Interesting WWII history.

The guy started ASA, my old unit.

You talking about your dick on here again ????? A soft apparatus ???? lol

LAST WORDS by George Carlin.

A favorite quote from his 1988 HBO show, What Am I Doing in New Jersey?
It’s the old American double standard. And of course we’re founded on the double standard. That’s our history. This country was founded by slave owners WHO WANTED TO BE FREE! So they killed a lot of English white people in order to continue owning their black African people so they could kill the red Indian people and move west to steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving them a place for their planes to take off and drop nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese people. You know what the motto of this country oughtta be? You give us a colour — WE’LL WIPE IT OUT!

A real American like George Carlin would never spell color with a u, ya Canuck bastard.

Ooops, eh!

THERESE RAQUIN by Emile Zola

^ That's a class-A pot-boiler. Classy and sleazy all at the same time.

I'm reading THE MASTER SWITCH by Tim Wu.

I'm reading the Zola novel because it was deemed pornographic by 1867 standards for passages such as:
"From the very first kiss she showed herself adept in the arts of love. Her unsated body threw itself frantically into pleasure; she was emerging as if from a dream, she was being born into passion.”

::wanking banana::

How do you get this thing to work?

Enjoyed reading HOW TO LOSE WWII: BAD MISTAKES OF THE GOOD WAR (Fawcett).

THE READER (Bernhard Schlink).

I just started reading "A Song of Fire and Ice: A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin. Its quite good for the genre. I havn't read a decent fantasy novel in a while and so far this one is holding my attention quite well.

I have been watching the series. Found this wiki site from fans of the book. Stay away from it if you don't want the stories ruined.

I'm reading the second book in the series now. The dwarf character Tyrion "the Imp" Lannister just keep getting better and better. No matter how much the author directs the reader to hate the Lannisters I can't help but like the Imp. He funny, glib, never turns down a meal or passes up a whore. In one scene a foreign whore tells the Imp that in the lands she comes from sexual pleasure is a gift of the gods to be learned and practiced. Tyrion tells her if someone had told him sooner that he could pray with his cock he'd have been a much more religious man.

I'm watching the series now on HBO.

Since we've been talking about it in the other thread:



No matter how many times I read it, it's fscking gold. Give it a shot.

Ha! Love that video. I have it saved on my cell phone to pull out whenever somebody at work asks me a question that they should have learned about on their own. I try to stop before the parts about spinning rims and deodorant though.

Thx, Fiend! I hadn't seen that.

And Hell Followed With It-Bonar Menninger

About the 1966 F5 tornado that went through the middle of Topeka, Kansas. Left Joplinesque damage but through a narrower path. People reported seeing a 1959 Pontiac Bonneville floating 100 feet in the air, a car perched in a second story apartment, cases of unopened pop bottles that were completely drained, a VW Beetle lodged in a crotch in a tree, limbs from a Osage orange tree flying down the hallway of a Washburn University building, a 20 foot I beam twisted like a corkscrew and then bent into a horseshoe, another VW Beetle flattened to less than a foot in height and buried under what used to be Rice Hall on the campus of Washburn, a baseball glove that was in one guy's car was found in a front yard though the car doors were closed and the windows unbroken, two men looked out the window on the tenth floor of a building in downtown and saw an entire cottonwood tree outside their window, mannequins from a downtown department store thrown through car windshields, one man was crushed to death by a 10 foot metal culvert dropped on him, one woman got out of the wreckage of her home to see her neighbor walking across the street to check on her-the neighbor had a compound fracture in her left leg with the bone sticking out of the leg but she was unaware of it until it was pointed out to her, a piece of wood the size of a ruler was driven through a porcelain bathtub, a Brittany pup was found in a field 15 miles away and returned to it's owner, a towel driven through an apartment door, a pickup wrapped around a tree so tightly that the tailgate and front bumper overlapped, a brickbat was driven through a car door, and another 20 foot steel I beam carried two blocks and dropped between adjacent two story houses then turned horizontally to shoot through a second floor window: an eight foot fluorescent light fixture was still attached to the beam and the bulbs were unbroken. There were also cases reported where the outlines of where people had taken cover in basements were silhouetted Pompeii like as the only part of the foundation not covered in mud and roofing tar.

The tornado was notable for two things. Topeka city emergency department defied a national Civil Defense decree that civil defense sirens were to be sounded only in the case of nuclear attack and sounded them for the tornado. The relatively small loss of life versus the incredible amount of damage inflicted resulted in a change of policy involving the sounding of civil defense sirens.

Also without this tornado Bill Kurtis would be a practicing lawyer instead of a broadcaster. He had been offered a job in Wichita contingent upon his passing the bar and was only working at WIBW that day as a fill in for a fellow anchorman who wanted to start his vacation a day early. He had figured that a law degree offered a better chance at a high paying job than television work in low and mid markets but a station in Chicago got a hold of footage of his coverage of the tornado and offered him a job anchoring so he took it instead of the bar.

LET'S GET LOST: ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT WIDE OPEN (Craig Nelson)
Nelson visited China, Egypt, Indonesia, India, Peru, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Fiji, and a few other places.

Another break for Bill Kurtis were the Manson trials which other more senior reporters turned down.

Or so he said in a recent show about his experiences at the Manson trials.

