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Open Letter. Don't

To whom it may concern,

whomever you are, stop leaving comments regarding colonoscopy preps, drugs in canada and anything else advertisey.   i find it distasteful that you google for bucks and drop your shit on my blog. 

thanks,
OM

My first Meme!!!

Culture Ghost, you wicked spatial abberation!  What do i do now?

A book meme because i've been tagged.  never done one of these, so here goes:

Book that changed my life:  i'm staring at our vintage of vintage shelves and wondering "what the hell do i read anyway?"  my life has been changed a number of times by words, i'd have to say, the first and most memorable time was young, very young, reading Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S Eliot.   I memorized the whole thing and was appalled as a young pup at the musical based on it.  Changed my life because I had the power of memorization at hand, and with that I could recite on cue anything and thus stun a 4th grade class with my power of speech.  It wasn't my own words, but hey, it taught me how to cite a source and be the star at the same time.

Book I've read more than once:  Cosmopolis by Stephen Toulmin.  I go back to it to make sure i've gotten it right.  A professor at UCLA mentioned it offhandendly.

A book I would take with me if i were stuck on a desert island:  Finnegans' Wake, James Joyce

A book that made me laugh:  Candide, Voltaire.  (this is figured out from my shelf.)  it's a play, and often really done badly, but for its time searingly funny.  like  Rowan Atkinson

A book that made me cry:  Birth of a Nation 'hood, ed. Toni Morrison...what happened to los angeles and the country after the Rodney King Riots.  (i lived in los angeles at this time.)

A book I wish had never been written:   Win 32 system services.  Rot in hell, microsoft.  This baby loves her Linux.  (and is willingly led there by the Otherh.)

A book I've been meaning to read: Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Orwell.  Because the Otherh really believes Orwell doesn't suck ass as a writer due to this heartwrencher.

I am currently reading: Being and Time, Heidegger (like always) and Triumph of Grace, Karl Barth.   a little comparative theology, anyone?  I get hung up on the German transl.  but generally find the tautological rhethoric of Heidegger and  Barth's transition down to Hitler rather stimulating.

god, i'm such a snob.

Tag:  Mithras and Mitdasein  because they will both proabably hate doing these things.