Recent content by Gilder

Making Money by Terry Pratchett. I greatly enjoyed Going Postal and hope Moist and the humor is as good as it was in the first one.

I ordered the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from the library and they came in today. My friend is lending me V for Vendetta tomorrow and I've still got the first two Dresden Files to read.

Aren't you the chap who started those recent threads? Isn't this rehashing the same topic over and over again?

I finished Going Postal. I rather liked it a lot, it's one of the better Discworld book's Pratchett has written. I enjoyed it a lot more than some of the later Death/Susan novels. I also read Animal Farm by George Orwell. It was pretty much what I expected from it, nothing more, nothing less...

About the same time we lost all our resources and wealth that made our economy stronger than theirs.

I love public libraries.

Well, I stand corrected. But I'm not aware it's affected things like I meant below. Yeah, what Randomnerd said is pretty much what I meant by it affecting things.

nMuRWRqpQXQ The girl lip-syncing for the first minute is really cute. I mean daaaaaaaaang.

Well good for the President for doing so. It's a minority that still has a large stigma and discrimination against it. While this wouldn't change my opinion of Obama either way, he gets some respect for it, even if it is a PR stunt and gesture. Not that this is really gonna affect anything...

I recognize maybe three people total from that list. This isn't that big of a deal. People die. Also, that list isn't from just from the last month, Salinger died in January.

If pressed to choose one, alternative would best describe it.

There goes one of the cooler guys in cinema. He did make exceptionally good villians. I'll miss the guy.

I finished The Dispossessed. I really liked it, even if some of the characters seemed flat, but Le Guin paints an excellent portrait of several utopias. Now I'm on to A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. I don't think I'm going to finish it, I'm not too far in, and the purple prose is...

Sonic Youth - Pacific Coast Highway

I have refused for a couple years now to shop at Wal-mart. They really bunged over one of their employees at the one that was in my hometown. Just despicable.