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  • #31
    Re: What are you currently reading?

    the Companies We Keep
    Amazing stories about 450 of Hawaii's best known companies
    By Bob Sigall and his students at HPU

    Oh.. and HawaiiThreads.com (this thread at the moment)
    sigpic The Tasty Island

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    • #32
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      Originally posted by dick
      The Book of Absinthe - A Cultural History. Fascinating reading, and good times. Rolling-in-the-aisles laughable situations. Good ol' Van Gough, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Degas, et al.

      One of the better quotes from Wilde:
      "After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."

      Alas, it's true.

      And that garbage they sell here domestically is a joke.
      I had never heard of absinthe prior to seeing that great slice of celluloid velveeta, "Moulin Rouge". Apparently its the same ingredients found in Lake Chernobyl, about as tasty, and about as healthy for consumption.

      Ah, the upside of addiction. If it weren't around to help cull the population, imagine the depletion of earth resources we would be facing now...

      pax

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      • #33
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        for everyone:

        can I suggest a GREAT book catalog? www.commonreader.com their website isn't much to shake at, but when if you order away for their cheaply-printed catalogs, the way they sprinkle each entry makes it all sooo tasty!

        pax

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        • #34
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          Green River Running Red by Ann Rule.

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          • #35
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            i've just finished "A Star Called Henry" by Roddy Doyle...a fictionalized account of the making of an IRA "terrorist"...brilliant...before that it was Doyle's "Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha"...a first person narrative by a 9 year old boy growing up in rural ireland as his parents' marriage disintigrated...also brilliant and a staggeringly vivid account of an irish catholic childhood, written by a grown man...
            Don't be mean,
            try to help.

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            • #36
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              Recently finished Rosa Say's "Managing With Aloha"; now for something lighter - Stuart McLean's "Stories From The Vinyl Cafe" - sort of a Canadian Garrison Keillor, these are stories from his CBC radio show.

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              • #37
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                Originally posted by MadAzza
                the usual stack of porn.
                Define "usual." In explicit detail, if you don't mind.
                With stick figures, perhaps, and arrows to indicate motion.

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                • #38
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                  or arrows and zeros to indicate other things...

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                  • #39
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                    Originally posted by kimo55
                    or arrows and zeros to indicate other things...
                    Or ones and zeros --- if you're into digital...(EEEP! Off-topic alert!))

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                    • #40
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                      yea. graphically, ones and zeros work, also...

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                      • #41
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                        ...and the thread takes a left turn into pilau territory...

                        pax

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                        • #42
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                          why deviate from tradition now?

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                          • #43
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                            Started reading "What do you care what other people think?" by Richard P. Feynman.....since finding out who da guy was in the recent trivia game question. Feynman reminds me of my husband!
                            Fukujinzuke! I've got myself in a pickle!

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                            • #44
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                              THE ODYSSEY
                              By Homer, translated by Samuel Butler
                              "An epic of Greek Mythology"
                              We'll see how it goes...
                              Life is either an adventure... or you're not doing it right!!!

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                              • #45
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                                I am currently reading WICKED: The Life and Timess Of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. It's pretty cool. It's about the Evil Witch of the West from Wizard Of Oz. After reading this book your perceptions on Wizard Of OZ will be slightly changed. I know there is a play called WICKED. I heard it's an awesome musical. I have the CD but the stage production is mostly in Chicago, New York, and I think Canada.
                                A Warrior does not give up on what he loves he finds the love in what he does.

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