Kenneth's recent posts

Recent public discussion board posts (showing 1-20 of 32).

. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Abject poverty & abject, obscene wealth.
. Where would you like to live? At the moment, wherever she is. Pretty romantic, huh?
3. What is your idea of earthly happiness? Emotional stability.
4. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? Manic-depression, worrying.
5. Who are your favorite heroes of fiction? Alyohsa Karamazov, Augie March.
6. Who are your favorite characters in history? Gandhi, Malcom X, & essentially anyone who devoted their lives to social justice.
7. Who are your favorite heroes/heroines in real life? See previous answer.
9. Your favorite painter? de Kooning.
10. Your favorite composers? Frank Zappa, Bela Bartok, Erik Satie, Scriabin, Aaron Copland.
11. The quality you most admire in a man?
Passionate critical thinking.
12. The quality you most admire in a woman? See previous answer.
13. Your favorite virtue? Agnosticism.
14. Your favorite occupation? The monk.
15. Who would you have liked to be? A surfer.

My life is a transitive verb. I need a subject and at least one or more objects in order to get through the day.

How did they get that picture of me? I'm going to sue.

The Bodyguard! Wow! Now there's a soundtrack just made for sweet lovin'.

Too late.

Yike!

I'm rather fond of Tristessa as well, Mike: its tenderness and vulnerability a likely, honest coda (or epilogue) to the excessiveness of some of the other novels.

I was thinking of posting Mer's photo on my profile & seeing how many requests I can get.

I'm only joking of course. But I'm only joking, Will, to get closer to your sister.

Yes, Mark, it will take serious efforts on the parts of both leaders and citizens to face and address the problem, & that's a difficult project to undertake if no one wants to hear bad news, if we continue to believe that we are entitled to our current standard of living. One can imagine a nation-wide project like that of the U.S. during WW-II, but it's difficult to imagine our politicians, at the expense of their approval ratings, or economists taking the lead. Perhaps, in the end, it'll be necessity that brings about change. Many voices however, such as Heinberg, Kunstler, Campbell, Deffeyes, Matthew Simmons, et al., believe that that'll be too late.

Will, you are very pretty.

I hate you for having that book. Someday it will be mine!

I recall loving many of these stories, especially the one set during the power outage. Based on your review, I'll go back and reread these & reconsider my paltry three-star rating...

I'm jealous you have the Char translations!

Wow

Impossible!

America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.

*chuckle*

But Oprah likes it, so it must be good...

Will do, Jamie!

Yes, but is winning an arm-wrestling match a priori possible?