I just finished the 3rd book. the 3 books I've read so far are over 1800 pages in PDF. The 4th book has almost 800. There still 3 more books to be published. Its been like 4 years since the last book and the next one gets pubished next month. I regret having started reading this series only because I like the characters so much. If you like or need closure I'd pass on this series for another 10 years or so.

good read so far.and hopefully tomorrow this will come in and ill start cracking on it:



update finished dead days and want more so ill have to order the next installment.still no sneakerfreaker in the mail.

Wishful Drinking (Carrie Fisher)

"Wild Fermentation" by Sandor Ellix Katz

http://www.wildfermentation.com/

Its about making live culture foods at home. Most of the stuff I'm too lazy to try but the Sauerkraut, Kimchi and pickle recipes look easy enough to try. The last time I had real sour pickles was when I was a kid visiting family in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

still reading this compilation of sneaker freakers they turned into a book.about half way through and enjoying it very much.wouldve finished it awhile back but cuz of the heat i really didnt feel like reading that much.

this should be here in the next week or so.

Rampo short stories.

I've been re-reading Robert Aspirin's MYTH Adventures series. Its fantasy based satire and humor. Total Junk Food light reading. I havn't read these books in about 10 years. I was laughing my ass off because I'd forgotten about the mob in the the series. The mob is run by Don Bruce the Fairy God Father.

The last book I bought was Mobsters in our Midst by William Ouseley about the Kansas City mob, specifically Nick Civella. I'll probably wait until the start of next week when I'm camping out at the lake to start into it though.

Heroin Diaries by NIkki Sixx. Very demented and depressing stuff.

I've read a couple books on Bee Keeping in the last couple weeks and started to read some of the online information. I was fascinated by learning about how bees are kept and even more interested in the different opinions/facts being stated about the problems with bee keeping such as the debates over using medications and feeding syrup to the Hives. It was also interesting to see that many new bee keepers are encouraged to buy what are essentially bee stock that has been inbred from a small number of professional breeders rather than breeding their own queens or trying to catch and breed local feral bees which have more genetic diversity and are naturally immune to many diseases and acclimated to the local environment.

A plea for bees: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dennis_vanengelsdorp_a_plea_for_bees.html

Fiend, you saw the PBS documentary about the bee plague? I watched it awhile back on TV and liked it, even though I could care less about bees - just a general interest in nature I never really follow through on.

If you have the patience while sitting at your computer, there's a link you can watch the whole thing online: Click

Churchill, Hitler, And The Unnecessary War by Pat Buchanan great book.

When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Masson and McCarthy).

Sure it isn't about the chicks leaving your dijon dungeon??

Enjoyed reading MILLIONAIRE: THE PHILANDERER, GAMBLER, AND DUELIST WHO INVENTED MODERN FINANCE by Janet Gleeson.

The Book of Vice (Peter Sagal)
From page 7….
On Jack Ryan, the perfectly haired onetime Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois:
Mr. Ryan had to drop out of the race in the spring of 2004 when a judge released papers filed in his divorce from Star Trek: Voyager star Jeri Ryan. In her divorce petition, Ms. Ryan accused her then-husband of forcing her to go to sex clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris, and demanding that she perform obscene acts upon him in public. Ryan denied the allegations, saying instead that on just one occasion, he had escorted her to what he referred to as an “avant-garde nightclub” — so called, we assume, because public fellatio is so much the prochaine big thing. He says they didn’t like it, and left. Nonetheless, his campaign cratered, and with no other viable Republican candidates available to take his place, the Democratic nominee, an obscure state legislator named Barack Obama, all of a sudden seemed as if he might amount to something after all.

Now on Volume 17 of Eliot's 5 foot shelf

Aesop's Fables, Grimm's Fairy tales, and Andersen's Stories.

So far my favorite of the series other than the first volume.

I remember this. 7 of 9 being forced to go wife swapping. How fappable is that?

The Help. When my folks met in Casper, Wyo during WWII, my mom's BFF was dating dating a soldier from Memphis. They all pretty much hung together all the time until the war ended. My mom's BFF and her soldier went back to Memphis and my folks came back here. They stayed in touch, got together at least once a year. Similar career tracks. My dad joined the JayCees and their crony joined the Klan. Their huge house was built by Negro day laborers for a fraction of what it would've cost up north. And their daughters were raised by a Coloured maid. She was practically family. Practically. My folks used to talk about it...especially the last few years my dad was alive. I think it kind of embarassed him towards the end. The dynamics of the maid/ employer relationship fascinated me, but the closest
I've seen to anything covering this was Driving Miss Daisy. I think there's a lot of melodrama and artistic license in The Help, but I think a lot of the emotions are pretty spot on. I'd like to read the memoirs of an actual domestic instead of some white broad's estimation of how the help felt.

Not a bad read for fiction.

The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)

Arguably.
The latest (and probably the last) collection of Hitchens essays...

The Sea - John Banville.

Once done I felt like I'd just awoken from a strange dream.

Pretty high-brow stuff Blue. I dig Banville too though, the Irish continue to kick ass when it comes to novels, haven't read The Sea though.

Right now I'm reading H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Surprisingly immediate and grim but not as great as Island of Dr. Moreau I think.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)

Years ago I read his "The Untouchable" and enjoyed it. "Ghosts" left me a little cold but I enjoyed this last one because of the atmosphere he builds. It's a bit depressing but a good read.

The Untouchable looks good, based on the spy Anthony Blunt apparently. I read his The Book of Evidence and liked it and keep meaning to check out more of his stuff. Troubles by J.G. Farrell is another good Irish novel I read recently (Banville writes the intro).

Now I'm on to The Invisible Man by Wells. Good, fast-paced and with a lot more humour than anything else I've read from him.