Megan McDonald, finished March 7016) 50 Professional Scenes for Student Actors: A Collection of Short 2 Person Scenes
by Garry Michael Kluger, finished March 6015) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda, finished March 5014) Frindle
by Andrew Clements, finished March 1013) Brain Wave
by Poul Anderson, finished February 27012) The Best American Comics 2006
edited by Harvey Pekar and Anne Elizabeth Moore, finished February 26011) Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer, finished February 15010) The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ edited by Mormon and Moroni, finished February 7
009) Lisey's Story
by Stephen King, finished February 1008) The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett, finished January 26007) Empire
by Orson Scott Card, finished January 24006) Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli, finished January 22005) Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh, finished January 17004) Superman Adventures Vol. 1: Up, Up and Away!
by Mark Millar, finished January 16003) A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson, finished January 12002) Understanding Comics
by Scott McCloud, finished January 11001) Galápagos
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