Brian's comments
(member since Mar 10, 2009)
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Have you read the graphic novel Fallout about Oppenheimer? I've been meaning to get around to it, and Booklist gave it a good review. If you're not all Oppenheimered out...
Ha, don't worry about me. Anything beats the cowboy steak houses my family used to drag me out to. Dockside had good beer at least.Unfortunately, most of the places in Oly that are especially vegan friendly also tend to be a bit small and crowded or otherwise ill-suited for book discussions. I don't see us crowding into Darby's drinking brass monkeys...
Sometimes I think I should hire out my services to make websites for some of these places...I love QB, just went there for the first time this week. But, yeah, I've seen it looking pretty crazy on weekends.
Fish Tale would be my vote, but anywhere I can get a beer is fine.
This is a photo essay about the transformation of the town where I grew up in inland Southern California from a largely agrarian community into a enormous housing-development boomburb. McCulloh began by looking at exploitation in the construction industry, but the project evolved into something bigger as the housing foreclosure crisis began in that area. Great B&W photography... There are a few preview pages on Scribd.
Yeah, I don't know why Alasdair Gray is so obscure here. He's won all manner of literary awards, Anthony Burgess and Will Self both describe him as one of the greatest contemporary Scots authors, Iain Banks' novel The Bridge is practically an homage to Lanark, and yet Gray's relatively unknown in the US.A few unrelated graphic novels...
Several of Alasdair Gray's books include his artwork, mostly illustrated frontispieces and illuminated capitals. The Amazon preview for Ten Tales Tall & True shows a bit of the artwork. Lanark: A Life in Four Books is his best work, both in terms of writing and art, but I can't find any decent images online. This site is the closest I came up with...
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
How about ...Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
Yeah, I live near the library, at 10th and Adams, across from the new WSECU parking structure.
Sizizis is on 4th, between Cicada Restaurant and Lit Fuse Tattoo, just kitty-corner from where they're building the new city hall. It doesn't yet have much in the way of obvious signage, but it's the dark, foreboding place with the garland of dead foliage hanging over the facade (Not that I'm going to be at Girlycon, but Sizizis is the place I often go to read when I can't sleep in the wee hours, so it's kinda my second living room...).
