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Live and Let Die 08/14 Dave is currently reading:
Live and Let Die (Mass Market Paperback)
by Ian Fleming
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A Confederacy of Dun... 07/07 Dave is currently reading:
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by John Kennedy Toole
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Dave's recent updates (rss)

August 20
6369 Dave made a comment in the group True NorthYour favourite obscure movie topic:
26185 Dave wrote: "Naked by Mike Leigh is just a won...more "
645979 Dave made a comment on Amanda's profile:
26185 Dave wrote: "You mean because the numbers lined up? Isn't that a cool feeling? Did you hear the Music of the Sp...more "
2766 Dave made a comment in the group The Haters ClubI hate everything that isn't smoking. topic:
26185 Dave wrote: "You don't inhale cigars. You puff on them. Now tell us more about this closeted waiter who tried t...more "
August 19
3113 Dave made a comment in the group Axis MundiBreaking the Silence on a Secret American POW Camp topic:
26185 Dave wrote: "Really, Rusty are you sure? Because I could have sworn you said you liked hippies. A lot. "
2766 Dave made a comment in the group The Haters ClubI hate when I'm bored and nobody talks... (AKA Alfonso and **** talk about movies) topic:
26185 Dave wrote: "Is this the John Woo film? "
26259 Dave read and liked Jenne's review of Breaking Dawn (Twilight Series, Book 4):

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
26188 Dave read and liked Jafar's review of Half a Life: A Novel:

"Quite unremarkable. I haven’t read anything else by Naipaul, and I probably won’t. I know I shouldn’t generalize from reading one book, but I do anyway. Methinks Naipaul is another mediocre Nobel laureate. (Jelinek and Mahfouz are the other exa...more "
1002888 Dave read and liked a piece of writing titled "Je Suis (a patchwork quilt)" by Heidi

"I am the Magdelene… carrying the glowing orb of potential near to me… and volleying it gingerly back and forth from hand to hand until the hands of my forebearers carry it into my soul. I am huma"   ...read more »
August 18
26188 Dave read and liked Jafar's review of Trainspotting:

"Fuck me insensible. Oh ya cunt, ya! Ah dinnae watch the movie, bit ma heid’s spinnin fae readin this shite, ah kin fuckin tell ye. The book’s no novel – mair a collection ay short stories, likesay, aboot a bunch ay Scot junkies. The cunts go ar...more "
Breathing Out the Gh... Dave marked as to-read:
Breathing Out the Ghost (Hardcover)
by Kirk Curnutt (Goodreads author!)
bookshelves: to-read
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Dave's favorite quotes

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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
Mark Twain

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"A purpose of human life is to love whoever is out there to be loved."
Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan)

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"Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me what makes skies so blue,
And I'll tell you why I love you.

Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
Tropisms make the ivy twine,
Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
Testicular hormones are why I love you. "
Isaac Asimov

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"For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder."
F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

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"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage."
Woody Allen (The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose)




Dave's writing

Poetry (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated 06/15/2008 05:24PM
description: For now I'm just going to post this one poem. It's the only I've written that doesn't make me wince when I reread it.
City Beat Stories (Literature & Fiction)
2 chapters   —   updated 04/16/2008 06:18PM
description: These are stories I wrote for San Diego City Beat's Fiction 101 contest (the best stories under 101 words.) The first one won an honorable mention despite its stupid title. The second was printed without a mention of any kind. BTW, if you want to know what a pataphor is, consult wikipedia. That's where I learned of them. Also, Pedro Edelstein is the name of my chihuahua/dachshund mix. Everything else is purely fictional.



Dave's groups (recent posts)

3113 Axis Mundi — 188 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
What turns your world today? Who turns your head? Where turns you off or on? Music, books, film, the person in front of you in the check out line, ...more
3660 Miniature Amsterdam — 125 members — last activity 19 minutes ago
A Club With Legal Stuff

18 +

6369 True North — 102 members — last activity 1 hour, 5 min ago
To discuss important issues, book-related and not. To talk about the things that matter most to us, the things that get us up in the morning, the thin...more
2766 The Haters Club — 362 members — last activity 1 hour, 37 min ago
Sorry Kids! The Haters Club is 18+ now.

It's tragic that in today's day and age that hate is so grossly undervalued. If hate is truly love reflecte...more

6252 IN GOD(ard) WE TRUST — 24 members — last activity 1 day ago, 11:03PM
a cubist fuckall of... well, to paraphrase sam fuller from Pierrot Le Fou, "a battle ground... love, hate, action, violence, death. In one word: ...more
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Dave's friend comments

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from Amanda
2 hours, 48 min ago

645979 Yep, that's the one! I don't know that he's EVIL, per se. But my sister calls him Satan. *sigh*

Hey, we both have pets by computers for avatars. The universe is telling us something (probably that the laundry needs doing--the universe is mysterious...)

