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#261458 - 08/10/10 03:58 AM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 09/19/05
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The Presidency of Franklin Pierce by Larry Gara.
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#261467 - 09/14/10 08:35 PM
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Porn Jesus
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A Spectacle of Corruption, by David Liss. By the same author I also read The Coffee Trader, a thriller set in the Jewish community of 17th century Amsterdam.
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#261469 - 12/24/10 01:42 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/07/05
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^^^ OMFG I actually have been dying to get that book! Have you ever read Class by Paul Fussell? Kinda a comedic view on status and lifestyle of different income brackets.
Btw I'm having a very Panzerific day.  Just worked out for free on a week pass at Sports Club (or whatev the fuck it's called) in Bev Hills, bought Christmas decorations at Z Gallerie for next year at 70% off, and bought 6 different salads at Fresh n Easy for $0.90 each because they expire 12/27. Also, I got my hair straightened for free as part of my friend passing her beauty school exam.
Reading This Side of Paradise by Steven Fitzgerald. KIDDING!! It's by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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#261472 - 12/24/10 02:03 PM
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Tranny Whisperer
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^^^ OMFG I actually have been dying to get that book! Have you ever read Class by Paul Fussell? Kinda a comedic view on status and lifestyle of different income brackets.
Btw I'm having a very Panzerific day. Just worked out for free on a week pass at Sports Club (or whatev the fuck it's called) in Bev Hills, bought Christmas decorations at Z Gallerie for next year at 70% off, and bought 6 different salads at Fresh n Easy for $0.90 each because they expire 12/27. Also, I got my hair straightened for free as part of my friend passing her beauty school exam.
Reading This Side of Paradise by Steven Fitzgerald. KIDDING!! It's by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
No, I have not heard of or read that one yet. I stocked-up on body wash (around 20 bottles) and shampoos (6 bottles) for the next year or so. Its good because I got buy-one-get-one free Axe shower gels coupons on eBay and Axe shower gel is like $3.50 in Target.
By the way, I got the Luxury book at Brooklyn Public Library. I can order it online and they deliver it to any library branch of my choice, I don't know if you have this kind of technology on the west coast.
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#261473 - 12/24/10 02:11 PM
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It's like the Emily Post of tipping. He relates his adventures hanging out and/or performing jobs where people are expected to tip.
It has two chapters dedicated to prostitutes, strippers, phone sex operators and other sex workers. His stripper adventure was in Las Vegas at the Peppermint Hippo.
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#261474 - 12/24/10 02:30 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/07/05
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^^^LOLz I worked night shift there on weekends. Yay Spearmint Rhino!
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#261475 - 12/24/10 04:54 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/01/08
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Was the Spearmint Rhino in your area named something else before. The one in Lex. Ky. was Solid Gold and I remember thinking what a strange name for a strip club. [SR] I still don't get the word play here or is there any to begin with.
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#261476 - 12/29/10 12:13 AM
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Porn Jesus
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Adam Carolla's book..... it's on audio book too.
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#261478 - 12/29/10 12:17 AM
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Porn Jesus
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Yeah for sure. I don't always agree with his political stuff. But a dope like me who knows nothing of cars can enjoy the merits of his Carcast just on the merits of his riffs.
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#261479 - 01/06/11 09:02 PM
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Tranny Whisperer
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#261480 - 01/06/11 10:14 PM
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Thanks for getting me curious enough to check. Seems you were right that there's no wordplay in Spearmint Rhino. The club opened in the mid-1980s as a supplement to the existing Peppermint Elephant Restaurant.
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#261481 - 01/07/11 03:39 PM
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Porn Jesus
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... I got the Luxury book at Brooklyn Public Library. I can order it online and they deliver it to any library branch of my choice, I don't know if you have this kind of technology on the west coast...
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That's called InterLibary Loan - ILL. Pretty much every public library system in the US participates.
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#261482 - 01/07/11 03:43 PM
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Porn Jesus
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 Franzen's Freedom.
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#261483 - 01/08/11 07:28 AM
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Porn Jesus
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I'm reading Bush's "Decision Points". As soon as I finish that I have Keith Richards' book waiting.
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#261485 - 01/08/11 12:57 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/23/04
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Let me know if "Fear & Loathing" holds up. I loved it 25 years ago. I'll read it again if I think it's worth it. Lately, for the same feel I've been reading Tim Dorsey novels. Same amount of high-jinx but less self awareness or self importance on the part of the protagonist.
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#261486 - 01/08/11 07:34 PM
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Tranny Whisperer
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It's like the Emily Post of tipping. He relates his adventures hanging out and/or performing jobs where people are expected to tip.
It has two chapters dedicated to prostitutes, strippers, phone sex operators and other sex workers. His stripper adventure was in Las Vegas at the Peppermint Hippo.
Just started reading this book with the chapter on Hookers and then went to the Strippers chapter and past the ShoeShiners and Toiletroom People and now on Cabbies.
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#261487 - 01/08/11 07:39 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/07/05
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Loc: NYC
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Were you saddened that the Toiletroom People chapter wasn't written as erotica?
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#261489 - 01/08/11 10:57 PM
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Tranny Whisperer
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Were you saddened that the Toiletroom People chapter wasn't written as erotica?
No, but it was interesting to know how big the strippers are about sucking money from the "patrons".
