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Why would anyone want to live with screwed up people?
Isn't everyone screwed up? Since I have to share the planet with crazies, it would be nice to know how to deal with them more effectively than "bartender, another Bud Light please" :shrug:
Vince
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Someone with taste.
Vince
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I had to see if that really was a book title.
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Bay_Kat
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I got "The Wrecker" from the library and listen while driving to work
That's a good one, same series as "The Spy". Not his norm, but a great book.
twinoaks207
Having Fun!
Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees...
Just finished reading Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees, and Other Creatures Unique to the Republic by Robert Lanham. Absolutely hysterical social commentary with a main premise that people can be grouped based on their distinguishing characteristics or idiosyncracies. Chapters include: the Cube people (office folks beware), the Gag order (family), the Fashionista and the Image-Obsessed (loved the "gym people"), the Passionate, the Obsessed and the Kinky (???!!!), Oxymorons, Peculiar Hybrids, and Fish OUt of Water (Yanknecks was particularly amusing). The illustrations are black and white line drawings to illustrate characters such the "Skants" - "Women with Shapely butts who always wear spandex pants." Chaper 21, "the Lieberals" definitely invoked memories of many of our threads in Politics -- Bectcha you can put names to some of these folks!
This book is available at a local public library near you if you are in the Southern Maryland Regional Library area (or via Interlibrary loan if you are not!). The author also has written: The Hipster Handbook and Cyborgs, Libertarians, and People Who Like Vin Diesel -- "the first two installments of his ideosyncrological canon."*
I can't wait until this author decides to do a similar book on Internet creatures!!
Perhaps I'll email him to suggest some possibilities... 
(* from Food Court Druids' author note)
Just finished reading Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees, and Other Creatures Unique to the Republic by Robert Lanham. Absolutely hysterical social commentary with a main premise that people can be grouped based on their distinguishing characteristics or idiosyncracies. Chapters include: the Cube people (office folks beware), the Gag order (family), the Fashionista and the Image-Obsessed (loved the "gym people"), the Passionate, the Obsessed and the Kinky (???!!!), Oxymorons, Peculiar Hybrids, and Fish OUt of Water (Yanknecks was particularly amusing). The illustrations are black and white line drawings to illustrate characters such the "Skants" - "Women with Shapely butts who always wear spandex pants." Chaper 21, "the Lieberals" definitely invoked memories of many of our threads in Politics -- Bectcha you can put names to some of these folks!
This book is available at a local public library near you if you are in the Southern Maryland Regional Library area (or via Interlibrary loan if you are not!). The author also has written: The Hipster Handbook and Cyborgs, Libertarians, and People Who Like Vin Diesel -- "the first two installments of his ideosyncrological canon."*
I can't wait until this author decides to do a similar book on Internet creatures!!
Perhaps I'll email him to suggest some possibilities... (* from Food Court Druids' author note)
audiobooks
Nothing can replace a real paperback or hardback novel but if you spend an hour or so commuting to and from work you might like audiobooks ... it really helps pass the miles , before you know it , you're there ! Recorded Books is a local company in Prince Frederick and they have a program that is similar to Netflix except instead of dvds you rent audiobooks ... its called Recorded Books Unlimited ... Recorded Books, LLC
Nothing can replace a real paperback or hardback novel but if you spend an hour or so commuting to and from work you might like audiobooks ... it really helps pass the miles , before you know it , you're there ! Recorded Books is a local company in Prince Frederick and they have a program that is similar to Netflix except instead of dvds you rent audiobooks ... its called Recorded Books Unlimited ... Recorded Books, LLC
My brain didn't feel like going there with Dragon Tattoo, so I'm reading The Sugar House. It's by Laura Lippman and her series character is Tess Monaghan, private investigator. Pretty good read, interesting plot, takes place in B'more, so the surroundings are familiar.
I love audio books - listen while doing laundry, making dinner, crocheting - but only if it's a book I've already read.
If I haven't previously read the book, I get sucked in and just sit and listen, which kinda defeats the purpose of being busy while listening. Might as well have book in hand if I'm just going to sit and listen.
If I haven't previously read the book, I get sucked in and just sit and listen, which kinda defeats the purpose of being busy while listening. Might as well have book in hand if I'm just going to sit and listen.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
The Long Way Home
David Laskin
David Laskin
but a good read so far.. Thx