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K-S, sidetracking is fine by me, even welcome when it's related and well-informed. n.

I understand this completely, Shade, particularly as I felt the same upon finishing Wild Sheep Chase--that the author had copped out by not plotting, not resolving anything in the narrative, and not investing his characters with motives or social context. What led me to read Wind-Up Bird was...

The Love Boat was scarier, anthropologically speaking. And David Jansen was cuter.

Murakami's short stories appear periodically in The New Yorker and are free and accessible online for a few weeks. When I see one, I usually post a link.

Ooohhhh, that was Gavin McLeod!

Wasn't he on the Love Boat?

Let's see if I can adequately opine on The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle without spoiling anything . . . I think there are different ways to read Murakami's books. I've also read A Wild Sheep Chase and some of his short stories, so my experience is based on those as well. Some read his work as...

Moto as a politics/religion forum mod would be like: A. A kid in a candystore. B. A bull in a china shop. C. A powerhungry dictator on a desert island. D. A cruel and arbitrary god. E. Little baby Rembrandt with his first box of crayons. F. A sheep dog at trials. G. All of the...

Oh yeah, Ab Fab qualifies in spades. Another brilliant UK parody. Why is it that American remakes of these things always suck? They are neither barbed enough nor ugly enough. The Simpsons is about as good as it gets. The fact that it's a cartoon helps--no vain actors are worried about looking...

I don't find this scary at all, given that the biggest growth in drug abuse among US kids is in legal, prescribed drugs like Ritalin. That, to me, is way scarier. Varous mushrooms, kava kava, coco leaves, etc. have been around forever and nothing notoriously bad has come of it. Cooking meth from...

Sup? I thought you were asking who would like to join you for a meal. 'sup? Now, that's a different question.:)

written v. performance I love The Office—the UK version, which I think is infinitely funnier. It's, IMO, a parody—a distinct and favorite form of satire. Is there anyone who hasn't worked in an environment depressingly close to The Office? I don't know Armando Ianucci, but I'll look him up...

I honestly don't see the reason for this. I'm not attacking anybody, especially not Wabbit. I do refer in previous posts to the moderation of the board in general, as other members are. I think that's what this thread is about. The comment about Cheney and wabbits was a JOKE (Elmer Fudd . ...

I wasn't dissing Wabbit, I was dissing Dick Cheney!

Blimey, you think you can just barge in 'ere after abandoning the children, not sending me child support for all these years, an talk about this place like it's the local pub? Freya Jr.'s already an assistant manager at the L'il Chef by the Watford Flyover an all you've done is barge in here...

Ow, get that chick off me. Goth fashion is so booorring.

Crickey, look who's back from the dead. The vamp Freya! Ahoy there. As Dick Cheney said, "now where's that wascawy wabbit."

I meant to reply to your earlier post about spinning. Never tried that. Around me there are some specialty merino and alpaca farms that I buy from. Very good colors they have. But the idea of 'bunny-to-bootie' (what they call it at the county fair when you shear, spin, and knit) has always...

I've never heard of that. I shall look it up!

I alphabetize my main fiction shelves, but then I have a bookshelf with to-be-read and recently read books that get filed into the main shelves when I've finished them and have a chance. Also, if I have a lot by one author, I'll give that its own shelf, like Simenon, LeCarre, Waugh, Faulkner...