The other day, I had 86 sent messages and 86 trash messages in my mindspring account, and I thought of you!

from Sarah
1 day ago, 05:22PM

193255 Oh, that's a WAY better solution! Suggestions? Do I ever! How about Kirk's book, Breathing Out the Ghost? If you like true crime, I also recommend The Monster of Florence. And I'm currently reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and enjoying it very much.

from Sarah
1 day ago, 12:24PM

193255 Uh oh. You have 60 friends now. Is someone gonna get the axe? (Not me!)

from Amanda
5 days ago, 11:26PM

645979 You are an OCD freak (I know from experience). Did you post that comment at 10:59 pm?

from Dave
5 days ago, 11:00PM

26185 I have 459 books on my shelves, 59 books on my to-read shelf, and 59 friends. I love it when numbers coincide like that. Ah, heaven.

5 days ago, 12:32PM

372363 Pedro is sleeping with a voodoo doll?

How sweet!

from Michelle
6 days ago, 07:47AM

512643 D. Russ! Where have you been? Off having a life or something?

9 days ago, 03:38PM

26511 They have a camera on a long flexible tube. I saw a behind the scenes on "Life in the Undergrowth." Have you seen that? It's great.

9 days ago, 02:18PM

26511 Now I want to watch it, again!

9 days ago, 02:02PM

26511 Did you like it? I don't know what my favorite part was--the dung beetle dung ball freedom drama or the extremely erotic snail love sequence.

from Yvette
9 days ago, 12:13PM

547791 Oh, sorry. That means "Thank you very much" in Hebrew.

Dave. Dave. Sometimes you need to use the powers of Google to help you along in a situation like this.

from Yvette
9 days ago, 11:49AM

547791 Toda raba, Dave!

from Yvette
10 days ago, 10:38AM

547791 Yeah, I suppose my avatars are strangely varied, stretching all over the place in subject matter. I guess they serve in expressing a small portion of my diverse interests/loves plus whatever else flits across my strange mind.

And yes you caught it, just being your normally observant self; my birthday was on the 7th. You’re keen like that. Yet another reason why I dig you.


13 days ago, 09:48PM

26511 Yeah. Impending thunder storm.

from Amanda
13 days ago, 07:26PM

645979 Yes, they'll notice. But I think that says more about them than it does about you...

from Amanda
13 days ago, 03:20PM

645979 How I entertain myself by reading your update feed:

I'm flammable!!!!

from Alfonso
14 days ago, 07:01AM

53674 Funny cuz my picture was completely inspired by Montambos!

from Amanda
16 days ago, 11:05AM

645979 Oh, stop.
No, you stop!
No, you stop!!!

16 days ago, 12:03AM

26511 I can see the photo. Can you?

16 days ago, 12:02AM

26511 Okay, I'll try it here. My counterpart to your avatar:



from Amanda
17 days ago, 01:03PM

645979 Fuck the lion! I'll hug you instead!!!!!

from David
22 days ago, 05:33AM

698433 That's so fucking cute I could puke all over the fucking place.

(I like that you have a chip clip on that kibble.)

27 days ago, 10:06AM

372363 Thanks D. Russ.
:)

Happy weekend!

from Amanda
07/14/2008 02:02PM

645979 Well, I see that happy endings only last about 24 hours now. All our sweet soap opera snuggling as turned into a fish slapping orgy...
Ugh.

07/13/2008 09:30PM

26511 Dave! That was incredible! I can't wait to show my chess club in the Fall. It will give them something to aspire to.

Now I wanna be a chess boxer.

from Amanda
07/13/2008 05:52AM

645979 Did you see him bite his knuckles? !!!!!!!!!! I'm finding it really hard to contain myself right now. That was the BEST!

Psyched about the top five! Hey, maybe we can put each other in our Alltel circles or something. ;) (I'm serious about that wink, by the way--it's not just a placeholder, it's an emoticon of truth!)


07/10/2008 04:00PM

372363 D. Russ...
Just saw your comment about the pm on sex talk. My last sex talk involved aardvark peen. You still in?

;)
Bells

from Jackie
07/09/2008 04:50PM

289556 Dave, quit teasing me about the book quiz. I am trying to let it GO, and not get dragged back in.



And I could totally whip you if I wanted.

07/07/2008 04:22PM

372363 Your dog is mad cute. Give him a scratch on the head for me.

06/23/2008 06:25PM

372363 You are most welcome for the laugh! Enjoy Dick while he's here... he's sure to morph into something else very soon. (I can't look at the pic for much longer. It makes me hurt)

:)
Not Dick,
BRMB



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