theredtamasrule

A Confederacy of Dunces. So far it's been a very funny & entertaining read.

Young Frank is awesome...saw it with my parents when it came out and I've been a fan of it ever since.

 

SEDAGIVE!!!????

 

What knockers. Oh, thank you.

 

Want to take a roll in the hay? Rolll, rolll, roll in the hay!

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jun 1 2007, 11:56 AM)

Heh. Yeah, here you go. http://www.ratebeer.com/beerimages/45621.jpg

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jun 1 2007, 11:45 AM)

QUOTE (1-0-0-1-0-0-1 @ May 31 2007, 10:08 PM) QUOTE (GhostGirl @ May 31 2007, 10:46 PM) Sweetwater Blue - I found it at Publix.  You guys would all hate it, but whatever.  Nice! Did they have the IPA too? Yes, and one called "Summer Hummer." They also had Sierra Nevada "Summerfest" which I had never seen there. "Summer Hummer"...not sure what it is exactly but it sounds like I want one...

Nora: a white Spanish albarino wine

QUOTE (Atomic.Feedback! @ May 31 2007, 02:30 PM)

And it will definitely be depressing to watch Hollywood ruin Silver Surfer.

QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ May 31 2007, 01:14 PM)

The first one was good but the sequels sucked.

Looks like our very own Bluegrass Brewing Co. in Louisville has cask-conditioned ale on Thursdays. I'll have to run down & give it a shot. Thanks for all the info also, never heard of it until now.

Sam Adams Summer Ale after this hot, sunny day.

 

The previous posts about chocolatey type ales made me think that if you like that sort of thing you owe it to yourself to try out the Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout...that one has great flavor & packs a punch! Good stuff.

Body Snatchers From Hell....truly a hilariously terrible Japanese sci-fi/monster piece of garbage. I don't think I laughed this hard at Blazing Saddles.

# of posts.

Armor & Sword

 

When I read Atlas Shrugged it shook my foundations and had a big impact on me and the way I viewed the world...some good and later on I realized some bad.

 

I went back to it a few years ago & tried to read it...and I wonder how I made it through the first time. Not that tough reads aren't worth it (i.e. The Brothers Karamazov) but slogging through that was too much. I understand what she was trying to accomplish but it's a tad impossible I'd say to shove philosophy down people's throat AND tell an interesting story at the same time. The characters are little more than excuses to rant and they rarely change over time: they're either good or evil and all those damn speeches...ugh. A rather flat piece despite it's length. She could have saved time and just published the speeches which are the whole point of the book anyway.

 

I've more enjoyed her straight up philosopy books like "Return of the Primitive" way more than her novels. I will say that her books are perfectly aimed at the young and their desire to be different and change the world. And while I think some of her ideas are spot on, I find now most are wrong and would lead to a hard & indifferent world if carried out to their logical conclusions...but not bad at all for those with money.

 

I look back at her and her life and wonder what she would be like if she ever had children or her husband wasn't a submissive drunk. She seems to me now a rather sad character...cold and unsympathetic. I think there was some serious psychological or sexual abuse when she was young in Russia, I see that in her sex scenes in The Fountain Head & Atlas Shrugged because they are more than a little masochistic and devoid of any tenderness.

 

 

Mandolin & mandolin family instruments...ok, well, any 5th-tuned instrument.

 

Used to play drums.