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My favorite Obama supporters are Rednecks for Obama. Check out the comments pages in the guest book. Love the rednecks and hillbillies too, especially these ones. Go Obama!

I've had my new ipod for a few weeks now and I have found Fresh Air, Book Waves, and well - oh, yeah, Naked Scientists . There are a few of these downloadable programs, but I want more. And some of them are hard to get a proper MP3 or other downloadable file format for them. So... does anyone...

I couldn't find a thread for August 2006 reads, so here we have it. Mine are: The Booker Book-Simon Brett The Information-Martin Amis Things Fall apart-Chinua Achebe Mother's Milk-Edward St. Aubyn On Writing-Stephen King Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert

When Walter Mosely writes mysteries, they're riveting, ringing with cool characters, dialogue, and plot. When he's writing a novel - a more serious voice takes over. The events may carry more tragedy, as the wheel turns on the innocent and the good. In his novel, The Fortunate Son, a young...

Does anyone remember a book about a fellow who writes a book which no one will read, even his friends, claiming that every time they start to read it, it causes them headache? Perhaps it is a fantasy of mine, but I think he also imagines potentiating this trait into a "killer" book. The guy was...

Did anyone else hear Terri Gross' interview of Bart Ehrman on Fresh Air(NPR) day before yesterday? Regarding his book entitled Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene? Scholarly fella from Chapel Hill(?) Actually, I don't know if the book is even out yet. Maybe someone with computer skills can post...

I'm dragging around horribly thanks to a dimwit bird that started a godawful racket at two AM! That stinkin bird never stopped until eight AM. I love hearing a bird chirp in the morning, I actually love birds. What was this bird thinking?? I need an ornithologist's help, here. I just want to rig...

Oops, I thought I was on my other forum for FIDDLERS! Ah, well, no problem, now you know something else about me. Also I posted BEFORE I introduced myself. I've just discovered these forums for all my hobbies and I've gone a bit mad on them, but I don't have the etiquette down, so please bear...

I can't believe I haven't seen Walter Moseley here. Am I just looking in the wrong places? He's so cool! The protagonists are SO likable despite often desperate circumstances, well I guess BECAUSE of them, huh? But the rich locale descriptions have Dickens so beat, the neighborhoods are just...