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#261497 - 02/05/11 02:33 PM
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Porn Jesus
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keith's auto's on the ipad, it's refreshingly not just about heroin, some of us kinda missed the late 60's london scene, bands that whipped riots up and the bits i'd never even have fathomed about basically the best riffs came by five-stringing a guitar like someone would use a slide playing banjo chords, but he'd pick after tuning into a chord-the rest of what made him legit was the first sony cassette recorders didn't have much ability to handle things, but the design basically served as an amp and distortion meaning shit like satisfaction/brown sugar were played into a defective recorder with an acoustic and the sound came out loud and distorded better than most of his plugged-in shit.
i'm biased, but it's killer if you like some history and keef.
and to cancel it out, ward just's new one on hiring a gardener who was one of the guys in the days the cia was anything but defanged. again, just, ford and amis are always going to end up selling copy to me. updike and mailer were clearly those guys to my parents generation in terms of having some real talent and selling enough books to swing and miss then just come out of nowhere like amis did a year ago, it's like when a pitcher turns 27 and show up in febuary with a changeup in the 60's and a 12-6 after living on a fastball and bad split for years and doing it well. talent tends to let one realize it's time to add a pitch and end up mastering twice that when he resurfaces.
throw in ross, and remember atonement's all ian will ever write, guy's too comfy contractually and clearly lacks pathos and a standard transmission the others are working with, but i suppose accords have merits. but if you're expecting independance day after the sportswriter decades apart, he's book-club and ford's can downshift and fire out rock springs, best short stories on the american west of modernity that's going to get done.
not much comes out now that's got the ego/risk those guys work within, when you're not afraid to miss or admit it's going to be some time between ideas of merit and have a few that fit in nicely after the rabbits in shit worth remembering, i'll take the chance of tossing the thing 24 pages in because it's just as likely to approach that greatness-kinda-line too.
oh, and sometimes paul auster amuses me, new one's redeeming after a while off the reservation of readability.
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#261498 - 02/05/11 03:00 PM
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Porn Jesus
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keegan and claude's seminal way to lose modern battles never did it for me.
alexander, genghis and allah's sword/walid in that order are the three with untouched records and just silly tactics given what it was like to supply a viable army when you're in fucking india and it's been just crushing everything outnumbered while arguably the greatest, certainly most generative mind in history was his west point. i think years with aristotle's student and then peer has to be the kind of thing that allows one to not take a pacific island or conquer gaul, but just fuck shit up until you're past where the world was supposed to have ended. then die younger than i am. caesar cried at his grave for a reason.
genghis never lost, and simply was like ali's best days in terms of just being so fucking creative and making the rest of the armed world look painfully slow and then terrified when fast-cavalry with a penchant for creating a sense of invincibility and fear. but he was just a jet vs.prop, when he died there wasn't much but competent horsemen without thought to controlling what was conquered and shit fell apart fast.
and islam wouldn't exist if that prophet didn't have a brilliant general that kept winning against odds until the momentum snowballed into turning huge amounts of people and land to change to a completely unthinkable religion had they been asked what the decade would mean to them. basically, no sword of god, the prophet's a footnote-unfortunately, we'll never have the kind of record the other two left. alexander's walsh, this guy's going to give us what early belicheck would have-greatness and a bunch of wtf's and garbled, untranslatable speech.
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#261499 - 02/05/11 03:11 PM
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Porn Jesus
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Keith Richard's Life, read by Johnny Depp in the car. It's interesting because it seems so real. Not the typical autobio. The disconnect of the memories, I guess. I get the feeling he brought in boxes of notes to himself on cocktail napkins, dumped them on the desk and said "you sort this out". It's very much in the Keith image.
Vince Flynn's Third Option on the kindle. It's deliciously bad. Pure intellectual sugar. No nutritional value at all.
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#261500 - 02/05/11 03:14 PM
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Porn Jesus
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The Last Duel. It is about the events leading up to and the last judicially sanctioned duel fought in France. Aside from having a tricky time keeping track of all the names I'm enjoying it. 
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#261501 - 02/05/11 03:18 PM
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Porn Jesus
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I'm reading Bush's "Decision Points". As soon as I finish that I have Keith Richards' book waiting.
better than a rock bio ghostwritten or tell-all after relevancy's left the scene, no?
then again, you're kinda a fellow fanboy-mick and keith are smart, we'll never get one from jagger but keith's what i wanted him to be-painfully honest and a lot more with it and cerebral than the world wants him to fit into role-wise. axl's the dumb asshole rockstar who was the first one worth hating, mick and keith's machu-pichu adventures aren't what dumb rockstars do, think about like, oasis, just being the biggest band in the world with the beatles off the map and willing to play in a bar free for hours when they're lost up a river to sleep somewhere. van halen or whoever needed m/m's in brown taken out. total faggotry. at least guns basically hid in indiana at his dad's house after ejecting for good like izzy, axl losing any contact with the outside world but beating up the tmz-types following him if he's in public well into his 40's. adler's unable to talk, and slash was their keef, riffs hold up and stradlin was better than richards had as a rhythym, lies is the last rock album i've bought more than once.
anyhow, compared to the hour and a half motley crue's salacious pulp warranted, i liked keith's and i'm not a fan of auto's almost as a rule.
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#261502 - 02/05/11 05:52 PM
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Porn Jesus
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Keith's was good, written in his voice and I especially liked reading how he got his sound with 5 string guitars, and how he spread it to others.
I read "Stone Alone" years ago and Keith's is immeasurably better. (And Stone Alone wasn't bad).
Mick's reaction has been amusing It's just that- a reaction. Mick's got nothing and really, no reason to write a book now. No one cares about his dealings with corporate sponsors. We already know how the music got made.
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#261503 - 02/05/11 07:40 PM
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Porn Jesus
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The public reaction to Keef saying him and Mick don't hang together is kind of funny. It's like folks think because they're in the biggest band in the world that they should be joined at the hip. But from the perspective of it being a job, you don't always get along with people you work with. Could you imagine going around the world a hundred times with those egos? I'd be wanting to get away from them too.
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#261504 - 02/05/11 11:06 PM
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#261506 - 02/05/11 11:57 PM
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